Digitisation of current newspapers in European libraries – Workshop of the LIBER
Working Group (WG) “Digitial Collections” on the 24th of June on the LIBER
conference 2015 in London
The responsibility for large digital collections forces research libraries to adapt in respect to
strategy and organisation, allocating financial and technological resources, and developing
competencies and skills. Against the backdrop of current LIBER activities the working group
will focus on the issue of digital collections to support LIBER members in selecting
appropriate strategies. The working group will collect, analyse and communicate best
practices and project activities to highlight the importance of digital collections for open
science and scholarly communication.
LIBERs working group “Digital Collections” has decided to host a workshop about the
digitization of current newspapers in European libraries on the LIBER conference in London
2015. The Europeana newspaper project demonstrated the many activities of digitization in
European libraries. Recent developments in countries like Finland, Denmark and Norway are
aiming at large scale digitization and at securing access to collections of current and copy
right protected newspapers. From that background the working group started a survey about
this topic, which has been done by the National Library of Norway, in order to explore the
actual situation in Europe. The results of the survey and the findings of best practice examples
should be presented on the WG workshop in London on the 24th of June 2015 from 9.00 to
12.00 am.
AGENDA
Chair of the Session: Margo Friedrike Bargheer (State and University Library Göttingen)
09.30: Andreas Degkwitz (Humboldt University Berlin / Chair of the WG) - Welcome and
Mission of the WG
09.35: Roger Josevold (National Library of Norway): Report and Results of the Survey –
Current newspapers digitisation in Norway
10.10: Torsten Johansson (Royal Library of Sweden): Current newspapers digitisation in
Sweden
10.30: Tonny Skovgard Jensen (State and University Library in Aarhus): Current newspapers
digitisation in Denmark
10:50 Coffee break
11.10: Jukka Kervinen (National Library of Finland): Current newspapers digitisation in
Finland
11:30 Bruno Sagna (Bibliothèque Nationale de France): Copyright regulations and legal
framework for running newspapers digitisation in France
11.50: Questions and final discussion (Chair of the Session: Margo Friederike Bargheer)