NEWSPLAN Seminar“The Way Ahead", 12th May 2009,

National Library of Ireland

Forty delegates from public, academic and special libraries attended the seminar which focused on the future of the NEWSPLAN preservation programme for newspapers held in libraries and other repositories in the island of Ireland.

Aongus Ó hAonghusa, Director (NLI) welcomed participants and reported on the latest developments of the NLI newspapers collection in the context of the NEWSPLAN programme.

Robin Adams (Trinity College Dublin; Chair of the Joint Liaison Committee for NEWSPLAN in Ireland) gave a presentation on the achievements of NEWSPLAN and NEWSPLAN 2000 while Roger Dixon (Ulster Folk and Transport Museum; Chair of UK & Ireland NEWSPLAN Panel) focused on the aims and objectives for the future for the preservation of newspapers in the island of Ireland.

Ed King (Head of Newspaper Collections, British Library) reported on the latest developments of the British Library for digitizing old newspapers.

Mark O’Brien (DCU), gave details on the activities of the Newspaper and Periodical History Forum of Ireland (www.newspapersperiodicals.org) which is aimed to all interested parties in newspaper and/or periodical history.

The final session chaired by Robin Adams offered the opportunity to delegates to discuss the various issues raised during the presentations.

For further details on Newsplan in Ireland contact: Robin Adams, Chair of Newsplan Joint Liaison Committee and Domitilla Fagan, Secretary, of Newsplan Joint Liaison Committee

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