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IASA 2011 elections

Dear IASA member!

The year 2011 is election year for IASA.

The Nominating Committee hereby invites nominations for the following Board positions:

  • President
  • Three Vice-Presidents
  • Editor
  • Secretary-General
  • Treasurer

Please observe that all nominations must include proposer, seconder and name of nominee together with the office for which he/she is being nominated.

New report on recorded sound preservation in the USA

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has published "the first comprehensive, national-level study of the state of sound recording preservation ever conducted in the U.S.". Commissioned for and sponsored by the National Recording Preservation Board, Library of Congress, the 169-page report, titled The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States: A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age, may be ordered or dowloaded here: http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub148abst.html

ARSC Conference 2011: Call for Presentations

The Association for Recorded Sound Collections invites proposals for presentations at its 45th annual conference, to be held May 11-14, 2011, in Los Angeles.

ARSC welcomes papers on the preservation and study of sound recordings--in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. We seek papers and panels that are informative, display a passion for their subjects, and include compelling audio and visual content.

IASA-AMIA joint Conference: 2-6 November, Philadelphia, USA

The 41st Annual IASA Conference will be held jointly with AMIA (Association of Moving Image Archivists) at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel in Philadelphia November 2-6, 2010, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Please find all conference information as well as the submission form on the conference website at www.iasa-conference.com

hashtag: #iasamia10

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