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Membership benefits

Are you a library or archive with sound or audiovisual holdings?
Do you work with sound or AV?
Do you want to have a voice in the ongoing changes in sound and AV?

If so, join IASA and work with more than 400 members from over 70 countries.

IASA membership is open to:

  • individuals
  • institutions with audiovisual collections
  • businesses

What are the benefits of membership?

  • read about sound and AV activities and issues in the IASA Journal and members e-newsletter
  • access to members areas on the website (forums, downloads, online journal, members contacts, etc)
  • reduced registration fees to attend annual conferences
  • reduced prices on selected IASA publications
  • entitlement to apply for IASA Research Grants
  • benefit from the resources and programmes of the Training and Education Committee
  • entitlement to vote on Association business and to hold office on the Executive Board
  • entitlement to serve on committees, sections and task forces, attend meetings of the IASA General Assembly, and make recommendations on IASA business
  • opportunities to raise the status of your own AV heritage through strong links with international and national bodies

As a IASA member you can help:

  • set standards and best practices for sound and AV
  • make digital mainstream in sound and AV archives
  • learn, network and exchange information
  • participate in the work of IASA’s Sections and Committees made up of experts who work in specialist fields within sound and AV archiving
  • contribute to influential publications such as TC 03 Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy and TC 04, Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects
  • connect with others through UNESCO and the CCAAA