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**Please excuse cross-posting** I am the Preservation Coordinator for the Bay Area Video Coalition, a non-profit organization committed to inspiring social change by empowering media makers to tell diverse stories through art, education and technology. Our Preservation Program partners with libraries, museums, arts organizations and artists to preserve and digitize precious works of media art and other cultural artifacts. You can learn more about us at https://www.bavc.org/preservation. We have a new program that may be of interest to those on this list. Through generous funding from the National Endowment for the Arts *BAVC is offering tools for collection assessment,preservation planning support, and deeply discounted preservation transfer services through an application process*. Artists, arts organizations, and collections with arts-related content can receive resources, tools, and project updates for free and selected projects will receive discounted preservation services. To learn more about this program see: http://www.bavc.org/preservation-access-program . May Info Session: If you missed the info session you can watch it here: http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=Ez1br24eZwM&feature=youtu.be Or simply see the slides here: http://bavc.org/preservation-access-program -presentation Application: The application is due *July 17*. We will be accepting a second round of applications in January 2014. The application can be found here: https://www.bavc.org/PresAccess-application Please pass this along to anyone who could benefit from these services. Thank you, Jennifer Brice Preservation Coordinator Bay Area Video Coalition 2727 Mariposa St. 2nd Floor San Francisco, CA 94110 415-558-2109 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~