[PADG:1495] OCLC presents historic newspaper digitization pre-conference at A LA Midwinter

["Behler,Erica" <behlere@xxxxxxxx>]

All the News That's Fit to Scan: Increasing Access to Historic Newspapers
Friday, January 18, 2002 8:00 am - 12:30 pm 

Over the last year there has been much public debate about the fate of
historic newspapers.  This workshop will describe and demonstrate how Olive
Software's ActivePaper Archive(tm) was used to process and create an XML
repository of digital files of nearly 500,000 articles and other items that
had been scanned from British Library Newspaper Library microfilm by OCLC
Preservation Resources.  The resulting search capabilities open up
extraordinary and affordable solutions to the problems of preserving and
increasing access to historic newspaper content for libraries, archives and
scholars.  Speakers will include Marilyn Deegan, Refugee Studies Centre,
University of Oxford; Ed King, British Library Newspaper Project; Robert
Harriman, Library of Congress; and representatives from Olive Software.

Mark your calendars and plan to attend this Friday ALA Midwinter
pre-conference.  To register for the workshop, please contact Lisa Stickley
by email at sticklel@xxxxxxxxx