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IASA member Bertram Lyons, recently appointed as IASA Editor, will answer questions from New York Times readers interested in preserving their audio and visual material in analogue and digital media, as well as related documents. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/23/booming/advice-on-how-to-preserve-your...

IASA: Applications for Travel Grants 2013 – deadline extension!

Applications for Travel Grants are still open and IASA members are welcome to apply for a travel grant to attend the Joint IASA-BAAC 2013 conference http://2013.iasa-web.org in Vilnius, Lithuania 6 - 10 October.

For more information on this membership benefit please visit http://www.iasa-web.org/travel-awards

http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2013/13-044.html

Audiovisual Citation: Guidelines for referencing sound and moving image resources

Despite the exponential increase in the use of audiovisual material in teaching, learning and research in higher and further education, existing guidelines for the referencing of sound and moving image are insufficient as they are based on standards developed for the written word. This has the effect of discouraging the citing of sound and moving image, as well as creating barriers in its discovery, use and re-use.