International Newspapers Conference:Asia and the Pacific

About the Speakers

Hartmut Walravens
Else Delaunay
Edmund King
Majlis Bremer-Laamanen
Clark Stiles and David Adams
Henry Snyder
Geraldine Suter and Judith Pearce
Marie-Therese Varlamoff
Georgia Higley

Ross Harvey
Heather Brown and Andy Fenton
Colin Webb
Margie Barram

 

Hartmut Walravens

Hartmut Walravens

Hartmut Walravens is Director of Bibliographic Services at the Berlin State Library and concurrently Director of the International ISBN and ISMN Agencies. He is responsible for the National Union Catalogue of Serials (ZDB). He took his PhD at Cologne University in 1970, the entered library service and was deputy director of the Armed Forces University Library in Hamburg until he moved to Berlin in 1986. He was chairman of the IFLA Serials Sections and has been chairman of the IFLA Newspaper Section (formerly Round Table on newspapers).



Else Delaunay

Else Delaunay

Former responsible for the Union Catalogue of Periodicals, later for the General Catalogue of Periodicals and finally for the Preservation and Microfilming Office of the former Department of Periodicals at the Bibliothèque nationale de France. From 1987 to 2002 she has been a member of the IFLA Round Table on Newspaper, and since 2003 a consultant to the IFLA Newspapers Section.



Edmund King

Ed King has worked in the British Library since 1975. He has catalogued and indexed books in English and in French. He worked in the Preservation Service of the Library between 1982 and 1996, as Head of Selection and Preparation Programmes. Since 1999, he has been Head of BL Newspapers. His research interests include the Crystal Palaces of 1851 and 1854, and Victorian publishers bindings. The British Library Published his bibliography of these ( Victorian decorated trade bindings, 1830-1880  a descriptive bibliography / Edmund M.B. King ) in 2003.



Majlis Bremer-Laamanen

Majlis Bremer-Laamanen

Majlis Bremer-Laamanen is in charge of the Centre for Microfilming and Conservation (and Digitisation) at the National Library of Finland.




Clark Stiles

has worked at the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of NZ for 17 years, the last 8 as the Curator of the Library's published collections. He is responsible for the management of the Library's newspaper collection, preservation microfiliming programmes and selects the titles for Papers Past, the NLNZ's digital newspaper collection.



David Adams

David Adams

David Adams is responsible for coordinating the copying activity for the provision of copies to Library clients, microfilming, photography and Library digitisation programmes and projects. His areas of responsbility include : Image Services ( in-house photography and digitisation of collection material), Microfilm Services (in-house microfilming of manuscripts and archives material, provision of microfilm copies and managing the outsourced preservation programme for microfilming newspapers). In digitisation David is responsible for meeting project objectives for the digitisation of selected items and collections, setting digitisation guidelines, digital image quality and processes for storage and access, and the investigation and selection of copying technologies.



Henry L Snyder

Henry Snyder

Henry L. Snyder received his bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley and then spent eight years in the business world in Oakland and San Francisco. He returned to UCB where he received his master's and doctoral degrees. His first teaching position was at the University of Kansas where he remained for sixteen years. While there he also served the greater part of that time in the Office of Research Administration, the last seven years as Dean. He established a summer program in England for Kansas and directed it for a number of summers. In January, 1979 he moved to Louisiana State University as Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and served there seven years. At the same time he took on responsibility for the Eighteenth-Century Short-Title Catalogue for North America (ESTC), which he brought to UCR and continues to direct. The project provides a valuable new research tool for eighteenth-century specialists and gives him a fascinating insight and introduction to the library world both here and in Europe. He came to UCR in February, 1986, initially as Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He subsequently resigned from that position to take over active direction of the ESTC. In 1989 the Chancellor created a Center for Bibliographic Studies which he now directs. In addition to the ESTC, now expanded into the English STC, which incorporates the period 1475-1700 as well, he also manages the California Newspaper Project.



Geraldine Suter

Geraldine Suter is project manager and chief editor of the Argus Index Online Project. A professional indexer, she has already published a printed index to the Argus for the decade 1860-1869 and was awarded an Australian Society of Indexers medal for her work on the first volume.


Judith Pearce

Judith Pearce

Judith is Director, Business Analysis, at the National Library of Australia, and was previously the Library's Web Manager. She has been instrumental in the development of a number of the Library's web-based services.

Abstract: Argus Indexing Online : historical newspaper indexing in a digital age.



Marie-Therese Varlamoff

Marie-Therese Varlamoff

Marie-Thérèse Varlamoff, Librarian General, has been working in the library field since 1969, occupying various positions, mainly at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, and taking an active role in various organisations:
- Secretary General of the Association of French Librarians
- Vice-President of the French Committee of the Blue Shield
- Member of the Register Sub-Committee of UNESCO "Memory of the World"
- Member of the Committee of Preservation of Archives in Temperate Climates of the International council on Archives
- Member on the Working Group on Cuban Archives and Libraries of the Social Sciences Research Center (USA)
- Director of IFLA PAC Core Activity since 1994, and co-organiser of the IFLA Symposium on "Managing the preservation of periodicals and newspapers" at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in August 2000.

