Agenda

Thursday, October 23

9:00   Welcome

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David Ferriero, Andrew W. Mellon Director of The New York Public Libraries
Bernard Reilly, President, Center for Research Libraries

9:15   Keynote—The Future of Newspapers

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A Conversation with Alex Jones, Laurence M. Lombard Lecturer in the Press and Public Policy Director, Shorenstein Center, Harvard University, and John Carroll, Former Editor, Los Angeles Times.

10:15   Session 1—Archiving and Access to News

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What approaches, new and traditional, have libraries and other organizations taken to maintaining and providing public access to news back files? Access models to be discussed range from collecting and storing newspapers in research libraries to Google’s News Archive Search.

  • Challenges in Preserving and Making the World’s Newspapers Accessible: A Status Report on the Digitization of News Back Files
    Denise Hibay, Interim Director for Collections Strategy, New York Public Library
  • If You Build It, Will They Come?  One Library’s Experience with Converging News Content
    Debora Cheney, Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian, and Head, News and Microforms Library, The University Libraries, Penn State University
  • Google: Search Discovery and Web Access to the World’s News
    Andrew Madden, Director of Strategic Partnerships, Google

Commentary and Observations
James Simon, Director of International Resources, CRL Global Resources Network

1:15   Session 2—Getting the News Out

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What forms is news reporting taking and what tools and technologies are used in gathering, publishing, and distributing news today?

  • How “News” is Changing in the Newsroom: Creating, Managing, and Preserving Text and Images in the Digital Environment
    Victoria McCargar, New Media Preservation Consultant
  • How News is Distributed: Repurposing News at the AP for Different Audiences.
    Valerie Komor, Director of the Corporate Archives of The Associated Press
  • How Citizen Journalism and Blogging are Decentralizing News Gathering and Reporting
    Sree Sreenivasan, Dean of Student Affairs and New Media Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Commentary and Observations
Bernard Reilly, CRL

3:00   Session 3—New Uses for Yesterday's News

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How do today’s academic, public policy, and financial communities make use of the news reporting of the past? What role does the record of local and world events play in analysis and decision-making by scholars, policymakers, and business leaders?

  • Text Mining of Electronic News Content for Economic Research
    Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Assistant Professor, Leonard N. Stern School of Business, New York University.
  • On Becoming a Librarian (Inadvertently): Mining News Sources for the Policy Research Community
    Gary Sick, Senior Research Scholar at the Middle East Institute and Adjunct Professor of International Affairs, the School for International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
  • What Old News Tells Us That Data Does Not: The Uses of News Reports in Monetary Policy Research
    Katrina L Stierholz, Research Information Officer and Director of Library and Research Information, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Commentary and Observations
Debora Cheney, Larry and Ellen Foster Communications Librarian, and Head, News and Microforms Library, The University Libraries, Penn State University

4:45   Adjourn

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Friday, October 24

Working Session: New Stewardship Strategies

Participants will identify the most pressing threats to the integrity of the journalistic record as the basis for future historical and policy research, and identify measures that news publishers, libraries, archives, and aggregators can take to ensure the survival of that record. Attendance is limited to the previous day’s presenters and to invited attendees.

8:30    Opening Remarks

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David Ferriero, Andrew W. Mellon Director of The New York Public Libraries

9:00    Discussion 1—Judging the Status Quo

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How well are today’s publishers, aggregators, and libraries preserving the journalistic record, or “first rough draft”, of contemporary history? What factors and conditions threaten the survival and integrity of that record?

Facilitators: Denise Hibay, James Simon

10:30    Discussion 2—Toward an Action Agenda

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What actions can publishers, aggregators and libraries take to better ensure the survival and integrity of the news record? What new models, partnerships, and investment strategies will best address these challenges?

Facilitators: Denise Hibay, James Simon

11:30    Conclusions

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Bernard Reilly, President, Center for Research Libraries