<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><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; "><font color="#e63b7a">Deadline extended to February 28, 2013!</font></span></b></p><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 <strike>January 31, 2013</strike> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; ">February 28, 2013</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; font-weight: normal; ">. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by <strike>March 4, 2013</strike> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; ">March 31, 2013</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="line-height: 21px; font-weight: normal; ">. 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; "><strike><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><span lang="EN-GB">31 Jan 2013</span></strike><span lang="EN-GB"> <b><font color="#e63b7a">28 Feb 2013</font></b> Abstracts due</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "><span lang="EN-GB"><strike>4 Mar 2013</strike></span><span lang="EN-GB"> <b><font color="#e63b7a">31 Mar 2013</font></b> 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>