INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE
News Division of SLA
NewsLib's Directory (2003) of International Subscribers | Directory (2002) of Latin American Media Librarians |
International Relations Committee's 2002 Annual Report | Articles about International News Libraries |
NewsLib International Subscribers (April 2005)
International Media Archivists |
Photo Gallery |
SLA News Division Programs * New York City, June 7-12, 2003 * Int. Lib. Comm. Prog. '03 * Anaheim, CA, June 1987 |
Freedom Forum / SLA International Libraries Fellows |
Reports from international news librarians/archivists' visits/tours to North America. | International
Conferences (Outside North America) |
Links to international media: newspapers, broadcast, cable, wire services, etc. | Profiles of international news libraries. |
ARTICLES [Note: article files are large and load slowly.]
*
Hong Kong Library Organization's Newsletter,
Nov. 2002:
"Visit to Sing Tao Group & Cable TV Libraries"
Text in English. Photos included. http://www.hklib.org.hk/newsletter/2002nov/media.html
* VPOD Nieuws (VPOD means Vereniging van Pers- en Omroepdocumentalisten = Association of the Dutch Press- and Broadcast Librarians): [In Dutch and English]
1: Semonche's visit to Holland in May 2001, published in June 2001. Photo. [In English]
2: Laura Soto-Barra's visit to PcM in March 2002, published in June 2002. Photo. [In Dutch]
3: Article about SLA, News Division and our Annual report from June 2002, published in September 2002. [In English and Dutch]
4: Jos van Tegelen, Information Resource Center, U.S. Embassy the Hague, The Netherlands vantegelenj@state.gov , prepared a web site of a group of Dutch media archivists' tour of US news research centers April, 2003.
http://www.vpod.nl/april.htm The web page offers photos of the trip and is in written in Dutch.
* de Journalist, May 18, 2001: "Documentalist sluipt redactie binnen," Photo. [In Dutch only]
* Biblioteks Pressen, 19 Juni, 2001: "Mediabibliotekar på amerikansk." Af Hans Henrik Kragh-Nielsen. Photo. [In Danish only]
* NewsLibraryNews:
Spring 2005: "Libraries'
mission, future discussed at international seminar." Cover article by
Leigh Montgomery, librarian with The Christian Science Monitor.
[Note: includes a color photo of news librarians attending the October 2004
Salzburg Seminar.]
Fall
1998: "Looking
at Libraries: The Montreal Gazette." Photo in original print
edition only . By Donna MacHutchin. (Library profile)
Spring
1996: "Nordic
News Researchers and Librarians Meet in Sweden." (Cover article) By
Sanna Kilner. [Note: scroll to bottom of screen to locate article.]
Fall 1996: "Play
on Words: AUKML Style. United Kingdom Media Librarians Meeting Durham, England
July 5-7, 1996. (Feature article)
Spring
1995: "Report
from Down Under: Challenges for Information Management in the Radio Division of
Australian Broadcasting Corporation." (Cover article) By John
Bartholmaeus.
Summer 1994: "Emerging free press, news libraries vital partners." (Cover article discusses The Freedom Forum and eastern Europe including Poland, Croatia, Slovakia, as well as Vietnam.) By Mona Hatfield. [Note: Scroll to the bottom of the screen for the article.]
Fall 1994: "The CRTC, the FCC and their Libraries." [Note: for this article on the Canadian Broadcasting System scroll down to the bottom of the screen.] (Covert article) By Leone Earls and Carol Ashurst.
Fall 1993: "United Kingdom librarians meet in Edinburgh." By Helen Martin
*
World Reports -- Online
Journalism (reports from Latin America, Europe, Mid-East are in English)
* OJR: "Writing
for a Global Audience" April 5, 2002
BOOK CHAPTER
News
Media Libraries: A management handbook. Edited by Barbara Semonche.
Published by Greenwood Press in 1993. Chapter
4: "News Libraries in the European Community." By Lucinda Covert-Vail.
[Note: the author of this chapter conducted a survey and follow-up interviews
with responding news libraries in Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy,
Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom. The author's
attempts to reach news librarians in Greece and Ireland were unsuccessful. This
chapter offers extensive notes and a bibliography.]
PHOTO GALLERY [Note: photo files are large and load slowly]
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* Australia:
The Age
Library Pictorial Staff - 1997
* Denmark: Danish
Media Archivists - 2001
* Hungary: Hungarian
Media Archivists - 2001
* Netherlands: Dutch
Media Archivists - 2001
* Poland: Center
for Independent Journalism - 1996
* Romania: Center
for Independent Journalism - 1996
* South Africa: F.A.M.E.
