AMIA 2011
posted March 29, 2011
For the 2011 AMIA Conference in Austin, TX, the AMIA Conference Committee has invited session and workshop proposals on varied topics, cutting-edge discussions of technology, a balance of theory and practice, and new ideas and concepts that may stimulate additional interest, involvement and educational benefit. Submission deadline is May 1 2011 and a form is
Now Hiring
posted March 29, 2011
Blood Audio & Video George Blood Audio & Video, a Philadelphia company specializing in audio and video preservation digitization, is looking for a registrar, permanent, full-time registrar, to start immediately. Prior experience with A/V materials preferred. Duties include: helping clients prepare item-level object and metadata inventory and with shipping inquiries; overseeing shipping/receiving of materials and
Bruckheimer Films Internship
posted March 29, 2011
Jerry Bruckheimer Films in Santa Monica, California, is looking for archive interns for Spring session. Candidates must be able to start in April 2011. Interns will assist the archivist in day-to-day activities and other projects, and will gain experience in cataloging, organizing archival material, and processing materials for the digital collection. Must be enrolled in a
Losing a Princely Sum to Copyright
posted March 23, 2011
The Guardian reports on the perils of not doing much to alter the images you appropriate. A federal judge in New York has found that lucrative American artist Richard Prince must destroy works he made from barely modified photographs that he took from a book by French photographer Patrick Cariou, and that Prince had in
Thesis Time in New York
posted March 20, 2011
Do students at at New York University’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program have their finger on the pulse of moving-image archiving? Next week, they present their end-of-program projects, on topics that range through archiving newsfilm collections, preserving web sites, archiving movie trailers, identifying film stock, projecting archival film, and the effects of copyright on
Thesis Time in New York City
posted March 20, 2011
Thesis-presentation time is upon students in New York University’s two-year Moving Image Archiving and Preservation program. March 28, as part of the requirements for a master of arts degree, candidates will present an academic paper, a preservation project, or a professional portfolio. Do their subjects provide some sense of the moving-image-archivist zeitgeist? Their topics range
Archives Preservation Roadshow
posted March 19, 2011
Here’s an event in Seattle to emulate, in your home town. On May 14 2011 – all free of charge – archivists and museum professionals will answer questions from members of the public interested in learning how to better preserve their personal and family archival materials – photographs, books, movies, and other materials including digital
Destroying an Embarrassing Archive
posted March 18, 2011
Why does the Hungarian ruling party want to allow communist-era archives to be destroyed? And who objects?
Dispute Continues Over Hungarian Plan to Allow Destruction of Communist-Era Archives
posted March 18, 2011
Why does the Hungarian ruling party want to allow communist-era archives to be destroyed?
UCLA Festival of Preservation
posted March 16, 2011
In Los Angeles until the end of this month (March 2011), you can catch what remains of the outstanding 2011 UCLA Festival of Preservation, with its extraordinary range of the gems that UCLA Film & Television Archive has preserved and restored. Also this month, the Archive is going live with a new, interactive website that