The Electronic Re-evolution (IFLA Pre-conference)

Mikkeli, Finland, 7-9 August August 2012
The IFLA 2012 Pre-conference Meeting “The Electronic Re-evolution - News Media in the Digital Age” is held by the Newspapers Section, the Preservation and Conservation Section, the Core Activity on Preservation and Conservation (PAC) and the Genealogy and Local History Section.

It will focus on the electronic re-evolution in the newspaper field at large, including e-delivery, crowd-sourcing, digital environment and copyright issues.

Experts from around the world will speak on topics which include:

• Newspaper SG’s Multilingual Newspapers: Study of User Behaviour on Multilingual UI
• Indexing of large volumes of digitised church records
• Readership of online newspapers by users of select cyper cafés in Uyo Urban
• Licensing our digital libraries: Which conditions and how to employ them ?
• The co-operation and its conditions between a Library-collecting society and Publishers
• The digitisation activity and the digital archive DIGAR of the National Library of Estonia
• Managing e-Legal Deposit of electronic versions of daily newspapers in Germany
• Comellus project - a step towards digital newspaper deposition
• Electronic legal deposit for French newspapers: the BnF approach
• Experiences from Digidaily – Inter-Agency Mass Digitization of Newspapers in Sweden
• “Content, collaboration and aggregated connectivity”
• Research as a strategic tool for a research library
• Preserving News in the Digital Environment: Mapping the Newspaper Industry in Transition
• Capturing multimedia news content
• The Digital Future.

The conference takes place in the Mikkeli University Consortium Auditorium. For the complete programme and more information please see the conference website.