[padg] Conference to celebrate the California Digital Newspaper Collection

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CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERS IN THE DIGITAL AGE: MAKING OUR HISTORY AVAILABLE - 
A CONFERENCE IN CELEBRATION

Riverside Convention Center
Friday, October 19, 2007
9am-5pm

This conference will celebrate the creation of the California Digital 
Newspaper Collection (http://cdnc.ucr.edu), a free digital resource 
containing over a half century of California newspapers, and discuss  this
milestone in the larger context of preserving and accessing
California newspapers.

Attendance is free and includes continental breakfast, lunch, and an 
afternoon cocktail reception. A limited number of grants are available  to
teachers to defray the cost of a substitute. Travel grants are also 
available for public librarians.


PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. FOR CONFERENCE AGENDA, ONLINE
REGISTRATION, AND INFORMATION ON APPLYING FOR A GRANT SEE:

http://cbsr.ucr.edu/newspaper_conference

Conference sessions will be devoted to the importance of the newspaper  as
an historical source, the changing publishing environment, the 
implications of the electronic age for newspaper preservation, and the 
value of newspapers for professionals and the general public. This 
conference will provide publishers, journalists and scholars as well as 
teachers, librarians, and genealogists, the forum in which to engage in  a
dialogue about the important issues yet unresolved regarding access to 
and preservation of California newspapers.

Currently, issues of the Daily Alta California and the San Francisco  Call
are being added to the California Digital Newspaper Collection,  providing
a run of San Francisco newspapers from 1850-1910. Forthcoming  titles
include the Los Angeles Herald, Amador Ledger, and Imperial  Valley Press.
As the process of developing the Collection is ongoing,  conference
participants will have the opportunity to contribute to its  creation. The
history of California as preserved in its newspapers  belongs to all of us
and we are eager to tailor the collection to the  needs of our users
statewide.

The conference will take place at the Riverside Convention Center in 
beautiful downtown Riverside. The historic Mission Inn, a 101-year-old 
property with Moorish architecture, and a pedestrian mall lined with 
boutiques, antique shops and cafes are just a short walk away. In 
addition, the city boasts more than 20 museums and galleries, 10 golf 
courses and a 40-acre botanical garden on the University of California, 
Riverside campus. Join us!


Andrea Vanek
Assistant Director/Librarian
California Newspaper Project
250 Moffitt Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
510-643-7680
FAX 510-642-8890
avanek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx