Dear Videolib,
Here's the latest update from Video Round Table on our preconference in
San Francisco at ALA2015. Having it offsite -- a short bus ride or 15-20
minute walk from the convention center-- will allow us to have walk-in
registrations. (If you plan to attend but not register through the ALA
site, please let us know.) Come early for delicious breakfast treats.
LOCATION: Ninth Street Independent Film Center, 145 Ninth St.
Friday, June 26, 2015, 10am until 4:00pm. Attend all or some of the four
individual sessions.
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***AMIA @ ALA: Preserving and Promoting Your Library's Audiovisual
Collections**
From members of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, attendees
will learn what libraries can do to protect, preserve, and make use of
their film and video collections. For those to whom A/V stewardship is
new or who may be facing new mandates for "dealing with" the A/V
material in their care, we'll be covering archiving basics
(conservation, preservation, remastering, access). For those familiar
with archival practices, this will be a refreshing interpretation of
those standards (like actually using your 16mm collection). In addition
to learning what libraries can do to protect, preserve, and make use of
their film and video collections, participants will receive a resources
list, a How-To list of Best Practices and a resource list for librarians
without much media format experience.
The four sections in this pre-conference program will address the
storage and use needs of 16mm and VHS formats and players in circulating
or previously circulating collections, share a straightforward plan for
migrating magnetic media collections and examine ongoing efforts to
re-introduce 16mm film into K-12, college, and community classrooms as
both a preservation and an education initiative.
Coffee + cake! 9:30am - 10:00am
Section 1: 10am-11:00am
AMIA @ ALA: How Libraries can Preserve Analog Resources in a Digital World
This program looks at what academic and public libraries can do to
protect, preserve, and make use of their 16mm, U-Matic, and vhs collections.
Section 2: 11:00am-12:00pm
AMIA @ ALA: Don’t Be A Film Wrecker - Best Practices for Storing,
Repairing, and Viewing Film Prints and VHS Tapes
This session is an interactive lecture demonstration addressing the
storage and use needs of 16mm and VHS formats and players in circulating
or previously circulating collections.
Lunch Break! 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Section 3: 1:00pm-2:30pm
AMIA @ ALA: A/V Outsourcing for All: A Step-by-Step Method for
Initiating Video Digitization Projects
Videotape is at the end of its lifetime. Archives must begin migrating
these precious records to digital files without delay. This panel
presents a straightforward plan for migrating magnetic media
collections. UsingNew York University’s Digitizing Video for Long-term
Preservation: An RFP Guide and Template,we will examine all aspects of
the workflow for outsourced digitization projects, including technical
requirements, file formats, metadata, workflow and transfer
specifications, quality assurance, quality control, file naming and file
transfer protocol.
Coffee break! 2:30 pm-2:45pm
Section 4: 2:45pm-4:00pm
AMIA @ ALA: Using Films: Reviving 16mm in the 21st Century Classroom
This panel will examine ongoing efforts to re-introduce 16mm film into
K-12, college, and community classrooms as both a preservation and an
education initiative. Typical 16mm content is often not available in
other formats, and the continued usefulness and adaptability of the
gauge and medium in educational efforts underscores its viability.
Collection assessment efforts at colleges and universities in the U.S.
have yielded local treasures, as well as presumed-lost born-16 films.
Learning environments dedicated to film study can benefit enormously
from this resource, as can public/social history, history of science,
art and advertising, communications, and foreign language, and countless
other disciplinary areas.
-- See more at: http://connect.ala.org/node/238221#sthash.1UyXxdDz.dpuf
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Deborah Benrubi
Technical Services Librarian
University of San Francisco
Gleeson Library|Geschke Center
2130 Fulton St. San Francisco, CA 94117
benr...@usfca.edu
ph. 415.422.5672 fax 415.422.2233
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues
relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control,
preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and
related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective
working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication
between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and
distributors.
