[AISWorld] IFLA IT and News Media Midyear Conference at the National Library of Iceland

[Frederick Zarndt]

*Call for Papers for the **2017 IFLA International IT and News Media 
Conference*__

*Collecting, Preserving, and Transforming the News – for Research and 
the Public*

*Dates__*27-28 April 2017

*Location: *Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn (The National and 
University Library of Iceland) Reykjavík, Iceland

*Conference website: *https://ifla2017.landsbokasafn.is/

*Organizers: *National Library of Iceland,**IFLA News Media Section 
(http://www.ifla.org/news-media <http://www.ifla.org/news-media>), and 
IFLA Information Technology Section (http://www.ifla.org/it)

*Theme & sub-themes*

 From printed newspapers to born-digital news, libraries and other 
cultural heritage institutions have a central role in ensuring future 
access to news content. This conference will examine issues and 
challenges in collecting and preserving the news and making it available 
to users. Do access and preservation have different prerequisites? In 
addition, the conference will explore how news media is used and 
transformed by researchers and the public. Can we recognize variable 
user needs? Do we offer the most suitable APIs?

Proposals should address the main theme and related topics, including 
but not limited to:

  * Users’ experiences with digital newspaper collections and their
    usability expectations
  * Case studies of patron services for digitized and born-digital news
    (e.g., management systems, reading devices, printout services, etc.)
  * How digitized news collections are being used in the digital
    humanities, by researchers, and by the public
  * The importance and possibilities of citizen science
  * Long-term sustainability planning for news collections and the role
    of institutional commitment in preservation and sustainability planning
  * How institutions make digital newspaper collections freely accessible
  * Rules, regulations, or legislation for mandatory deposit of news
    content, paper or otherwise
  * Legal deposit libraries offering access to in-copyright digitized
    newspapers
  * National Libraries co-operating with newspaper publishing houses in
    digitization, access, etc.
  * Data research that benefits preservation practice and planning
  * Changing collection building in a social media and online world
  * New methods for media monitoring
  * Harvesting and preservation of web-only news content
  * Issues around suppression of digitized/digital news content and take
    down orders

Other proposals relevant to the main conference theme will also be 
considered. *Note: *Papers from this conference will be considered for a 
special issue of /IFLA Journal/. All authors will be invited to use 
feedback from the conference to revise their work and submit it for peer 
review in collaboration with the /IFLA Journal /editorial committee and 
the conference organizing committee.

*Submission Guidelines*

Proposal abstracts should be submitted as an MS Word file. Proposal 
abstracts must be submitted by *27 January 2017*, must be in English, 
and should clearly include:

  * Title of proposed paper
  * Abstract of proposed paper (no more than 300 words)
  * Name(s) of presenter(s) plus position and/or title
  * Employer / affiliated institution
  * Contact information including e-mail address and telephone number
  * Short biographical statement(s) of presenter(s)

*Proposal abstracts should be emailed to all conference committee members:*

  * Minna Kaukonen (minna.kaukonen at helsinki.fi
    <mailto:minna.kaukonen at helsinki.fi>)
  * Edmund Balnaves (ebalnaves at prosentient.com.au
    <mailto:ebalnaves at prosentient.com.au>)
  * Mary Feeney (mfeeney at email.arizona.edu
    <mailto:mfeeney at email.arizona.edu>)
  * Örn Hrafnkelsson (orn at landsbokasafn.is <mailto:orn at landsbokasafn.is>)
  * Ana Krahmer (ana.krahmer at unt.edu <mailto:ana.krahmer at unt.edu>)
  * Kazuo Takehana (k-takeha at ndl.go.jp <mailto:k-takeha at ndl.go.jp>)
  * Kopana Terry (kopana.terry at uky.edu <mailto:kopana.terry at uky.edu>)

Selected presenters will be notified by *3 February 2017*. To discuss 
any matter relating to this Call for Papers, please contact the 
conference committee members listed above.

*Accepted papers*

  * Complete accepted papers should be 3000-6000 words in length and be
    an original submission not published elsewhere.
  * Complete accepted papers and accompanying presentation slides must
    be submitted by *17 April 2017*.
  * Final papers should be written in English.
  * The papers will be made available on the Conference Website and the
    News Media Section Website under theCreative Commons Attribution 4.0
    license.
  * Approximately 20 minutes will be allowed for the presentation of the
    paper.

*Registration*

Registration information will be posted on the Conference Website at the 
*beginning of 2017*.

*Important dates*

*27 January 2017 *Proposal abstracts due

*3 February 2017 *Acceptance notices sent to authors

*10 February 2017 *Start of registration

*10 April 2017 *Completed papers and presentations submitted

*27-28 April 2017 *Conference

*Please note*

The Programme Committee regrets that it has no funding to assist 
prospective authors and the submission of an abstract must be on the 
understanding that the costs of attending the conference including 
registration, travel, accommodation and other expenses, are the 
responsibility of the presenters of the accepted papers, or their 
institutions. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a 
special invitation can be issued to authors.

-- 
Frederick Zarndt
I
​FLA Governing Board
​
Coronado CA 92118
USA

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