News Division programs of 2002

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Monday, June 10, 2002 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
"Research and Preservation Issues in Image Archiving"
    Two specific  topics were addressed in this program.
    David Cappoli, manager of the electronic collections of the UCLA Department of Information Studies, gave examples of websites where image researchers can find high-resolution, copyright-clear photographs which could be legally acquired and published by a newspaper on deadline. See the summary of David's presentation.
   
Vicky McCargar, Senior Editor, Library Project Development, at the Los Angeles, spoke about the continuing uncertainty that electronic media will survive for the long term. See the summary of Vicky's presentation.
   
Peter Johnson, of the LA Times Library, was the moderator of this program, which was sponsored by ProQuest

Monday, June 10, 2002 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
"Trendspotting"
    The News Division co-hosted this session with the Advertising and Marketing Division, with each division is providing a speaker.
    The News Division speaker was Gene Balk of the Orange County Register. He demonstrated how he would search for the elusive "trend story" using both a paid archive such as Lexis-Nexis and the general Internet. See the summary of this presentation.
    Ellen Ratchye, of Fallon Worldwide, was the Ad-Marketing speaker. She described how she spots social and consumer trends on the horizon as part of her work.

    Linda Henderson, of the Providence Journal, moderated this session, and the sponor was Factiva.


Tuesday, June 11, 2002 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
"Current Issues in Internet News Research"
   At this session, which was webcast live, we had two top experts in news research.
   Gary Price, of Gary Price Library & Internet Research Consulting and the editor of The Virtual Acquisition Shelf & News Desk, demonstrated some of the newest features of several search engines which can be used when a simple Google search is insufficient. See the summary of Gary's presentation, including the full audio.
   Anne Mintz, director of Knowledge Management at Forbes Inc. discussed the problem of intentional misinformation on the Internet. See the summary of Anne's presentation with specific examples of this problem.
    Jim Hunter, of the Columbus Dispatch, moderated this session, which was sponsored Gale Group

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
"Life After Tasini"
    This program was a roundtable discussion on the Tasini vs. New York Times Supreme Court decision
    Panelists included freelance writer Anne Scheck, newspaper librarian Richard Geiger, and Harry Youtt, the attorney who crafted the original Tasini lawsuit in 1994.

    See the summary of this program.
    Cary Kenney, of the St. Petersburg Times, was the moderator of this program. Cary was the author of "Newspaper Publishers in the Post-Tasini Era," which was published in Searcher magazine in March 2002.

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
"New Ventures in News Libraries -- Part one"

    As news library services have been transformed into end-user online resources, librarians have shifted their attention to creating new services for the newsroom. Part one of this two-part program focused on intranets and other in-house projects centered in the library.
    Scott Wilson of the Los Angeles Times Library, demonstrated some of the features and databases in the Times library intranet, including special Census, voter registration and campaign contribution databases, as well as voting district maps and Sept. 11-related resources.
    Laura Soto-Barra, assistant managing editor and director of library services at The (Syracuse) Post-Standard, demonstrated a similar intranet and explained how such a project can be successful even at a small library if there is a strong partnership with the newsroom and systems support.
    See the summary of this presentation.
    The moderator for this session was Michael Jesse, and the sponsor was Lexis-Nexis

Tuesday, June 11, 2002 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
"New Ventures in News Libraries - Part Two"
    While Part One of this session focused on in-house resources, Part Two dealt with projects done by news libraries on the public Internet.
    Sheryl Rosenthal of U.S. News & World Report will demonstrated the "News Briefings" feature which the library staff creates on such topics as the War on Terrorism, Human Cloning, and the trial of Slobodan Milosevic.
    Michael Jesse of The Indianapolis Star will show a similar project in which library summarizing local issues covered by The Star.
    See the summary of this session.
    The moderator for this session was Michael Jesse, and the sponsor was Lexis-Nexis

Wednesday, June 12, 2002 7:00 a.m. to 8:30 a.m.
"September 11 Roundtable"
    This program was a roundtable discussion among librarians representing various media outlets. They related their experiences on Sept. 11, 2001 and the techniques they used to make sense of the massive amount of research material they accumulated on victims of the attacks.
    The panelists included: Linda Henderson, Providence Journal; Jim Oberman, Time Magazine; Cary Schneider, Los Angeles Times; Candace Stuart, ABC News.
    See the summary of this session.
    This session was moderated by Melinda Carlson, of ABC News.

Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
"Digitization from Microfilm"
    Digitization technology is becoming a mature technology and several vendors are marketing systems to convert "legacy files" from film to digital form. Representatives from ProQuest, Olive Software and Cold North Wind discussed their products and gave general advice on what librarians need to do when embarking on such a massive project. John Jansson of the Chicago Tribune provided the perspective of the news librarian.
    See the summary of this program.
    The session was moderated by Patti Graziano of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Wednesday, June 12, 2002 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
"PDF Archiving"
    Over the past few years the "Portable Document Format" has become widely used as a way to archive full newspaper pages, potentially as a replacement for microfilm. This session showcased some of the more extensive PDF-archiving projects already in place at some newspapers.
    Speakers included: Steve Rubin, of IBM, Sharon Clairemont, of the Orange County Register, Chris Hardesty, of Newsday, and Kathy Drewke, of the Atlanta Journal and Constitution.

    See the summary of this program.
    The moderator was Jennifer Small Evert and the sponsor was LexisNexis.