“On the Record” A Forum on Electronic Media and the Preservation of News

Event Logistics

Date: 
Thursday, October 23, 2008 to Friday, October 24, 2008
Time: 
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Location: 
New York Public Library, Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Contact: 
James Simon - jsimon@crl.edu

Conference Summary and Outcomes

Conference Summary and Outcomes are now available in CRL's Winter 2008-2009 FOCUS on Global Resources newsletter

Description

The pages of the world’s newspapers have traditionally provided a detailed record of the notable events and interests of the communities for which they were produced. Much of this “first rough draft of history” has been preserved intact for decades and even centuries in research libraries and archives. Today news is produced and delivered in digital media that are inherently dynamic and fugitive, challenging society’s ability to ensure the survival of yesterday’s reporting for future study.

“On the Record” will bring individuals from journalism and the news media, academia, business, policy research, together with those who map library strategies for collecting and preservation to explore these challenges. Participants will explore the myriad new ways in which news content is created, distributed and consumed, and engage in focused discussions to formulate innovative strategies for preservation and access to these materials.

Speaker Presentations

Speakers' PowerPoint presentations are available as PDF files below.

Debora Cheney slides

Panagiotis Ipeirotis slides

Valerie Komor slides    Valerie Komor presentation

Victoria McCargar slides

Katrina Stierholz slides

The Impact of CRL

Stories illustrating CRL’s impact on research, teaching, collection building and preservation.

CRL and Linda Hall Library partnership brings history of science to researchers' fingertips

Ben Gibson, Digital Initiatives Manager at the Linda Hall Library, discusses the fruits of the library's digitization projects with CRL.

Vanderbilt University digitizes Afro-Colombian oral histories with LARRP grant

The pilot project digitized tapes of interviews conducted by anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, and physician Manuel Zapata Olivella, often dubbed the “dean of Black Hispanic writers.”