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ii Published by: Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts IFLA Newspaper Section February, 2010 New Delhi Printed by: Om Laser Printers Delhi- 110009 iii Table of Contents Physical Preservation of Newspaper Resources (Hardcopies Archives, Microfilm Archives) the practices at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (The French National Library) Else Delaunay .............................................................................................................. 1 Following the Crowd: User Engagement and the Australian Newspapers Service Experience Cathy Pilgrim............................................................................................................... 10 Newspaper Digitisation in South Africa Patricia Liebetrau ........................................................................................................ 18 Newspaper Digitisation : A Silver Bullet Deborah Novotny ......................................................................................................... 25 Preservation and Archiving Solutions Keith Rajecki................................................................................................................ 33 24 by 7 Digital Access to Newspapers: The Singapore NLB’s Experience Ngian Lek Choh ........................................................................................................... 48 Improving Access to Digitized Historical Newspapers with Text Mining Coordinated Models and Formative User Interface Design Robert B. Allen............................................................................................................. 54 Newspapers as a Digital Resource National Infrastructure and Newspaper Publishers – in Finland Majlis Bremer-Laamanen ............................................................................................ 60 Connecting the Dots: How Researchers use their Library’s News Resources Debora Cheney ........................................................................................................... 68 Building A 24x7 Newspaper Digital Library and Archives (Case Study of DNA – Daily News & Analysis) Anita Pujari.................................................................................................................. 90 Digital Preservation and Access to Print Media Resources: Experiences at the Times Archives and Knowledge Centre, India R. Venkata Kesavan, Shankar Marathe, Salila Sreesan and Prof. Vijaya P. Rajhansa.............................................................................................. 101 Newspaper Database Management at MICA’s Knowledge Exchange & Information Centre Shailesh R. Yagnik, Niraj R. Patel and Lavji N. Zala................................................... 115 Online Newspaper Reading Habits among PhD Students and Faculty Members in Aligarh Muslim University Naushad Ali P.M and Mohamed Musthafa K............................................................... 127 Open Access Model for Libraries and Newspapers: New Roles and Convergences Ajit Pyati ...................................................................................................................... 143 iv Newspaper Digital Libraries News-Clipping Services and Long Term Archiving Using Greenstone M.G. Sreekumar, R. Biju, T. Sunitha, P. Sreejaya, Joshy Kuriakose and K.M. Sudheesh Kumar.................................................................................................. 150 Media Archives-cum-National Reference Library on the North-East (India) Prof Alaka Buragohain ................................................................................................ 160 Online Bengali Newspapers: A Comparative Study Ashis Biswas and Mayuri Das Biswas.......................................................................... 167 Access to Indian Online Newspapers: Problems and Prospects Avijit Chakrabarti ........................................................................................................ 177 Access to Online Newspapers of India: An Overview Dr. O.N. Chaubey and Dr. (Mrs.) R.Chandra.............................................................. 188 Googling News and Views Online Dr. D.R. Gupta............................................................................................................. 195 Newspaper Section of the National Library Kolkata: Physical Preservation and Access to News Gopa Ghosh, Nivedita Bhattacharya and Avijit Chakrabarti....................................... 205 Building a Web Based Digital Repository of Images: Case Study of the Hindustan Times Pratibha Kaushik ........................................................................................................ 215 Preservation of Newspapers in JNU Library: A Case Study Dr. M. Natarajan and Payel Biswas ............................................................................ 226 Bengali Newspapers and Their Newspaper Preservation Techniques: An Overview Pritam Gurey and Avijit Chakrabarti........................................................................... 233 Growth and Development of Online Newspapers with Special Reference to India Dr. Sumeer Gul and Tariq Ahmad Shah....................................................................... 241 Concept Analysis of News for Mining Strategic Information Sumit Goswami and V Senthil ...................................................................................... 253 Training Programmes for Newspaper Library Professionals in India Dr. G. Sivaprasad ........................................................................................................ 266 Archiving News in a University using Open Source Software Surendran Cherukodan and Dr. Sheeja N.K. ............................................................... 273 Press Clippings Information Service of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Library: A Case Study Mahesh Chand ............................................................................................................. 280 v Editors’ note We are pleased to present to you some of the papers of IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2010: Digital Preservation and Access to News and Views being organized jointly by Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts and IFLA Newspaper Section from 25th to 28th February, 2010. The volume includes a total of 29 papers both invited as well as contributed by more than 45 authors from 9 different countries. These papers cover various aspects such as physical preservation, digital preservation of both traditional as well as born digital, digitization, online newspapers, newspaper as digital resource and 24X7 digital access to newspapers. Also explored are various issues concerning digital archiving of newspapers and the reading habits of users in the digital era. The papers in this volume are presented with a view to triggering further discussions during the Conference. Later this volume may also help the participants as a reference tool in implementing some of the ideas discussed during the Conference. This is the first time that such an International Conference is being organized in India. Therefore, we believe the newspaper- libraries and archives in India would be able to derive much value out of the contents of this volume. We have tried to include almost all the papers being presented in the Conference. However, due to the paucity of time some of the papers have not been included. We understand that a complete volume will be published by IFLA Newspaper Section as proceedings of the Conference in due course of time and some of the papers which have not been included here may be part of the proceedings. The deadline for receiving of full text papers was 7th February, 2010. However, many of the papers have been received till 17th February, 2010. So, we were having few days to edit these papers. Despite our best efforts some errors may have crept in, so due apologies to Authors for any such errors. We are grateful to all the speakers at the Conference for providing valuable inputs for this volume. Our sincere thanks to the Printer of this volume for timely printing and special thanks to Mr. R.S.Kaushik for his help. The typing assistance received from Mrs. Kiran Kapoor and Mrs. vi Sunita Arora IGNCA is duly acknowledged. Last but not the least we are grateful to the Members of the Publication Committee of the above Conference, namely, Ramesh C. Gaur, Frederick Zarndt, Par Nilsson, Edmund King and Hartmut Walravens for their contributions in screening and review of proposals received for the above Conference. Without their efforts this volume may not have been possible. Editors vii From the IFLA Newspapers Section Chair This year’s IFLA Newspapers Section conference, on the theme “Digital Preservation and Access to News and Views”, takes a progressive look at news and newspapers. In keeping with the digital focus of Stockholm’s August 2009 conference on “The Present becomes the past: Harvesting, archiving, presenting today’s digitally produced newspapers”, the 2010 New Delhi conference also focuses as much on collection, preservation, and access of digital news and newspapers as it does on these same activities for traditional print newspapers. The reason for this is obvious: News is now created and produced digitally, even for print newspapers. Almost without exception, mid- sized or larger newspaper publishers distribute news via the Internet concurrently with their print issues. And although news continues to be distributed in print, some newspaper publishers such as the Christian Science Monitor