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To mark World Radio Day 2018, a collection of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) Latvian service broadcasts will be formally opened on February 15 at the Audiovisual reading room of the National Library of Latvia (NLL).

IASA releases revised edition of The Safeguarding of the Audiovisual Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy (IASA-TC 03)

The Landmark publication The Safeguarding of the Audiovisual Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy (IASA-TC 03) has been republished, with extensive revisions.

IASA is pleased to highlight some of the presentations from this year's annual conference in Berlin. The following summary comes to us from Françoise Acquier, Henri Chamoux, Aude Da Cruz Lima, Veronique Ginouvès, Thomas Henry, and Joséphine Simonnot.

The CNRS Sound Archives provided to the European Library through Europeana Sounds. 

The audio archives recorded in the field of scientific research are scarcely accessible online. They raise several ethical and legal questions, as well as those about the relationships between different types of archives and the diversification of metadata formats. Through the Europeana Sounds project, for the first time, four research teams from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) worked together with sound archives to build a new network of resources and skills.

The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision today is releasing its new White Paper, Towards a New Audiovisual Think Tank for Audiovisual Archivists and Cultural Heritage Professionals. The White Paper, the first effort from a new ‘AV Think Tank’ on audiovisual archiving initiated by Sound and Vision, aims to facilitate stakeholders active in the preservation of audiovisual heritage to identify their strategic priorities over the coming decade.