The IFLA Newspapers Section is currently seeking papers on or about outreach and marketing strategies for using or promoting online newspaper content, text mining, users of newspaper content, and use of news content for research purposes or as primary sources for historical or contemporary themes for its upcoming United States-hosted conference. In addition to papers focused on the theme of Start Spreading the News!, sub-themes on, but not limited to, the following topics are being sought :

-- Use of social media, such as Facebook, Twitter, news blogs, Flickr, etc.to expose news and raise awareness of news content to users
-- Emerging research methodologies in using news and news content
-- Text mining newspapers and news content
-- Technologies used in text mining and in the presentation of mined data
-- Case studies of statistical and word patterns research planned or underway of mined news content
-- Traditional research underway in using digitized newspaper collections
-- Users’ experiences with digitized newspaper collections
-- Usability expectations
-- Innovative methods for design, use, and engagement of users in newspaper content systems.
-- Strategies for finding, or finding out about, newspapers in the semantic web.
-- Other paper topics relevant to the main conference theme will also be considered.