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SUSTAINABLE AUDIOVISUAL COLLECTIONS THROUGH COLLABORATION

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF SINGAPORE, GALLERY THEATRE, BASEMENT: 7TH-9TH MARCH, 2016

The Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) explores the technical issues affecting the long term survival and accessibility of audiovisual collections. JTS is an international symposium and brings together the world’s foremost research and thinking regarding the preservation and accessibility of moving image and recorded sound collections, from 19th century endeavours to the most recent digital technologies.

Dear friends,

Registration for the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives 2015 annual conference, "All for One -- One for All: Common Concerns -- Shared Solutions", is now open and available online at: http://2015.iasa-web.org

Our 46th annual conference is being hosted 27 September through 1 October by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in the city of light, Paris, France.

The new ARSC Guide to Audio Preservation, edited by Sam Brylawski, Maya Lerman, Robin Pike, Kathlin Smith was released recently.

Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Recording Preservation Board of the Library of Congress, and co-published by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections, the Council on Library and Information Resources, and The Library of Congress.

In 2014, AVPreserve and the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, undertook an in-depth, multi-faceted assessment to quantify the existing audio items held in institutional collections throughout the United States. This was performed in response to The Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan and its call for the appraisal of collections, as well as to establish a foundation for articulating the current preservation need of sound recordings in collections nationwide.