Download or read book Newspapers Collection Management (La Gestión de Colecciones de Periódicos) written by Hartmut Walravens and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers presentations at the most recent events of the IFLA Newspapers Section (Santiago de Chile, May 2007 & Durban, August 2007). The Santiago International Newspaper Conference as the first of its kind, aimed at taking stock of the Latin American newspaper collection and analyzing current activities from the basics to sophisticated digitization and software technologies. Most presentations are offered in Spanish and English. This publication focuses on the key issues in newspaper librarianship - preservation and access - in which digitization is a very important tool.