Newspapers in Central and Eastern Europe / Zeitungen in Mittel- und Osteuropa - Papers presented at an IFLA conference held in Berlin, August 2003 (Hardcover, Reprint 2017)

This book contains the proceedings of a special IFLA conference held in Berlin in August 2003. The situation of newspaper collections was reviewed in a part of the world that has undergone a complete change in its political and economical circumstances during the 1990's. The papers focus on a wide array of issues related to newspaper librarianship. They are grouped into the following categories: acquisition policies, copyright issues for newspaper collection management, digitization and electronic newspapers, new technologies of paper conservation, storage and text management. There are a total of approximately 35 short articles: a mixture of both English and German texts. All the German papers have been provided with English abstracts.