Newspapers Forum, 23 May 2009
"Newspapers as Medium and Message: A Key to Australian Historical Research"
The State Library User Organisations' Council with the support of the State Library of Victoria are running a one-day forum in the Conference Centre, State Library of Victoria, on Saturday 23 May, 1.00–5.30 pm.
Rod Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Morrison, Eleanor Pugsley, Wallace Kirsop and staff of the State Library of Victoria and the National Library of Australia will examine ways to obtain historical information from newspapers. They will reflect on major newspaper digitising projects, and on the advances in conservation, management and indexing that have made Australia's newspapers more accessible to researchers.
These innovations make it timely to look again at the medium itself. Some of the questions to be considered include: How did the free press evolve in Australia? Who were some of the main owners and editors and how did they shape what the press recorded? Who ran the local and regional daily and weekly papers and what were the distribution patterns? How does reading a digitised copy of a newspaper change our understanding of the medium?
Bookings: Centre.forthe.Book@arts.monash.edu.au.
Admission: FREE.
The State Library User Organisations' Council with the support of the State Library of Victoria are running a one-day forum in the Conference Centre, State Library of Victoria, on Saturday 23 May, 1.00–5.30 pm.
Rod Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Morrison, Eleanor Pugsley, Wallace Kirsop and staff of the State Library of Victoria and the National Library of Australia will examine ways to obtain historical information from newspapers. They will reflect on major newspaper digitising projects, and on the advances in conservation, management and indexing that have made Australia's newspapers more accessible to researchers.
These innovations make it timely to look again at the medium itself. Some of the questions to be considered include: How did the free press evolve in Australia? Who were some of the main owners and editors and how did they shape what the press recorded? Who ran the local and regional daily and weekly papers and what were the distribution patterns? How does reading a digitised copy of a newspaper change our understanding of the medium?
Bookings: Centre.forthe.Book@arts.monash.edu.au.
Admission: FREE.
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