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Registration Deadline: Friday, October 11th for:
A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media
Presented by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
(CCAHA)
October 24 & 25, 2007
Cleveland, OH
Held at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Cosponsored by PALINET
Local Cosponsors:
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum
Intermuseum Conservation Association (ICA)
This program is intended for curators, librarians, archivists,
collection managers, and other staff involved in managing machine-based
media collections in cultural institutions.
About the program
Many of the machine-readable audiovisual collections held by our
cultural institutions are in peril. Therefore, it is crucial to have
knowledge about the life expectancy and unique needs of our legacy media
in order to make good preservation decisions. From videotapes and
audiotapes to motion picture film, film strips, LPs, 78s, magnetic tape,
wax cylinders, and audiocassettes, each of these formats has a critical
point at which information will begin to be lost.
The challenge of long-term preservation for these formats is that they
often require intervention, including cleaning and reformatting. To
maximize the life of these materials, one must understand the nature of
the media, causes of deterioration, storage and handling practices, and
the various types of playback equipment. Through lectures, discussion,
and hands-on experiences, participants in this two-day program will
learn the basic principles for managing audiovisual collections that
contain historic formats. Contracting with vendors and funding
strategies will also be discussed.
Progarm Speakers
Lead Speaker
Alan Lewis, Audiovisual Archives Consultant, Washington, DC
With:
George Blood, President, Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, PA
Lisa R. Carter, Director of Archives, University of Kentucky Libraries'
Special Collections and Digital Programs, University of Kentucky,
Lexington, KY
Thomas F.R. Clareson, Program Director, New Initiatives, PALINET
Susan L. Malbin, Senior Program Officer, Institute of Museum and Library
Services
John Walko, Media Archive Manager, Scene Savers, Cincinnati, OH
FUNDERS
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
For a program brochure and registration form
Please visit our website at http://www.ccaha.org/workshop_cal.php. For
questions about the program, call CCAHA's Preservation Services office
at 215.545.0613.
Kelly Ferguson
Office Assistant
Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
264 South 23rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
P: 215.545.0613
F: 215.735.9313
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