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Trends in a new power base for news librarians

early 1990's: The Indiana conferences

MAIN SESSION SPEAKERS included:

  • Barbara Quint ... THEME: intermediaries

  • Nora Paul & Debbie Wolfe co-speakers ... THEMES: electronic public records; news librarians are journalists; notion of teamwork between reporters and news librarians is born

mid-1990's: Enter IRE/NICAR & Newslib

  • Raleigh's N&O conference: CAR is coined; spotlight includes roles of news librarians at the N&O -- Lany McDonald, Theresa Leonard and Lisa Van Asch

  • Cleveland conference: first newsroom trainers' gathering organized by Debbie Wolfe, St. Petersburg Times and Diane Weeks, Washington Post

  • San Jose conference: Lisa Van Asch's session is packed ... soon afterward 2 worldwide firsts: Lisa's job role changes to include 1/2—time training; Debbie Wolfe's job role changes to full-time newsroom technical training

  • Newslib listserv is born: membership includes news librarians, reporters, editors & academics ... thank you Barbara Semonche, University of North Carolina!

  • Boston conference: newsroom training gets 2 panels, both are packed ... Debbie Wolfe and Diane Weeks are among the audio-taped speakers

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