Conference on newspapers

The National Library of Australia is hosting an international
newspaper conference, organised jointly by the IFLA Newspapers
Section and the National Library of Australia, in February 2005. The
conference aims are:

The promotion of awareness of newspaper collections in libraries in
IFLA Member countries, and in Australia and in South East Asian
Countries.

    The need to publicise measures to promote access to newspaper
    collections

    The importance of newspapers for researchers of all ages and
    backgrounds

    To emphasise good practice for the storage of original
    newspapers

    To raise awareness of the need to copy newspapers

    To exchange information regarding projects, ongoing and planned,
    to digitise older newspapers.

For more information, and to register for the conference, please go
to
    <URL:http://www.nla.gov.au/initiatives/
        meetings/newspapers/about.html>

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    email. There should be no newline.

Sandra Henderson
Manager, Research
Coordination Support Branch
National Library of Australia
Canberra ACT  2600
+61 2 6262 1481
Fax: +61 2 6273 2545


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