16-22 August 2014, Lyon, France
Theme:
All we need is news - knowledge production and dissemination through news media
According to the WLIC conference theme "Libraries, Citizens, Societies: Confluence for Knowledge" the Newspapers Section open session theme "All we need is news - knowledge production and dissemination through news media" 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 of physical and digital content, access and use of digital and physical news collections, and similar fates.
A special focus of the session lies on the digitization of historical newspapers and the usage and handling of digital historical newspaper collections.
Subordinate themes include:
Other topics will be considered, too.
Proposal abstracts should be submitted to (yes to all 4!):
Krista Kiisa
Email: [email protected]
Mona Lokas
Email: [email protected]
Ulrich Hagenah
Email: [email protected]
Frederick Zarndt
Email: [email protected]
Selected presenters will be notified by 10 March 2014.
To discuss any matter relating to this Call for Papers, please contact:
Krista Kiisa, Mona Lokas, Ulrich Hagenah or Frederick Zarndt.
21 February 2014 | Abstracts due |
10 March 2014 | Acceptance notices sent to authors |
30 June 2014 | Completed papers and presentation submitted |
All proposals must be in before 21 February 2014.
All expenses, including registration for the conference, travel, accommodation etc., are the responsibility of the authors/presenters. No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation can be issued to authors.
The French National Committee and IFLA have worked hard to secure funds for Conference Participation Grants. Up-to-date information will be available on our Conference Participation Grants webpage.
Last update: 11 March 2014