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