<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 9pt; "><b><span style="font-size: 16pt; ">News for the future: Dissemination, harvesting, archiving, and retrieving</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 12pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 35.3pt; line-height: 21px; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; ">Open session at IFLA WLIC 2013, August 17-23, 2013, Singapore<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-indent: 35.3pt; line-height: 21px; "><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 24px; ">Sponsored by the IFLA Newspapers Section<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; "><b><u><span lang="EN-GB">Papers wanted!</span></u></b><b><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; ">Pl</span><span lang="EN-GB">ease consider submitting a short proposal to present during the </span><span lang="DE"><a href="http://www.ifla.org/VII/s39/index.htm"><span lang="EN-GB">Newspapers Section</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB"> open session at WLIC 2013 (</span><span lang="DE"><a href="http://conference.ifla.org/ifla79"><span lang="EN-GB">http://conference.ifla.org/ifla79</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">). Attendees at past open sessions have included librarians, archivists, digital curation specialists, publishers, researchers, historians, genealogists, and technologists. This open session gives you a unique opportunity to reach a world-wide audience of news, library, and technology professionals.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 11pt; line-height: 22px; "><o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left; line-height: 31px; "><u style="font-size: medium; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; ">Session theme</span></u><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: medium; line-height: 21px; ">: </span><font size="3"><span style="font-weight: normal; "><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; ">The</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; "> </span><span style="line-height: 21px; ">WLIC conference theme “Future Libraries, Infinite Possibilities” and the Newspapers Section open </span><span style="line-height: 21px; ">session theme “News for the future: Dissemination, harvesting, archiving, and retrieving” highlights the consequences of digital technology in news creation, production, and dissemination as well as on the post-dissemination fate of news such as preservation of digital and hard assets, collection management, storage </span></span></font><font size="3" style="font-weight: normal; ">of physical and digital content, access and use of digital and physical news collections, and similar fates.</font><span style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 12pt; "><o:p></o:p></span></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; ">Subordinate themes include</p><ul type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; "><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="text-indent: -24px; ">Production of electronic news media</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; "><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="text-indent: -24px; ">New business models for news preservation</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; "><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="text-indent: -24px; ">Collaborative news production and preservation</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; "><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="text-indent: -24px; ">Collecting digital media including e-delivery, web-harvesting, legal deposit</span></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; "><span lang="EN-GB">News metadata capture and enrichment including news industry standards such as NITF, NewsML, hNews, etc as well as traditional library standards such as METS, MODS, ALTO, PREMIS, MIX, etc<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; "><span lang="EN-GB">Digitisation of historical news and newspapers<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; "><span lang="EN-GB">Presentation of and access to digital news collections including crowdsourcing<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; "><span lang="EN-GB">Collaboration of libraries, archives, and museums in the preservation of news<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; "><span lang="EN-GB">Other topics will be considered, too.<o:p></o:p></span></p><h2 style="text-align: left; line-height: 31px; "><font size="3"><u><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 21px; ">Please note</span></u><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 21px; ">: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; font-weight: normal; ">Papers for the conference should be written and presented in English. Proposals should be no more than 300 words in length and must be submitted to Mona Løkås (</span><span lang="X-NONE"><a href="mailto:mona.lokas@nb.no"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; font-weight: normal; ">mona.lokas@nb.no</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; font-weight: normal; ">), Mazelan Anuar (</span><span lang="X-NONE"><a href="mailto:mazelan_anuar@nlb.gov.sg"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; font-weight: normal; ">mazelan_anuar@nlb.gov.sg</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; font-weight: normal; ">), and Sue Kellerman (</span><span lang="X-NONE"><a href="mailto:lsk3@su.edu"><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; font-weight: normal; ">lsk3@psu.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; font-weight: normal; ">) of the Newspapers Section on or before January 31, 2013. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by March 4, 2013. The full paper and accompanying presentation slides must be completed and submitted to IFLA before June 2013. </span><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 21px; font-weight: normal; ">The papers must be original submissions and not published elsewhere.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; font-weight: normal; "><o:p></o:p></span></font></h2><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; "><span lang="EN">At least one author is expected to attend WLIC 2013 to present the paper. </span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; "><span lang="EN">All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation, etc., are the responsibility of the authors. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, however, a special invitation letter can be issued to authors.<o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">Please disseminate and share this information with all colleagues who may be interested. Looking forward to see all of you in Singapore!</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><u><span lang="EN-GB">Important dates</span></u></p><blockquote style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; border: none; padding: 0px; "><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><b><span lang="EN-GB">31 Jan 2013</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> Abstracts due</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-GB">4 Mar 2013</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> Acceptance notices sent to authors<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><b><span lang="EN-GB">30 Jun 2013</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> Completed papers and presentation submitted.</span></p><div><br></div></blockquote><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="text-align: left; line-height: 21px; "><b><u><span lang="EN">Questions?</span></u></b><span lang="EN"> Please contact </span><span lang="EN-GB">Mona Løkås (</span><span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:mona.lokas@nb.no"><span lang="EN-GB">mona.lokas@nb.no</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">)<b>, </b>Mazelan Anuar<b> (</b></span><span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:mazelan_anuar@nlb.gov.sg"><span lang="EN-GB">mazelan_anuar@nlb.gov.sg</span></a></span><b><span lang="EN-GB">),</span></b><span lang="EN-GB"> or Sue Kellerman (</span><span lang="DE"><a href="mailto:lsk3@su.edu"><span lang="EN-GB">lsk3@psu.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">).</span></p><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div><div style="text-align: left; "><span style="text-align: -webkit-auto; ">Best regards,</span></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Frederick Zarndt</div><div style="text-align: left; ">Chair, IFLA Newspapers Section</div><div style="text-align: left; "><br></div><div style="text-align: left; ">Tel. +1.801.361.3204</div><div style="text-align: left; ">Fax +1.888.723.3204</div><div style="text-align: left; ">Skype frederickzarndt</div></div></body></html>