<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-align: center; line-height: 19px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Georgia; "><div style="text-align: left;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">2012 IFLA Pre-conference Meeting<br>The Electronic Re-evolution - News Media in the Digital Age<br>August 7-9, 2012<br><br>Mikkeli University Consortium Auditorium<br>Mikkeli, Finland<br><br>We are pleased to announce the IFLA 2012 Pre-Conference Meeting "The Electronic Re-evolution - News Media in the Digital Age". The conference will be held in the Mikkeli University Consortium Auditorium, Lönnrotinkatu 5, 50100 Mikkeli. A complete description of the meeting, the meeting programme, and registration details can be found at the conference website (<a href="http://www.ifla2012mikkeli.com/">http://www.ifla2012mikkeli.com/</a>). Mikkeli is a approximately 250km northeast from Helsinki, a pleasant 2 3/4 hour train journey through Finland’s lake country. And, according to Wikipedia (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikkeli">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikkeli</a>), Mikkeli is famous for its champion bandy team and the Mikkeli International Music festival.<br><br>Bandy team and night life aside, meeting participants will learn from international experts about impact of the electronic re-evolution in the production of news and newspapers at large including e-delivery, crowd-sourcing, digital environment, and copyright issues. Experts from around the world will speak on topics which include<br><br></font></span><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• Newspaper SG’s Multilingual Newspapers: Study of User Behaviour on Multilingual UI<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• Indexing of large volumes of digitised church records<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• Readership of online newspapers by users of select cyber cafés in Uyo Urban<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• Licensing our digital libraries: Which conditions and how to employ them?<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• The co-operation and its conditions between a Library-collecting society and Publishers<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• The digitisation activity and the digital archive DIGAR of the National Library of Estonia<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• Managing e-Legal Deposit of electronic versions of daily newspapers in Germany<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• Comellus project - a step towards digital newspaper deposition<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• Electronic legal deposit for French newspapers: the BnF approach<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• Experiences from Digidaily – Inter-Agency Mass Digitization of Newspapers in Sweden<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• "Content, collaboration and aggregated connectivity"<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• Research as a strategic tool for a research library<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• Preserving News in the Digital Environment: Mapping the Newspaper Industry in Transition<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• Capturing multimedia news content<br></font><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">• The Digital Future.</font></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br></font></span><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">For further information contact Mari Kivinen (<a href="mailto:mari.kivinen@miktech.fi">mari.kivinen@miktech.fi</a>).</font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Best Regards,</font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Frederick Zarndt<br>Chair, IFLA Newspapers Section<br></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br></font></div><div style="font-family: Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">The Electronic Re-evolution is sponsored by<br><br></font></div><blockquote class="webkit-indent-blockquote" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 40px; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; font-family: Helvetica; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">National Library of Finland Centre for Preservation and Digitisation</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Mikkeli University Consortium</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Miktech Ltd</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">Digitalmikkeli</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">IFLA Newspaper Section</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">IFLA Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">IFLA Genealogy and Local History Section</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia">IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia"><br></font></div></blockquote></font></div></div></div></body></html>