2003 SLA Conference - News Division
International Libraries Committee
Wednesday, June 11, 2003
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
"Globalization
in News Research:
European and Latin American colleagues share experiences
and tips on resource sharing accross the globe"
Location:
New York City, Marriott Hotel,
O'Neill Room
Moderator: Wil Roestenburg, PCM, The Netherlands
Speaker: Laura Soto-Barra , Syracuse Post-Standard
Guest Speaker: Daan Boom, KPMGSession Sponsor: Dialog
We're very glad to announce the final outline of the session on Globalization. Especially because we were able to program a real great speaker from outside our own field, someone who's very strongly involved in the use of daily news in a knowledge management environment with global dimensions, Daan Boom of KPMG.Below you can read all about him and his contribution.
The final program on Globalization:
1 - Laura Soto-Barra (AME Library - Post-Standard in Syracuse)
Laura will give us a presentation on Diaro EXPRESO's library in Guayaquil, Ecuador. [Photos]
This program is an overview of how Ecuadorian news librarians work to improve their newspaper. Actually their official name is "Centro de Estadisticas y Documentacion" because the person in charge of the Department is an economist. The library not only develops the archive, performs research, monitors the local news, but also prepares graphics with financial and statistical data that help to improve content and serve their readers. They work in a very demanding and competitive environment and the staff are professionals with many years of experience in journalism in several areas, information sciences, information systems, but not librarians.
2 - Wil Roestenburg (Head Information & Documentation PCM national dailies in the Netherlands) will give us a presentation on some trends and developments in the Netherlands and Europe. PCM publishes 4 of the 5 main national dailies in the Netherlands. These papers are competitors, but the libraries are organized in one closely cooperating unit and share one common content management department. Europe is a very multilingual world and the amount of non-English information is expanding very rapidly. Recently PCM sold its database FactLANE to Lexis-Nexis. Dutch content, can you deal with it? "Language" could become the most important issue in the near future. Lots of research is done on multilingual /cross-lingual retrieval and on automatic translation. Very soon it will be possible to search in several languages at once.
3 - Daan Boom (Dutch and European Knowledge Manager KPMG Assurance)
Daan will tell us a lot about strategic content in the global intranet of KPMG. KPMG is a global player and there's a lot of news involved, real time versus delayed time, global versus regional, the acquisition process, distribution, optimizing usage, integration of news in daily workflows etc. Knowledge management on a global stage! Some information to introduce Daan to you all:
Daan Boom (1950) is the Senior Knowledge Manager at KPMG Assurance and FAS (Financial Advisory Services) of KPMG Headquarters in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. He's assisting his business in adopting knowledge management in day-to-day business operations. Prior before joining KPMG Consulting in 1973 he worked for Perscombinatie, a major daily newspaper publisher (nowadays it's part of PCM publishers). Within KPMG Daan worked at several divisions before joining the Audit practice in 1992. In 1993, for KPMG, he built one of the first corporate Intranets DOKOS which is still operational. In 1997, he became involved in the Research and Strategy Group of KWorld, the knowledge sharing initiative of the global KPMG organization. Daan is a member of the Global Knowledge Management Assurance Team in Montvale, New Jersey (USA) and, in this capacity, is working closely together with his counterparts from the USA, UK, Canada, Australia and Germany to crate a truly global and local Intranet. He graduated in Library Science (1972) and Archive Science (1974), and received a 4-year training in Computer Science (AMBI) in the Netherlands. He is a member of the Advisory Board of the Deventer School on Information Science. Daan is a frequent speaker on conferences on Knowledge Management and Intranets throughout the world. He was conference chair session leader on the International Knowledge Management Conference 2000 in Palo Alto, speaker at the Internet and Librarian Conference in London (March 2000 and 2001) and speaker as several meetings in the Netherlands. He wrote several articles about the role of information professionals, the impact of technology on the profession, and cultural aspects of information transfer within global companies. Daan is a member of SLA's LMD and B&F divisions.