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Promoting Discovery Tools for Library Services [Webinar Transcript]
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-12-06) IFLA Asia Oceania Regional Division
This is the zoom transcript of the webinar titled 'Promoting Discovery Tools'. It was organised by the IFLA Asia Oceania Regional Division Committee and held on 27 November 2024.
Blacklight: A Multi-Institutional Open-Source Collaboration Building a Better Discovery Platform Framework
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-12-04) Ingram, Terence; Favell, Kathryn
This is the presentation made at the webinar titled 'Promoting Discovery Tools'. It was organised by the IFLA Asia Oceania Regional Division Committee and held on 27 November 2024.
Using RDA to Improve Discovery
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-12-04) Jailani, Haliza; Ling, Ng Hui
This is the presentation made at the webinar titled 'Promoting Discovery Tools'. It was organised by the IFLA Asia Oceania Regional Division Committee and held on 27 November 2024.
SMU Libraries’ Experience with AI Search Software
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-12-04) Hsien, Aaron Tay Chee
This is the presentation made at the webinar titled 'Promoting Discovery Tools'. It was organised by the IFLA Asia Oceania Regional Division Committee and held on 27 November 2024.
Imagining Library Futures Using AI and Machine Learning
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-12-04) Yu-Chen, Huang
This is the presentation made at the webinar titled 'Promoting Discovery Tools'. It was organised by the IFLA Asia Oceania Regional Division Committee and held on 27 November 2024.
Combining Trusted Contents and Generative AI in the Primo Research Assistant
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-12-04) Lecaudey, Timothee
This is the presentation made at the webinar titled 'Promoting Discovery Tools'. It was organised by the IFLA Asia Oceania Regional Division Committee and held on 27 November 2024.
IFLA Management of Library Associations : Library Associations Contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-07-23) IFLA Management of Library Associations Section Standing Committee
The article is about Library Associations Contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It highlight Library Associations Future-Proofing for Global Challenges : Strategies and Innovations.
IFLA Division Committee D Midterm Report - Istanbul
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-07) Chair IFLA Division Committee D
"Global Openness" was the theme and title of the IFLA Division D Midterm meeting held at Koç University in Istanbul from 5-7 June 2024. Participants from 16 countries joined the meeting and participated in lively and productive discussions.
Connecting and Empowering Library Publishers: An International Knowledge Exchange
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2020-03) Buggle, Jane; O'Neill, Marie; IFLA Library Publishing Special Interest Group
The 2020 mid-term meeting was held at Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway in March 2020, chaired by Lars Egeland. This event explored in greater depth themes discussed in Dublin whilst also introducing newer topics. Library publishing (including new-model university presses housed in libraries) is a growing activity in many countries around the world. The IFLA SIG aims to bring together experienced practitioners and would-be publishers to build communities of practice, to share information, and advance this exciting field of endeavor. New and emerging library publishers will gain insight into the experiences and practices of established presses, and all attendees will learn from new and innovative approaches. All the presentations and the ensuing discussions will advance the excellence and sustainability of library publishing ventures. The aim of the event was to bring together a broad spectrum of publishing programs, to exchange knowledge, present good practice, and to foster networks and mentoring relationships among library publishers at all stages, also highlighting the important role that the Library Publishing Coalition and the IFLA SIG play in this regard. The SIG meeting also invited participation by library schools and others engaged in efforts to educate the next generation of library publishers.
