Summer 2024

2024 IFLA International News Media Conference

Summer 2023

CFP for 2023 WLIC Open Session by News Media Section

Summer 2022

CFP for 2022 WLIC Open Session by News Media Section

Summer 2021

2021 WLIC Open Session

Fall 2020-Spring 2021

2020 Virtual Lecture Series, joint with News Media, Digital Humanities, FAIFE, and Copyright/Legal Matters

Organizer: Ana Krahmer
Organizing Committee: Spencer Acadia, Raphaëlle Bats, Laurie Bridges, Eric Chin, Mary Feeney, Ann Okerson Richard Richie, Kopana Terry, Deborah Thomas, Anke Winsmann, Frederick Zarndt

Theme: Fake News: Impact on Society

Lecture 1: 30 October 2020, 16:00 CET

Presenters

Phillip Russell, “‘Stop, Think, Check’: Ireland’s Be Media Smart Campaign”

Giuseppe Vitiello, “Assessing the Promotion of Freedom of Expression and Free Access to Information in Libraries: Implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goal 16.10 through the EBLIDA-NewsGuard partnership”

Moderators: Ana Krahmer, Raphaëlle Bats, Eric Chin, Frederick Zarndt

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Lecture 2: 18 November 2020, 17:00 CET

Presenters

Abby Moore & Catherine Tingelstad, “Nuanced Literacy and Fake News: Academic Librarians’ Role in New Information Environments”

Enrica Manenti, “‘Handle with Double Care.’ Memorial Sites, Teens, Libraries and Wikipedia”

Moderators: Ana Krahmer, Laurie Bridges, Mary Feeney, Kopana Terry

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Lecture 3: 21 January 2021, 17:00 CET

Presenters

Katharina Beckh & Vishwani Gupta, “Supporting Verification of News Articles with Machine Learning Methods: Automated Search for Semantically Similar Articles”

Katherine E. Boss, April Hines, Jeffrey Knapp, et. al., “‘It would be horrible if I printed something that wasn’t true’: Examining the Research Behaviors of Journalism Students”

Moderators: Ana Krahmer, Spencer Acadia, Mary Feeney, Kopana Terry

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Lecture 4: 8 February 2021, 16:00 CET

Presenters

Damien Wang & Sara Pek, “Strengthening Information Literacy in the Time of COVID-19: The Role and Contributions of the National Library of Singapore

Victor Mutyev, “News Analytics in LIS Education and Practice”

Moderators: Ana Krahmer, Frederick Zarndt, Rich Richie, Anke Winsmann

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2020 IFLA International News Media Mid-Year Conference
5-6 March 2020, Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliotecológicas y de la Información de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico

Theme: Capture and Preservation of Born Digital News Media

2019

2019 World  Library and Information Congress: 85th IFLA General Conference and Assembly

24-30 August 2019, Athens, Greece

News Media Section joint with Digital Humanities – Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group

Theme: Success Stories and Challenges: News Media Re-used in Research and by the General Public

2018

2018 IFLA International News Media Conference
18-20 April 2018, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Theme: When Risk becomes Real, Preserving News becomes Critical

2017

2017 IFLA News Media Satellite Conference
16-18 August 2017,Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden (SLUB), Zellescher Weg 18, 01069 Dresden, Germany
Theme: Relying on News Media. Perspectives for Long Term Preservation and Our Collective Memory
See: Call for papers (English) (German) | Papers Presented

2017 IFLA International News Media Conference
27-28 April 2017, Landsbókasafn Íslands – Háskólabókasafn (The National and University Library of Iceland), Reykjavík, Iceland
Theme: Collecting, Preserving, and Transforming the News – for Research and the Public

2016

World  Library and Information Congress: 82nd IFLA General Conference and Assembly
13-19 August 2016, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Theme: Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Current State of Born Digital News
See: Call for papers | Papers Presented

2016 IFLA News Media Satellite Meeting
10-12 August 2016, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
ThemeNews, new roles & preservation advocacy: moving libraries into action
See: Call for papers | Papers Presented

2016 IFLA News Media Conference
20-22 April 2016, Hamburg, Germany
Theme: Reviving the past and keeping up with the future – the libraries’ role in preserving and providing access to newspapers and news media 
See: Call for papers [English] | [German]

2015

2014

World  Library and Information Congress: 80th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
16-22 August 2014, Lyon, France
Theme: All we need is news – knowledge production and dissemination through news media
See: Call for papers
Papers Presented

WLIC 2014 Satellite Meeting
13-14 August 2014, Geneva, Switzerland
Theme: Digital transformation and the changing role of news media in the 21st Century
See: Call for papers
Please visit the conference website for further details.
Papers Presented