Workshop in Johannesburg - 2002
* Equador: Photos of Diaro
EXPRESO's library in Guayaquil - 2003
* United Kingdom Media Librarians http://www.aukml.org.uk/home2.htm
* Danish Media Archivists www.bf.dk/bpr/ (in Danish)
* Hungarian Media Archivists
* SLA News Division http://www.ibiblio.org/slanews/
* Special Libraries Association http://www.sla.org/
* Reporters Sans Frontières http://www.rsf.fr/ (in French)
FREEDOM FORUM / SLA INTERNATIONAL
LIBRARIES FELLOWS
1995: Prague, Czech Republic and Bratislava, Slovakia
Kathleen Flynn (at this time with
Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
[Note: See Flynn's article in SpeciaList, April 1996.]
1996: Warsaw, Poland and Bucharest, Romania
Barbara Semonche (UNC-CH School of Journalism and Mass
Communication)
Hong Kong and Manila, Philippines
Margot Williams
(Washington Post)
[Note: See Williams'
& Semonche's articles in
Information Outlook, June 1997.]
1997: Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia
Chris Hardesty (at this time with The News & Observer)
"To
Russia With Love" published in NewsLibraryNews, Winter 1998
Hong Kong and Manila, Philippines
Margot Williams (Washington Post)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Jan Tudor (JT Research in Portland Oregon)
[Note: See Phyllis Lyons' article report in June 25, 1998
http://www.freedomforum.org/international/1998/6/25argentina.asp
]
1998: Caracas, Venezuela and Lima, Peru
Miriam Matteson (University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill)
Hong Kong and Bangkok, Thailand
Jennifer Small Evert (at this time with the
San Antonio Express-News)
South Africa
Sylvia Piggott (World Bank)
Budapest, Hungary and Bucharest, Romania
Janet Dombrowski
(National Geographic)
1999-2000: [None awarded]
2001: La Paz, Cochabamba, and Santa Cruz, Bolivia
Laura Soto-Barra.
2002: Johannesburg, South Africa
Carolyn
Hardnett (Freedom Forum)
INTERNATIONAL VISITORS TO USA:
2002:
2001: Annabel Colley, the BBC's Current Affairs web producer, is named European Special Librarian of the Year 2001. Here is a link to Colley's presentation at SLA's annual conference in San Antonio, Texas, "From Librarian to Web Producer via Investigative Journalism."
Aase Andreasen, from Copenhagen, Denmark
Wil Roestenburg, from Amsterdam, Netherlands
2000:
1999: The News Division's Vormelker-Thomas Student Award competition winner, Solveig Benedikte Nes, is from Oslo, Norway.
1995: The News Division's Vormelker-Thomas Student Award competition winner, Catherine Cino, is from Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
NEWS DIVISION PROGRAM, June 1987:
International News Librarians
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (Outside North America)
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2002:
2001: [See also: Danish and Dutch media archivists' articles listed above.]
2000:
1999: VPOD conference in the
Netherlands - Putting
a Library Reorganization Plan into Action – a Dutch Case Study. Paper
(10 pages) presented by Wil Roestenburg. [In English and Dutch] Wil begins his
presentation with a salute Nora Paul.
1998: July Summer Session in the
Netherlands- "Journalism in the Electronic Age." In
Maastricht, Netherlands, at the European Journalism Centre (EJC). Organized by EJC and
Amsterdam-Maastricht Summer University. Nora Paul, Poynter Institute, St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S.A.
http://www.amsu.edu/ 1997: AUKML's (Assoc. of United Kingdom
Media Librarians) October conference,
"Forging a Professional Relationship with the Newsroom:" Nora
Paul's presentation. Currently, Nora is the director of the Institute for
New Media Studies at the University of Minnesota npaul@umn.edu
. 1996: "Nordic
News Researchers and Librarians Meet in Sweden." (Cover article in NewsLibrary
News, Spring 1996.) By Sanna Kilner. [Note: scroll to bottom of screen to
locate article.] 1996: "Play
on Words: AUKML Style. United Kingdom Media Librarians Meeting Durham, England
July 5-7, 1996. (Feature article in NewsLibraryNews, Fall 1996) 1993: "United
Kingdom librarians meet in Edinburgh." By Helen Martin. (Feature
article in NewsLibraryNews, Fall 1993.) INTERNATIONAL MEDIA LINKS
Asia News Network (ANN)
http://www.asianewsnet.net