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Libraries as Preservers and Disseminators of Information Related to the Colombian Conflict and the Truth Commission Report

The Colombian armed conflict, which has lasted over six decades, has left a deep impact on the country and over 8 millio...

Testing an Inductive Mixed-method Computational Approach to News Frame Analysis: An analysis of Hungarian online reporting of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine conflict

Computational frame analysis is a highly contested, yet widely researched area of study, promising novel approaches for ...

Kitchen Gadgets: Newspaper Recipe Data and AI

Recetas de las Américas [https://recetas.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/] is a bilingual web project where users can view, brow...

Digitising and Giving Access to Newspapers in Swedish and Finnish via Collaboration Initiatives and Licensing Agreements

The National Library of Finland (NLF) offers digitised Swedish-language newspapers published in Finland until December 1...

Active and Retroactive Digital Newspaper Preservation

The University of Kentucky Libraries’ (UKL) long-running efforts to document and provide access to the state’s histo...

Surveying the Prairie State: Preserving Historical Newspapers through Partnerships, Public Engagement, Best Practices, and Institutional Realities

This paper considers how public institutions can develop a survey to guide collaborative efforts to reach common goals i...

Minutes of Meeting: Libraries Serving Persons with Print Disabilities Section, 19-20 March 2024

Minutes of Midterm Meeting in Vilnius, Lithuania on March 19 and 20, 2024 covering topics including highlights from LPD ...

Making News Usage Tangible: An Exploratory Analysis of Usage Patterns in the Texas Digital Newspaper Program

University of North Texas Libraries have been collecting, digitizing, and making accessible newspapers from around the S...

Annual Report 2018-2019: Library Publishing Special Interest Group

Action Plan 2019-2020: Library Publishing Special Interest Group

IFLA Journal. June 2024

The June 2024 issue of the IFLA Journal delves into the multifaceted roles of libraries in navigating contemporary globa...

Minutes of Meeting Professional Council 2 May 2024

Minutes from the 2 May 2024 meeting of the IFLA Professional Council

Management of Information Use in Libraries: Leveraging the Role of Media

The role of media in democracies stands as a cornerstone in classical reflections on the significance of a sector that h...

High Fidelity Web Archiving of News Sites and New Media with Browsertrix

This paper discusses how Webrecorder’s free and open source browser-based web archiving tools such as Browsertrix can ...

ICIPE's Contribution to Global Openness: Capacity Building and Information Literacy Initiatives

In the ever-evolving landscape of scholarly communication, open access, open science and open publishing have emerged as...

Safeguarding Scotland's Newspapers: A Collaborative Approach to Preservation and Access

This paper presents a large-scale conservation and digitisation initiative undertaken by the National Library of Scotlan...

Collecting Online Newspapers and Bypassing Paywalls

The Legal Deposit Office of the National Library of Finland has been systematically collecting articles from online news...

Minutes of Meeting: News Media Section, 8 February 2024

News Media Section's standing committee meeting minutes from February 08, 2024

Reading Between Bodies: Visual Media Literacy and Gender in Early Twentieth Century Newspaper Advertising

To support practices in growing visual media literacy skills, one possible research strategy is to employ critical theor...