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Call for
participation: MIC Archive Directory
MIC:
Moving Image Collections is now soliciting entries for its international
online directory of moving image repositories. Whether you are a moving image archive,
or simply hold a few film titles as part of a larger general collection, we
invite you to register your organization with MIC. By listing your institution, you join a
groundbreaking initiative to provide access to moving images worldwide, and
contribute to further collaboration, research, and mentoring in the archival
moving image community. Any
institution holding moving image materials is eligible for a Directory
entry.
To complete
an Archive Directory form with:
go to: http://gondolin.rutgers.edu/MIC/text/how/directory_guidelines.htm. Submit your form in hard copy using a PDF form (type or complete by hand, then mail), or complete it in Word for easy emailing. Web input form coming soon.
We need a
significant number of completed Directory entries in order to program the
complex interactions between the Directory, the Union Catalog, and the
Website. Please participate in this
critical area of MIC development!
For more information, please
contact MIC Project Coordinator Jane Johnson: [log in to unmask].
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Moving Image Collections (MIC, pronounced 'mike') is a
Portal for discovery of moving images and resources to facilitate collaborative
cataloging, preservation, exhibition, and digitization activities. It includes a union catalog,
international directory of moving image repositories, cataloging utility,
education/outreach space, and dynamic and static portals based on user-selected
criteria.
MIC is a collaboration between the Association of Moving
Image Archivists (AMIA) and the Library of Congress. It has received funding from the
National Science Foundation and is a participant in the National Science Digital
Library. Alpha implementer sites,
all with significant moving image collections in analog and digital format,
include the Library of Congress, Cable News Network (CNN), Fortunoff Video
Archive for Holocaust Testimonies, National Geographic Television, National
Library of Medicine, Northeast Historic Film, Oregon Health and Sciences
University, Pacific Film Archive, the Peabody Collection at the University of
Georgia Libraries, the Prelinger Collection at the Internet Archive,
ResearchChannel, the Smithsonian Institution, and Wisconsin Center for Film and
Theater Research.
The Library of Congress will host MIC. Developer sites are Rutgers, the State
University of New Jersey, Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of
Washington.
See the MIC Project website
(http://gondolin.rutgers.edu/MIC/)
for new developments and documentation of past, current, and future work on the
project. As the actual MIC portal
is developed, it will be available for ongoing review and will be accessible
from the MIC project website. The
MIC project website is updated frequently, so check back
often!