IFLA International Newspapers Conference 2014
4-5 February 2014, FamilySearch Headquarters, Salt Lake City, Utah
Theme: Start spreading the news!  Click here to register!
See:
Call for papers
Call for poster session proposals
Please visit the conference website for further details.
Papers presented

2013

World  Library and Information Congress: 79th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
17–23 August 2013, Singapore
Theme: Open access and digital resources
See: Papers presented

WLIC 2013 Satellite Meeting
14-15 August 2013, Singapore
Theme: Newspapers to the People
See: Call for papers
Papers presented

2012

World Library and Information Congress: 78th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
11–17 August 2012, Helsinki, Finland
Theme: Users and portals: digital newspapers, usability, and genealogy
Newspapers with Genealogy and Local History

IFLA 2012 Pre-Conference
7–9 August 2012, Mikkeli, Finland
Theme: The Electronic Re-evolution – News Media in the Digital Age

IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2012
11–13 April 2012, Bibliothèque nationale de France
Theme: Newspaper Digitization and Preservation: New Prospects. Stakeholders, Practices, Users and Business Models

2011

World Library and Information Congress: 77th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
13–18 August 2011, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Theme: Newspapers in the Caribbean, Central and South America: production, distribution and conservation. Cultural heritage and news media in the digital age

IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2011
25–27 April 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Theme: Newspaper in Multiple Scripts and Multiple Languages: Issues and Challenges for National Heritage

2010

2009

World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
23–27 August 2009, Milan, Italy
Theme: Newspapers in the Mediterranean and the evolution of the modern state

  • Satellite Meeting of the World Library and Information Congress: Stockholm, Sweden
    19-20 August
    Theme: “The Present becomes the past: harvesting, archiving, presenting today’s digitally produced newspapers”

1994-2008: Papers Presented at IFLA Conferences

2008

World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
August 2008, Québec, Canada
Theme:  The North American Ethnic Press

2007

World Library and Information Congress: 74th IFLA General Conference and Assembly
10-15 August, Durban, South Africa
Theme: African Newspapers: Access and Technology

2006

World Library and Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference and Council: Seoul, Republic of Korea

Theme: Newspapers of East Asia

  • International Newspaper Conference: Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
    17-18 May
    “Newspapers of the World Online: U.S. and International Perspectives”
  • International Newspaper Conference: Poznan, Poland
    “Newspapers: Resources, Processing, Preservation, Digitization, Promotion / Information”

2005, 14-18 August

World Library and Information Congress: 71st IFLA General Conference and Council: Oslo, Norway

Theme: Newspaper digitisation projects. Developments in the online availability of older newspapers

2004, 22-27 August

World Library and Information Congress: 70th IFLA General Conference and Council: Buenos Aires, Argentina
“Libraries: Tools for Education and Development”

2003, 1-9 August

 World Library and Information Congress: 69th IFLA General Conference and Council: Berlin, Germany
“Access Point Library: Media – Information – Culture”

2002, 18-24 August

 World Library and Information Congress: 68th IFLA General Conference and Council: Glasgow, Scotland
“Libraries for Life: Democracy, Diversity, Delivery”

2001, 16-25 August

 World Library and Information Congress: 67th IFLA General Conference and Council: Boston, USA
“Libraries and Librarians: Making a Difference in the Knowledge Age”

2000, 13-18 August

 World Library and Information Congress: 66th IFLA General Conference and Council: Jerusalem, Israel
“Information for Co-operation: Creating the Global Library of the Future”

1999, 20-28 August

 World Library and Information Congress: 65th IFLA General Conference and Council: Bangkok, Thailand
“On the Threshold of the 21st Century: Libraries as Gateways to an Enlightened World”

1998, 16-21 August

 World Library and Information Congress: 64th IFLA General Conference and Council: Amsterdam, Netherlands
“On Crossroads of Information and Culture”

1997, 31 August – 5 September

 World Library and Information Congress: 63rd IFLA General Conference and Council: Copenhagen, Denmark
“Libraries and Information for Human Development”

1996, 25-31 August

 World Library and Information Congress: 62nd IFLA General Conference and Council: Beijing, China
“The Challenge of Change: Libraries and Economic Development”

1995, 20-25 August

World Library and Information Congress: 61st IFLA General Conference and Council: Istanbul, Turkey
“Libraries of the Future”

1994, 21-27 August

World Library and Information Congress: 60th IFLA General Conference and Council: Havana, Cuba
“Libraries for Social Development”

1993, 22-28 August

World Library and Information Congress: 59th IFLA General Conference and Council: Barcelona, Spain