The conference led to a number of recommendations, including setting up a forum of professionals to help develop newspaper libraries in India.
The four-day IFLA international newspaper conference, which was attended by over 220 delegates, ended on Sunday.
The conference, hosted by the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, from February 25 to 28, focused on the theme of digital preservation and access to news and videos.
The conference saw the participation of speakers from leading national libraries and newspaper libraries and archives from about 10 countries, including the USA, the UK, France, Germany, Finland, Australia, South Africa, and Singapore.
The conference witnessed about 40 presentations and talks delivered by eminent speakers from India and abroad.
The discussions during the conference revolved around issues such as archival preservation and conservation of newspapers, policy issues and strategies, digital preservation of traditional and born digital newspapers, online newspapers, digital access to news and views, etc.
Dr Ramesh C Gaur, conference director, said the meeting was very successful in achieving its objectives. The conference led to a number of recommendations for the future course of action among newspaper libraries. The important ones were to form a forum of professionals for newspaper libraries in India to address their development needs; to come out with a state-of-the-art report on newspaper libraries in India, and to create a directory of global newspaper libraries.
The various models, tools and technology for digital preservation were presented during the conference.
The conference ended with a valedictory address by Jawhar Sircar, secretary in the Union ministry of culture. Sircar appreciated the relevance of the conference, particularly for all organisations that preserve and provide access to news resources.
Sircar also stressed upon the need to form a professional forum with all stakeholders involved in preservation and provision of access of news resources by setting up national standards and benchmarks for effective use of various resources, including grants and funds from the government.
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