This meeting may be of interest to museums and other institutions holding
newspaper, manuscript, and other paper-based collections.

American Library Association Midwinter Conference Session

OCLC presents historic newspaper digitization pre-conference at ALA
Midwinter

All the News That's Fit to Scan: Increasing Access to Historic Newspapers
Friday, January 18, 2002 8:00 am - 12:30 pm
New Orleans, Louisiana

Over the last year there has been much public debate about the fate of
historic newspapers.  This workshop will describe and demonstrate how Olive
Software's ActivePaper Archive(tm) was used to process and create an XML
repository of digital files of nearly 500,000 articles and other items that
had been scanned from British Library Newspaper Library microfilm by OCLC
Preservation Resources.  The resulting search capabilities open up
affordable solutions to the problems of preserving and increasing access to
historic newspaper content for libraries, archives and scholars.  Speakers
will include Marilyn Deegan, Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford;
Ed King, British Library Newspaper Project; Robert Harriman, Library of
Congress; and representatives from Olive Software. Mark your calendars and
plan to attend this Friday ALA Midwinter pre-conference.  To register for
the workshop, please contact Lisa Stickley by email at [log in to unmask]

For further information on the workshop, please contact:

Tom Clareson
Digital & Preservation Resources
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.
6565 Frantz Road
Dublin, Ohio   43017-3395
Phone:  614/764-6071
E-mail: [log in to unmask]

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