Hartmut Walravens 
Newspapers on the Mind – Around the World 
The IFLA Round Table on Newspapers (RTN) 1989 – 2009

The Round Table on Newspapers (later: Section on Newspapers, now Newsmedia Section) of IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations) has been the authoritative group of experts for newspaper matters within the international library community. It has been involved in the major newspapers projects like TIDEN, News Plan and US Newspaper Program, developed guidelines for best practice in preservation microfilming and digitisation, advised librarians and fostered international cooperation. In a series of outreach conferences from Shanghai to Santiago de Chile and from the Arctic Circle to Canberra it emphasized the importance of newspapers as indispensable historical source material and advocated their cataloguing and preservation. It did not only become an authority regarding newspaper digitisation but also legal deposit, born digital newspapers and hybrid forms. While the present volume documents the Round Table’s work for a relatively short time span it was exactly that brief period that revolutionised newspapers, their preservation and their availability to readers (full text, text mining).
The volume comprises reminiscences of some members of he Round Table, the minutes of the business meetings, and analytic index to the ten volumes of proceedings of the Conferences and a facsimile of the Newsletter of the Round Table. With many photographs in colour.

Über den Autor

Der Herausgeber ist Wissenschaftshistoriker und hat in diesem Jahr bereits zwei Arbeiten über Julius Kurth veröffentlicht: «Ich habe gearbeitet für fünf Menschen!» Julius Kurth (1870-1949) als Sammler und Erforscher japanischer Farbholzschnitte. (Ostasiatische Zeitschrift 33.2017, 44-54) sowie Julius Kurth (1870-1949). Berliner Japansammler, Gelehrter und Pfarrer. Mit seinem unveröffentlichten Sharaku-Schauspiel. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2017.