In response to Miranda Haddock's request for info about associations of use
to film/video collection librarians/curators ...
You'll find the mother lode of useful information through AMIA, the
Association of Moving Image Archivists. Their home page is at
http://www.amianet.org (their annual conference is in Los Angeles this
year, Nov 13-19). AMIA membership includes curators, film and video
artists, librarians, archivists, and conservators along with other
professionals working at production houses, technical labs and major motion
picture archives (industry, non-profit & government). Membership is
strongest in the U.S. and Canada, but there is also significant membership
abroad. Among the objectives of the Association are commitment to:
encourage public awareness of the use of moving images as an important
educational, historical, and cultural resource; promote moving image
archival activities, including preservation, cataloging and documentation,
and access; and development of professional standards and practices.
Another association that is doing valuable work is the Consortium of
College and University Media Centers (CCUMC; home page
http://www.indiana.edu/~ccumc/about.html ), an organization of over 400
educational and commercial institutions primarily in the U.S. and Canada.
CCUMC was a strong presence at the "townhall meetings" preceding passage of
the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The Consortium has produced a
"Policy Statement on the Value of Preserving Film as an Important Document
of our Cultural Heritage," and has conducted surveys of 16mm collections
among their members. They also support ongoing interests in collection
management standards, new technologies, and the changing role of media in
education.
I'm chairing a session at the ARLIS Conference in LA next spring (sponsored
by the Visual Resources Division and the Art & Design School Library
Division) that will introduce our members to the work being done by AMIA
and CCUMC. Panelists for this session are:
Oksana Dykyj, Head, Visual Media Resources, Instructional & Information
Technology Services, Concordia University, Montreal;
Gregory Lukow, Coordinator, Moving Image Archive Studies, UCLA Film and
Television Archive;
David Seubert, Curator, Performing Arts Collections, UCSB;
Linda Tadic, Digital Initiatives Coordinator, Getty Research Institute.
In preparation for this session, I would like to hear from ARLIS members
who are managing motion picture collections (film and/or video) --
especially those which contain any of the following: original works _BY_
artists; rare, endangered, or historic works; archival collections of (or
about) motion pictures. I'd also like to hear about any film or video
cooperatives that our members are participating in.
Will post a questionnaire to ARLIS-L soon, but please feel free to
correspond any time.
Thanks,
Claire
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Claire Eike
Director, The John M. Flaxman Library
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
37 South Wabash Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60603-3103
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312-899-1465 fax
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