Presentations (Newspaper Archive Summit)
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Item Why should communities care about newspaper archives?(2011) Nunn, Remmel; Hight, Joe; Garner, LaDonna; Rencher, David E.This panel discussed how newspaper archives benefit and engage communities, the problem of and solutions for lost content, and considered whose stories would be lost with content and for whom the stories are being saved.Item Digitization : successful projects and the challenge of born-digital newspaper archives [videorecording](2011) Halbert, Martin; Grotke, Abbie; Draper, Jim; Montgomery, Leigh; Zarndt, Frederick; Newspaper Archive SummitThis panel addressed several aspects of newspaper digitization projects. Jim Draper focused on a Gale/Cengage project to digitize 19th century newspapers in the British Library. Abbie Grotke explored the Library of Congress' newspaper collection and its efforts to preserve born-digital newspaper content. Martin Halbert encouraged the range of institutions at the Summit to engage in collaborative strategies for preservation, citing the Texas Digital Newspaper Program as an example. Leigh Montgomery discussed the Christian Science Monitor's archives, its philosophy on access, preservation, and revenue model and how those philosophies are incorporated into the Monitor's journalism. Frederick Zarndt presented issues relating to the digitization of historical newspapers and born-digital newspapers,including revenue stream and software challenges.Item Ownership and access issues [videorecording](2011) Gill, Christopher; Weissman, Randy; Stewart, MizellThis panel discussed the issues surrounding newspapers and newspaper archives from the perspective of the owners of the newspapers.Item Ownership and copyright issues [videorecording](2011) Reuben, Richard C.; Pinskston, CarolineThis panel discussed what copyright issues surround a project like the Dark Archives Project and how to deal with those issues.Item Saving time and money : how newspapers digitization can help scholars(2011) Allen, Robert B.; Reilly, Bernard; Cowan, Chris; Cox, PatrickThis panel discussed how newspaper digitization can help scholars save time and money as they research.