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Deadline Approaching! Stipend applications must be postmarked by June 9, 2008

Is your institution eligible for our stipend to offset attendance costs?   Apply now!

 

A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media

Presented by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts

 

July 24 and 25, 2008

Boston, MA

 

Speaker List:

Lead Speaker, Alan Lewis, Audiovisual Archives Consultant, Washington, DC

David Ackerman, Audio Preservation Engineer, Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

George Blood, President, Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, PA 

Tom Clareson, Program for New Initiatives, PALINET, Philadelphia, PA

Sarah Stauderman, Preservation Manager and Archives Conservator, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, DC

 

CCAHA is pleased to offer a limited number of stipends of up to $750 to help defray travel, lodging, and registration costs associated with attending A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media.  Detailed program and stipend application information is on the downloadable brochure at http://www.ccaha.org/workshop_cal.php .

 

Stipend Eligibility:

·        Individuals must work in a non-profit institution that is open to the public with an annual operating budget of less than $500,000.

·        Preference will be given to those applicants who are directly responsible for the care of the audiovisual materials collected by their institution.

·        Stipend applications must be postmarked by June 9, 2008.

 

Applicants must submit: one-page letter of interest; a brief institutional profile or brochure; a brief description of audiovisual materials held by the institution; proof of tax-exempt status; the institution’s most recent financial report; a letter of support from the institution’s director or board president; and the applicant’s resume.

 

Applicants will be notified of the status of their application four weeks prior to the program.  For additional information on the program and the stipend application process, please download the brochure at http://www.ccaha.org/workshop_cal.php .

 

The fee for this two-day program is $200.  Funders for this program include the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 

 

In partnership with PALINET

Local cosponsors include Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science; Weissman Preservation Center, Harvard University Library and Preservation & Imaging Services and Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library, Harvard College Library; and the Northeast Document Conservation Center.

 

Download the brochure at http://www.ccaha.org/workshop_cal.php and apply for a stipend or register now!

 

For more information, contact the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts:  call 215-545-0613, email [log in to unmask] or visit www.ccaha.org.

 

 

Kim Andrews

Preservation Services Officer

CONSERVATION CENTER for Art and Historic Artifacts

264 S. 23rd Street

Philadelphia, PA  19103

215-545-0613 (phone)

215-735-9313 (fax)

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www.ccaha.org

 

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