Management of Information Use in Libraries: Leveraging the Role of Media
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-05-30) Fuentes García, Josefa
The role of media in democracies stands as a cornerstone in classical reflections on the significance of a sector that has consistently shaped public opinion within democratic states. The right to information has, in many ways, been materialized largely due to the existence of journalism and mass media. However, the contemporary landscape demands a didactic approach to the sources of information citizens consult, as many accessible sources through networks (Internet and social media) are not journalistic in nature. Thus, the focus shifts towards the right to "accurate information." Within a parliamentary library, managing and providing access to news information must always consider that users embody the diversity of ideologies within a nation. Curating a list of news requires clear criteria regarding the sources to be used, with items explicitly stating the newspaper of origin as a sine qua non condition. In the Senate Library, the use of journalistic information is structured around several key aspects: • Facilitating parliamentary access to primary sources: Parliamentarians have access to a comprehensive collection of daily national, foreign, and local newspapers within the library premises, encompassing approximately 35 titles. • Meeting information needs through historical newspaper searches: The library subscribes to the DJX database, enabling librarians to conduct retrospective searches for parliamentary inquiries. • Custodial and preservation efforts: The library diligently preserves all copies of two national newspapers dating back to the inception of the democratic period in 1978. These preserved pages can be reproduced for users and showcased in Senate bibliographic exhibitions. • Historical complement: By preserving select titles of political newspapers and magazines from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, the library enriches its bibliographic exhibitions, providing insights into the historical backdrop of political discourse. This paper delves into the multifaceted approach taken by the Senate Library in managing and utilizing journalistic information, highlighting its crucial role in serving the informational needs of parliamentarians and preserving the historical narrative for future generations.
Collecting Online Newspapers and Bypassing Paywalls
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-05-30) Heikkinen, Jari; Chamchoon, Topi; Sairanen, Samuli; Nieminen, Joel; Haukkala, Sanna
The Legal Deposit Office of the National Library of Finland has been systematically collecting articles from online newspaper sites and media platforms, as well as other web materials, since 2007. Currently, the initiative extends to around 800 Finnish newspapers and journals, engaging in an ongoing process of article harvesting. This project does not encompass the harvesting of digital editions of periodicals; therefore, it is imperative to select periodicals that provide article content on their websites. Although numerous online newspapers offer open access, the challenge persists with many being subscription-based, with articles concealed behind paywalls. Consequently, the web crawler is limited to retrieving merely images and snippets of text from the article's commencement. Confronting this impediment, the National Library of Finland has conceived a methodology for accessing articles behind paywalls. There are two primary strategies for harvesting paywalled articles: one involves IP address recognition; and the other entails obtaining login credentials directly from the newspaper publishers. These credentials are then integrated into the collection tool, facilitating the harvest. This approach necessitates a sustained partnership with publishers, especially as they frequently revise their login procedures, which in turn requires the harvesting tool to be updated with new protocols. Presently, the Library successfully collects articles behind the paywalls of approximately 100 online newspapers. Acknowledging that the endeavour to harvest paywalled articles is an ongoing task in the face of evolving technical landscapes, it is essential to remain continuously adaptable and vigilant. Nonetheless, the endeavour is useful, considering the discrepancies that may exist between the content, illustrations, and headlines in online newspapers compared to their printed counterparts. Through this paywall project, the National Library of Finland diligently addresses the complexities involved in archiving the evolving landscape of online media.
Safeguarding Scotland's Newspapers: A Collaborative Approach to Preservation and Access
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-05-30) Hutchison, Claire
This paper presents a large-scale conservation and digitisation initiative undertaken by the National Library of Scotland (NLS), addressing the difficult conservation of newsprint, and aiming to contribute to the growing body of research on digital preservation of historical documents. This paper discusses the challenges, approach, and impact of this initiative. It aims to foster an approach that empowers local communities to explore their heritage while simultaneously offering a global platform for Scotland's vibrant press by ensuring physical access through local libraries and archives.
