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Issue No 4, May 2008 |
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Get Involved and Get Credit |
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For the past few years the IASA Executive Board has tried to encourage members to participate more in the work of the Association, especially by running for the Board. The lack of financial support from member's institutions has become very challenging.
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IASA in Sydney |
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The IASA-ASRA 2008 Conference, No Archive is an Island, will take place in Sydney at the Australian National Maritime Museum. Please visit the conference website www.iasa2008.com to see the venue and our plans to date. Registration will open in the near future.
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IASA Executive Board Elections 2008 |
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This year, the current term of IASA Board Members expires and elections are due. The Election Committee has been active in composing a slate of candidates for the Board Elections 2008.
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Travel Grants for IASA Members |
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The deadline for applications for travel grants to attend the IASA Conference in Sydney has been extended to 15 June 2008.
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Sponsor another IASA Member |
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The IASA Executive Board would like to encourage IASA members to sponsor IASA members from the developing world to attend the annual IASA Conference.
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New members |
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IASA welcomes the following new members....
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Membership Dues have Increased |
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The IASA Membership fees have not been increased since 2000. Since then, operating costs, and our ambitions, have grown. The IASA membership agreed to an increase of the Membership dues during the 2007 Annual Conference in Riga.
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CCAAA meets in Paris |
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The Coordinating Council of Audio Visual Archives Associations (CCAAA) held its annual meeting in Paris on March 14, 2008. President Richard Green and Secretary-General Gunnel Jönsson attended on behalf of IASA.
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IASA represented at EDLnet |
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Since 1997, the European National Libraries have been striving for a closer co-operation over a network, starting first with a joint web portal and giving then step by step also access to at least digital collections of the major national libraries. Albrecht Häfner represented IASA at a recent European Digital Library thematic network meeting.
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IASA represented at the VIDEO ACTIVE Advisory Board |
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VIDEO ACTIVE is a research project funded by the e ContentPlus programme of the European Commission with a lifespan of three years (2006 – 2009). The major aim is to create access to European TV archives fort academic and educational purposes.
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NFSA becomes Statutory Authority |
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Legislation to establish the Australian National Film and Sound Archive as an independent statutory authority passed through the Australian Parliament in February and received the royal assent on 20 March 2008. The NFSA Act will fully come into force on 1 July. Ray Edmondson reports...
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iPRES 2008: Call for Papers |
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The British Library is hosting the Fifth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects (iPRES 2008) at Conference Centre in St Pancras on 20 & 20 September 2008. The event is one of the major conferences in the digital preservation calendar and attracts around 250 delegates from around the world and 50 speakers.
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Media in Motion: The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age |
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The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance and Media@McGill invite submissions of abstracts for the presentation of papers at the inaugural Media in Motion Symposium. Submissions related to the conference theme, ”The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age,” are strongly encouraged.
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IACH Workshop at ECDL 2008 |
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Organised in conjunction with The Information Access to Cultural Heritage (IACH) workshop held in conjunction with the 12th European Conference On Research And Advanced Technology For Digital Libraries (ECDL 2008) http://www.ecdl2008.org will bring together academics carrying out research in the area of information access and practitioners working in the cultural heritage field.
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New San José Gateway Programs in Library and Information Science |
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The School of Library and Information Science at San José State University is pleased to announce its new San José Gateway PhD Program. The doctoral degree will be offered through a partnership with the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) – a top Australian university with global connections and leading scholars in the information science community.
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New TAPE Publications |
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TAPE (Training for Audiovisual Preservation in Europe) has recently published three reports regarding audiovisual collections. These reports are either on-line or may be ordered from TAPE.
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CCAHA's AV Media Preservation Program |
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A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media, a two day conference presented by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts to take place from 24-25 July 2008 in Boston.
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BISA conference in Aberystwyth, Wales |
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BISA (British & Irish Sound Archives) will be holding their annual meeting at the National Screen & Sound Archive of Wales from 23-24 May 2008, and all are welcome to attend. The meeting offers a great chance for audio archivists from around the British Isles to get together and discuss issues of common interest, formally and informally.
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Archiving and Digitization: Dreams and Nightmares |
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In this year’s SEAPAVAA conference, the popular SEAPAVAA “Archive Gems" Screenings Evening will take place again. This film show will feature rare and interesting footage from our members’ archives.
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Next Issue |
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Please send copy for the next INFORMATION BULLETIN (NO 60) by 15 June 2008
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