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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.