CFP - WLIC 2016 in Columbus, Ohio, USA IFLA IT Section, IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section, IFLA News Media Section

[Evviva Weinraub]

 *WLIC 2016 in Columbus, Ohio, USA *

*IFLA IT Section, *

*IFLA Preservation and Conservation Section, *

*IFLA News Media Section *

*Open Session *

*Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: *

*The Current State of Born Digital News *

*Date: WLIC 2016 August 13-19, 2016 (exact date of open session to be
announced later) *

*Venue: Columbus, Ohio (venue to be announced later) *

*Note that this will be an all-day, off-site session. *

*URL: http://2016.ifla.org/ <http://2016.ifla.org/> *

The IFLA 2016 theme, “Collections. Collaboration. Community,” touches on
highly significant elements required to make digital preservation of news
content possible. Access to large-scale digital newspaper content has
evolved how libraries and library professionals deal with multiple aspects
of their work, including civic engagement, technology, legal
considerations, and researcher support. Programmes and initiatives across
the world are devoted to digitising and preserving yesterday’s news. But
what about today’s news which is often created and delivered in a digital
only format? Everyone is struggling with identifying and collecting
material from the ever increasing and constantly changing sources in a
diversified media landscape. Failing to preserve today’s news not only
means losing large amounts of our cultural heritage, but it will impact how
tomorrow’s news is reported as the available body of information will be
incomplete.

For libraries and archives to maintain our mission to preserve and make
accessible these cultural resources, we need to collaborate within our
local communities and home institutions, between organizations, and across
borders, all of which require close collaboration with publishers
themselves.

This open session will reflect on how the task of continuously creating new
solutions for preserving born digital media is a collaboration between many
different stakeholders, some with competing interests. Page *2 *of *3 *


*The main theme of the open session: *

*Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: The Current State of Born Digital News *

Papers chosen for presentation should address, but are not limited to the
following sub-themes:

● Digital news media archiving and preservation

● Collaboration with news organizations

● Legal deposit of born-digital material – centralized or decentralized

● Challenges in web harvesting

● Institutional commitment to preservation sustainability

● Tools and technical infrastructure for preservation

● Environmental scans of the media landscape – from newspaper journalism to
social media

● Accessing and searching harvested materials


Other proposals relevant to the main conference theme will also be
considered.

*Submission Guidelines *

● Proposal abstracts for the IFLA Open Session must be submitted by *1
April 2016*, must be in *English or French *and should clearly include:

o Title of the proposed presentation

o Abstract of proposed paper (no more than 300 words)

o Name(s) of presenter(s) plus position and/or title

o Employer / affiliated institution

o Contact information including email address, telephone number

o Short biographical statement of authors(s)

● Language of the paper and presentation: English or French.


*Proposal abstracts should be submitted to (yes to all 3)*:

*P&C: *Alenka Kavčič - Čolić (E-mail: alenka.kavcic at nuk.uni-lj.si)

*IT: *Evviva Weinraub (E-mail: evviva.weinraub at northwestern.edu)

*News Media : *Niels Bønding (E-mail: nieb at statsbiblioteket.dk)

Selected presenters will be notified by *15 April 2016. *Page *3 *of *3 *


*Accepted papers *

● Complete accepted papers should be 3000-6000 words in length and be an
original submission not published elsewhere. A template for the paper will
be provided at a later date on the WLIC 2016 website.

● Complete accepted papers and accompanying presentation slides must be
submitted by the end of June 2016

● Final papers should be written in any of IFLA's official languages

● 12-15 minutes will be allowed for the delivery of the paper

● The papers will be made available on the Conference website and
eventually in the IFLA Library (http://library.ifla.org)

● All papers that are presented at the WLIC 2016 will be made available
online via the IFLA Library under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
license. Authors must agree to these terms by completing a permission form
which will be provided on the WLIC 2016 website.


To discuss any matter relating to this Call for Papers, please contact:

*P&C: *Alenka Kavčič - Čolić (E-mail: alenka.kavcic at nuk.uni-lj.si)

*IT: *Evviva Weinraub (E-mail: evviva.weinraub at northwestern.edu)

*News Media: *Niels Bønding (E-mail: nieb at statsbiblioteket.dk)

*Registration *

Registration information is posted on the conference website:
http://2016.ifla.org/

*Important dates *

*1 April 2016 *Abstracts due *15 April 2016 *Acceptance notices sent to
authors *30 June 2016 *Completed papers and presentation submitted

*Please note *

The Programme Committee regrets that it has no funding to assist
prospective authors and the submission of an abstract must be on the
understanding that the costs of attending the pre-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.

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