ICON international newspaper survey announcement -- Missy Roser Stephen Clark 26 Jun 2003 17:28 UTC
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: ICON international newspaper survey announcement. Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 11:41:28 -0500 From: "Missy Roser" <roser@CRL.EDU> To: <serialst@LIST.UVM.EDU> EDITOR'S NOTE: PLEASE DO NOT SENT YOUR RESPONSES TO THIS SURVEY TO SERIALST. FORWARD YOUR RESPONSES TO: ROSER@CRL.EDU .......................................... Dear colleagues, The International Coalition on Newspapers (ICON) develops strategies to preserve and improve access to newspapers from around the world; it is supported by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities and housed at the Center for Research Libraries. In addition to ongoing preservation-microfilming projects, we are moving forward in developing a dynamic union list of non-U.S. newspapers and holdings, which will enable researchers to locate newspaper holdings worldwide and help libraries develop collection and preservation priorities. An important step toward this goal is to survey institutions regarding the size, scope, and state of their international newspaper collections. We've designed a simple survey touching on four main topics, available as an online form at: http://www.crl.edu/content/iconsurveyentry.htm A version of the survey in Microsoft Word format (at http://www.crl.edu/content/iconsurveymsw.doc) is also available for those who might want to gather information before copying-and-pasting into the form. We'd like libraries to have their institution's most appropriate contact for non-U.S. newspapers (newspaper or serials librarian, preservation officer, reference librarian-some questions might require knowledge or input from several areas) answer as many of the questions as possible and register their responses by July 25. In hopes of obtaining a snapshot of international newspaper collections across North America, we're distributing this survey as broadly as possible, so there may be some duplication. The results will be invaluable for ICON's present objectives and future planning, which in turn will benefit newspaper users and the larger research community. Please contact me with any questions or problems, and feel free to forward this to any interested librarians or listservs we might not catch. Again, many thanks for your participation. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Missy Roser ICON Project Coordinator Center for Research Libraries 6050 South Kenwood Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60637 773.955.4545 x.315 http://icon.crl.edu roser@crl.edu :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::