She also launched a survey among National Archives and Libraries on the state of preservation of newspapers holdings in Africa.

Abstract: Preservation of Newspapers in the International Context



Georgia Higley

Georgia Higley

Georgia Higley is Head of the Newspaper Section of the Serial & Government Publications Division of the Library of Congress. Her past positions at the Library have been as Automated Reference Services Specialist and Reference Librarian, in addition to serving as acting head of several sections within the division. She has worked at the Library since September1990, arriving as an intern before her appointment as a reference librarian in the Serials Division. She is also active in the international library association SLA, currently as Chair of the Information Technology Division.
She holds a Master of Science in Library Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and an M.A. in English from George Mason University. She is a member of Beta Phi Mu, the library honor society, and Phi Alpha Theta, the history honor society. Her publications include a chapter in American Women: a Library of Congress Guide for the Study of Women's History and Culture in the United States (2001), and "College, Community and Librarianship: Women Librarians at the Western Landgrant Colleges" in Reclaiming the American Library Past: Writing the Women In, ed. by Suzanne Hildenbrand (1996).



Ross Harvey

Ross Harvey

Dr Ross Harvey is the inaugural Professor of Library and Information Management at Charles Sturt University's School of Information Studies, taking up his appointment in 1999. He has held academic positions in Australia, Singapore and New Zealand and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of California Los Angeles. From 1986-1987 he held the position of Newspaper Librarian at the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, and compiled the Union List of Newspapers Preserved in Libraries, Newspaper Offices, Local Authority Offices and Museums in New Zealand (Wellington: National Library of New Zealand, 1987). He has published extensively on newspaper history (focusing on newspapers produced in New Zealand during the nineteenth century) and on the preservation of documentary heritage materials. His current research is investigating the preservation of digital documentary heritage materials. Email: rossharvey@csu.edu.au

Abstract: Selection of newspapers for digitization and preservation: a user perspective



Heather Brown

Heather Brown

Heather Brown is currently Preservation Manager of the State Library of South Australia, and has a keen interest in reformatting strategies - particularly the field of preservation microfilming. In collaboration with the National Library of Australia and IFLA, Heather has recently developed microfilming training materials which have been distributed throughout the Asian Pacific region under the auspices of IFLA-PAC with the aim of better preserving heritage materials through high quality microfilming techniques. http://www.nla.gov.au/preserve/trainmat.html With a background in librarianship and vocational education, Heather delivers training courses in reformatting - most recently in collaboration with Andy Fenton (NZ Micrographics) for the Singapore National Archives.
Contact: Brown.Heather@slsa.sa.gov.au



Andy Fenton

Andy Fenton

Mr Fenton is the Managing Director of New Zealand Micrographic Services Limited, a leading authority in New Zealand in preservation microfilming and digitisation of heritage materials. Armed with extensive experience in the areas of film processing, inspection and quality control of microforms, Mr Fenton has a wealth of experience with planetary and rotary cameras as well as hybrid/microform scanners. He was invited to represent the interests of the New Zealand Micrographics Industry on the Australia/New Zealand Joint Standards Committee (MS/4) for Information and Image Management in 1996.
Extending his skill-set to commercial document scanning, Mr Fenton co-founded the Desktop Imaging in 1997; and the Heritage Materials Imaging Facility, sited in the National Library of New Zealand Building, in 2003. All three organisations have a strong focus on duty of care, standards and quality. Andy is married to Audrey (Co-Director of NZMS) and they have two children - Michael (6) and Kate (3). They live in Wellington, close to the family business, in Tawa.



Colin Webb

Colin Webb

Colin Webb is Director of the National Library’s Preservation Services Branch. Colin has worked as a preservation manager for the past 20 years, joining the National Library from the Australian Archives in 1993 as the manager of Information Preservation. Colin has a strong interest in preservation of digital collections and has written many articles, conference papers and presentations on related issues. He has a lengthy background in paper conservation and bookbinding, and in recent years he has developed his interest and experience in the preservation uses of reformatting techniques such as microfilming and digitisation. Colin is known as a leader in the field of preservation of digital library materials, and prepared UNESCO's Draft Charter on the Preservation of Digital Heritage in 2003, and their Guidelines for the Preservation of Digital Heritage.




Margie Barram

Margie Barram

Margaret Barram currently works in the Resource Discovery area of the State Library of Queensland (SLQ) where she is the system administrator for the ENCompass product from Endeavour Information Systems. She has been involved in a number of digitization projects, including Picture Queensland. Margie was SLQ's first staff member assigned to develop the library's internet activities in 1995 and the instigator of the library's original web site and QueenslandWeb service (the library's online collection of Queensland internet resources). Current projects include developing a options paper for two regional library services for digitization of their local newspaper and participating in the Manuscripts Queensland project which will implement Encoded Archival Description within ENCompass for the library's manuscript material. Margie holds a Bachelor of Science is from the University of Queensland, and Graduate Diploma in Information Services from RMIT (1988).

Abstract: The challenge - digitisation for both access and preservation: a Queensland case study


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