2024 IFLA International News Media Conference - Aarhus
This conference brings together librarians, scholars, and other interested researchers to share developments in the broad landscape of preservation, access, and use of news media.
The event is organised by the IFLA News Media Section, in partnership with the IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section, the IFLA Information Literacy Section, the IFLA Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group, and Royal Danish Library.
Dates
29-31 May 2024
The program will include presentations, business meetings, and social/cultural events. Details will be posted here in March.
Venue
Royal Danish Library, Aarhus, Denmark.
Online participation and presentation will be possible via Zoom.
The registration process is a beta, so please be aware of two things: A part of the process is in Danish. It might take some days before you receive a confirmation and see it in your Bank statements. We still have a manual step in this process.
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Conference themes & sub-themes
Libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions have digitized millions of pages of newspapers over the past two decades and have also tackled the challenges of preserving born digital news, broadcast news, and other forms of news media. As this work continues, scholars and the public have adopted new ways of using and interacting with news media in all its forms, and there is a need for continued instruction in the use of newspapers and news media.
The International News Media Conference will bring together librarians, scholars, and other interested researchers to share developments in the broad landscape of preservation, access, and use of news media. The conference planning committee has invited proposals for individual papers or panels that address one or more of the following themes:
Libraries' Roles in Preserving and Building Access to News Media
Preservation practices for all news media formats including print, born digital, and social media; community collaboration, library-publisher relationships, mass news preservation and access initiatives.
News Content in Education
Educational uses of newspapers & news media (for example, teaching with primary sources, teaching content analysis of news media, news literacy); providing context to historical and modern news collections; connecting news pieces to show different sides of a story.
Digital Humanities and Newspapers
Use of newspapers and other news media in Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship research, such as digital humanities projects that incorporate news content; exploration of AI applications in news research; news text corpora in machine processing and text and data mining.
As a hybrid conference, there will be a limited number of virtual presentations.
For questions about the conference, please contact Niels Bønding (details below).
The registration process is a beta, so please be aware of two things: A part of the process is in Danish. It might take some days before you receive a confirmation and see it in your Bank statements. We still have a manual step in this process.
Important dates
calendar_today- 9 February 2024: Proposal abstracts due
- 1 March 2024: Acceptance notices sent to authors
- Medio March 2024: Conference registration opens
- 10 May 2024: Completed papers and presentations submitted by authors
- 29-31 May 2024: Conference
Conference planning committee members
Niels Bønding, Royal Danish Library, Aarhus, Denmark - Host institution
Mary Feeney, The University of Arizona Libraries, USA - IFLA News Media Section
Ana Krahmer, The University of North Texas Libraries, USA - IFLA News Media Section
Kopana Terry, The University of Kentucky, USA - IFLA News Media Section
Anke Winsmann, Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Bremen, Germany - IFLA News Media Section
William Schlaack, The University of Illinois Library, USA - IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section
Valérie Glass, Association des Professeurs Documentalistes de l'Education Nationale, France - IFLA Information Literacy Section
Long Xiao, Peking University Library, China - IFLA Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group
Marcin Werla, Qatar National Library, Qatar - IFLA Digital Humanities/Digital Scholarship Special Interest Group
Please note
The Program Committee regrets that it has no funding to assist prospective authors.
The submission of an abstract must be with the understanding that the costs of attending the conference including registration, travel, accommodation, and other expenses, are the responsibility of the presenters of the accepted papers, or their institutions.
No financial support can be provided by IFLA, but a special invitation can be issued to authors.