Digitising and Giving Access to Newspapers in Swedish and Finnish via Collaboration Initiatives and Licensing Agreements
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-05-30) Karppinen, Pirjo; Arpiainen, Hanna; Kaukonen, Minna
The National Library of Finland (NLF) offers digitised Swedish-language newspapers published in Finland until December 1949 for open online use on https://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi. Online use is based on negotiations and collaboration with the copyright organisation. These newspapers have valuable Nordic research potential for historians, genealogists, citizen scientists etc. They enrich the understanding of everyday life, culture, and society. The project was funded by foundations and conducted with the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland, resulting in 3.9 million digitised pages (1940 -2016). The earlier and later Swedish-language newspapers were digitised by the NLF: 2.1 million pages. We describe examples of several cooperation initiatives and their results in this paper: with copyright organisation, publishers, and funding organisations to digitise more and widen access possibilities beyond the norm and legal deposit libraries. Cooperation has enabled the NLF to give access to Swedish-language newspapers until the end of 2018 in digital form also in selected archives. The out-of-copyright Swedish-language newspapers are now available for data mining in the Finnish Research Infrastructure Dariah (dariah.fi) too. A separate researcher agreement allows research use of Swedish-language newspapers published until 2021, in selected Finnish universities. Some Finnish-language newspapers have been digitised in NLF - publisher partnerships, e.g. the biggest title Helsingin Sanomat. Some Finnish-language newspapers have also been digitised in cooperation with a foundation, like newspapers from the Käkisalmi region in the former Finnish Karelia. Online access to these has been funded by the foundation until the 1960s. Another example of a multi-year partnership with a foundation is the digitisation of Finnish labour newspapers. Access to in-copyright papers is granted locally in labour archives. In cooperation with publishers, funds, foundations and partners, the National Library of Finland can accelerate the digitisation of cultural heritage materials and bring it to the use of citizens and researchers.
Surveying the Prairie State: Preserving Historical Newspapers through Partnerships, Public Engagement, Best Practices, and Institutional Realities
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-05-30) Knoles, Jessie; Schlaack, William
This paper considers how public institutions can develop a survey to guide collaborative efforts to reach common goals in newspaper digitization. By hosting a nomination opportunity, institutions can survey the landscape of newspaper digitization needs and priorities. The lessons learned during this grant-funded proposal process provide institutions with a structure to host their own nomination opportunities or assessment surveys in order to further digitization efforts. This paper will provide an informed framework to support data-driven decisions about newspaper digitization and preservation in geographic regions with an array of institutional resources and limitations.
Reading Between Bodies: Visual Media Literacy and Gender in Early Twentieth Century Newspaper Advertising
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-05-30) Lindsey, Hannah Gale; Edsall, Brooke
To support practices in growing visual media literacy skills, one possible research strategy is to employ critical theory to contextualize print advertising over time that is intended to reinforce a cultural ideal. This research uses tools of visual analysis and contextualization to interrogate message presentation practices across historic news sources, specifically advertisements, with the goal of understanding gender stereotypes in early 20th-century news advertisements. This research is a case study that demonstrates strategies that could be employed in other research contexts, including the university classroom environment.
Active and Retroactive Digital Newspaper Preservation
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-05-30) McDonnell, Andrew
The University of Kentucky Libraries’ (UKL) long-running efforts to document and provide access to the state’s history via newspaper preservation have necessarily evolved over the last 80 years. As news formats and preservation technologies have changed, particularly in relation to born-digital media, the libraries’ efforts have had to keep pace. The race to preserve these materials before they disappear or are locked away on media inaccessible to modern computers is not always chronologically linear, though. Digital archivists and librarians must sometimes straddle multiple generations of technology to successfully migrate, capture, and otherwise preserve digital publications, and there is no single guidebook to navigate the many ways to do so. This paper will explore ongoing efforts to preserve born-digital additions to the UKL’s Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program collection, including a discontinued bilingual newspaper that arrived in our collection as a box of 326 discs in varying states of decomposition, as well as web archiving for actively published newspapers that are entirely and exclusively online publications.
