Last Chance!  This will be the final presentation of our popular AV Media preservation program! 

After a span of two years and eight cities across the USA, this is your last opportunity to attend this essential program on preserving your collection’s heritage audiovisual materials.

 

A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media

Presented by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts

 

October 20 & 21, 2009

Hosted and cosponsored by Atlanta History Center

Atlanta, GA

 

This program is intended for curators, collection managers, librarians, archivists, and other staff who are involved in managing machine-based media collections in cultural institutions. 

 

Register online at http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=1ab44fbf-f482-4894-8765-3ce15b9178ad

 

Sessions:

·        Overview of Machine-Based AV Media Identification and Preservation

·        Reformatting Options for AV Media

·        Contracting for AV Preservation Services

·        Surveying and Selecting AV Media Materials for Preservation and Access

·        Funding Opportunities for AV Preservation

·        Case Studies and Panel Discussions

 

Lead Speaker:

Alan Lewis, Audiovisual Archives Consultant, Washington, DC

Speakers:

Ruta Abolins, Director, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, GA

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

Thomas F.R. Clareson, Senior Consultant for New Initiatives, Lyrasis, Philadelphia, PA

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

 

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.  Presented in partnership with Lyrasis. 

 

The Academy of Certified Archivists (ACA) will award 10 Accreditation Recertification Credits (ARCs) to Certified Archivists (CAs) who attend.

 

Register online at http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=1ab44fbf-f482-4894-8765-3ce15b9178ad.  For more information, visit our Education Program Calendar at www.ccaha.org, call 215-545-0613 or email [log in to unmask].

 

A limited number of $750 stipends are available to staff from non-profit institutions with annual budgets of less than $500,000.  Eligibility requirements and stipend application information available here or at 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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