Date:
3 Nov 2014 to 14 Nov 2014
Today sound and image records account for a large portion of the world’s memory and are found in diverse social memory institutions. As documents of intangible heritage and contemporary culture, they are of immense value. Yet archives, museums, libraries and other cultural institutions around the world are struggling to conserve their sound and image collections in both analogue and digital formats. Moreover, conservation of sound and image materials is complex and requires specialized guidance, skills and infrastructure.
Date:
13 Jul 2015 to 16 Jul 2015
The International Council on Archives Section on University and Research Institution Archives (ICA-SUV) will hold its annual conference 13-16 July 2015 at the University of North Carolina’s Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library in Chapel Hill, N.C., USA. The Scientific Committee for the 2015 ICA-SUV Conference invites proposals for papers addressing the preservation, discovery, rights, and knowledge, skills, and capacity challenges surrounding audiovisual archives. The deadline for proposals is 1 December 2014. Click here for the full call for proposals.
Date:
27 Oct 2014 to 31 Oct 2014
El Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, a través de la Coordinación Nacional de Conservación del Patrimonio Cultural y la Escuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía con la Colaboración de Fundación JUMEX, les complace invitarlos al Simposio Internacional de Preservación Audiovisual y Digital: Archivos Contemporáneos.
Submitted by Richard Ranft on Sat, 23/08/2014 - 19:45
ARSC is pleased to recognize outstanding published research in the field of recorded sound with our annual Awards for Excellence. The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is pleased to announce the winners of the 2014 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Begun in 1991, the awards are presented to authors and publishers of books, articles, liner notes, and monographs, to recognize outstanding published research in the field of recorded sound.
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