IFLA Publications.

The article presents information on the book "Newspapers in Centnil and Eastern Europe: Zeitwigen in Mittel-und Ostewopa," edited by Hartmut Wairavens. This book contains the Proceedings of a special IFLA Conference held in Munich in August 2003. The situation of newspapers collection was reviewed in the part of the world that had undergone a complete change of the political and economical situation during the 1990s. The papers focus on a wide array of issues related to newspaper librarianship. They are grouped into the following categories: acquisition policies, copyright issues for news- paper collection management, digitization and electronic newspapers, new technologies of paper conservation, storage and text management. There are approximately 35 short articles in total; these are a mix of English and German texts. All German papers are provided with an English abstract.