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This article from the Straits Times is a rare public celebration of an AV conservationist and may be of interest to the wider IASA family.

http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/restoring-sights-and-sounds-past-...

Thanks to George Boston for passing it on from the British and Irish Sound Archives (a multi-national IASA branch).

As a service to the sound and audiovisual archives community, IASA is gradually making available for free on the IASA website all back copies of its journal since 1993 and the journal's predecessor, the IASA Phonographic Bulletin (1971-1993):
http://www.iasa-web.org/iasa-journal

We are however missing spare copies of the following:
IASA Journal: issues nos. 2, 3, 23 and 26
IASA Phonographic Bulletin: issues 1 to 33 inclusive, plus issues 35, 37, 50 and 55.

Applications for Travel Awards are now open and all IASA members in good standing are welcome to apply to the attend the 46th Annual Conference which will be hosted at the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris, France from 27 September to 1 October 2015. Please visit http://www.2015.iasa-web.org/ for more information on the conference. For more information on the Travel Award application process please visit http://www.iasa-web.org/travel-awards.

Indiana University announces the release of free, open source media preservation prioritization software created in collaboration with AVPreserve.

MediaSCORE (Media Selection: Condition, Obsolescence, and Risk Evaluation) enables a detailed analysis of degradation and obsolescence risk factors for most analog and physical digital audio and video formats.

MediaRIVERS (Media Research and Instructional Value Evaluation and Ranking System) guides a structured assessment of research and instructional value for media holdings.