Testing an Inductive Mixed-method Computational Approach to News Frame Analysis: An analysis of Hungarian online reporting of the 2014 Russia-Ukraine conflict
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-05-30) Nagy, Mihály
Computational frame analysis is a highly contested, yet widely researched area of study, promising novel approaches for developing a broader understanding of news-reporting practices. Such an approach developed by Walter and Ophir (2019) is applied to inductively discover news frames used by Hungarian online news portals during the coverage of the events in Ukraine in 2014. The approach, named Analysis of Topic Model Networks, utilises LDA topic modelling and network community detection methods for inductively identifying frame packages. The applicability of the approach to Hungarian language text is explored using the BERTopic algorithm in place of LDA. Two subcorpora are analysed from the webarchive developed by Indig et al. (2019).
Making News Usage Tangible: A Exploratory Analysis of Usage Patterns in the Texas Digital Newspaper Program
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-05-30) Phillips, Mark E.; Phillips, Kristy K.; Krahmer, Ana
University of North Texas Libraries have been collecting, digitizing, and making accessible newspapers from around the State of Texas since 2009 and using them to build the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP). As the largest collection on The Portal to Texas History, these 980,000 newspaper issues comprise nearly half of the Portal's 2 million publicly-available items. This paper presents the outcome of an exploratory analysis of usage data for the TDNP collection, spanning 2009 to present and representing over 48 million total use events.
Kitchen Gadgets: Newspaper Recipe Data and AI
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-05-30) Jerome, Melissa; Tew, Sarah
Recetas de las Américas [https://recetas.domains.uflib.ufl.edu/] is a bilingual web project where users can view, browse, filter, and print recipes published between 1954 and 1960 in the newspaper, Diario las Américas (Miami, FL, USA). Launched in October 2022, the project is currently undergoing an expansion to include more than 300 recipes, all from Diario las Américas and which are available through Chronicling America, a newspaper database managed by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., USA. Recetas is a valuable project that calls attention to communities and contributors who have been historically underrepresented by traditional historical narratives, namely the Latin American immigrant community in Florida, particularly the Latina community, and women editors who were excluded from the newsroom and relegated to so-called “soft news” sections including “Del Hogar” where these recipes were published. The lightweight and mostly free and open-source technical infrastructures for data manipulation and website generation in the original version of Recetas follow minimal computing principles and have the potential to help facilitate multilingual digital publishing by underrepresented and under-resourced communities on historically marginalized topics. In scaling up the project, however, we are forced to confront AI’s potential to perpetuate existing inequalities and create new avenues for exclusion and elision from the historical record. In this paper, we discuss experimenting with AI tools to directly restructure, clean, and translate recipe text as well as to write Python code to perform these actions using traditional natural language processing resources. We will also present the findings and outputs from explorations of AI tools to generate PDF recipe cards and images of the recipes.
High Fidelity Web Archiving of News Sites and New Media with Browsertrix
(International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA), 2024-05-30) Walsh, Tessa; Wilkinson, Henry; Kreymer, Ilya
This paper discusses how Webrecorder’s free and open source browser-based web archiving tools such as Browsertrix can and have been used by libraries and archives to create and provide access to high fidelity web archives of online news sites, social media, digital publications, digital humanities projects, and other historically difficult to preserve forms of online news media. Emphasis is placed on recently developed assistive quality assurance (QA) tools implemented in Browsertrix that allow users to assess the quality of captured content with the assistance of automatically calculated metrics such as screenshot and text comparison between the site as visited by a browser during crawling and its replay from the captured archive. This exciting new development builds on existing features which differentiate Webrecorder’s browser-based crawling from alternative web archiving methods, such as the use of browser profiles to archive material behind log-ins and on personalized social media feeds, ad and cookie blocking features, and a suite of extendable behaviors that drive the browser during capture, allowing for autoscroll as well as automated navigation of certain social media sites. The paper discusses how these features enable librarians to easily and effectively preserve and provide access to news media, referencing several recent collaborations between Webrecorder, libraries, journalists, and others invested in high fidelity archiving of important and often complex online content.

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