Newspapers Collection Management, Printed and Digital Challenges/La Gestion de Colecciones de Periodicos, Desafios en Impresos y Digitales

by Walravens, Hartmut

• ISBN13: 9783598220395
• ISBN10: 3598220391
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-06-24
• Publisher: K G Saur Verlag Gmbh & Co

Summary

This volume offers presentations at the most recent events of the IFLA Newspapers Section (Santiago de Chile, May 2007 & Durban, August 2007). The Santiago International Newspaper Conference as the first of its kind, aimed at taking stock of the Latin American newspaper collection and analyzing current activities from the basics to sophisticated digitization and software technologies. Most presentations are offered in Spanish and English. This publication focuses on the key issues in newspaper librarianship - preservation and access - in which digitization is a very important tool.

Table of Contents

Preface
Digital libraries and added value in Chile	p. 1
La Hemeroteca Nacional Digital de Mexico	p. 25
Past, present and future of the Periodical Section	p. 29
Newspapers at National Library of Costa Rica: history and conservation	p. 41
The present past - the history of newspaper digitisation in Finland	p. 45
Digital historical newspapers online: prospects and challenges	p. 59
Google Digitisation Programme	p. 101
The evolution of the aboriginal presses in Canada	p. 109
Scanning eight million pages of newspapers - Challenges for the Dutch Digital Databank for Newspapers	p. 133
Digitization of old newspapers: software developments to enable successful conversion	p. 143
Cuban newspapers in XVIII and XIX centuries: conservation of unique existing issues	p. 153
Colombian newspapers of the 19th century : treasures and memory	p. 179
The California newspaper project: canvassing, cataloging, preservation, digitization	p. 207
Newspaper digitization in France: developments and strategies	p. 223
The collections of the National Newspaper Library of Guatemala and efforts for their preservation and digitization	p. 237
Diarios peruanos, joyas hemerograficas	p. 245
Los tres desafios humanos a los proyectos de la digitalizacion de los periodicos	p. 253
Bibliographic control of newspaper collections	p. 264
Utility and use of newspaper bibliographies when working out and setting up of reproduction projects	p. 281
Newspapers in school libraries' learning resource centres	p. 297
Preservation and digitization of Latin American newspapers in the United States	p. 321
Hemeroteca Digital in the National Library of Spain	p. 333
Alternative solutions for storing, archiving and preserving newspaper collections: the National Library of South Africa's recent experience	p. 349
Initiatives in Kenya for digitizing, indexing and preserving newspapers	p. 357
Strategies for increased access to older newspapers: the experience of Makerere University Africana/Special Collection Section	p. 371
Ipsissima Verba: The future of newspaper preservation in an age of epidemic URLitis	p. 385
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