In 2007, the California Preservation Program (CPP) coordinated a statewide preservation needs assessment for California audiovisual collections; 32 libraries and archives from all over the state participated, representing more than a million moving image and sound recordings.
The "California Preservation Survey of Moving Image and Recorded Sound Collections" documented significant threats to the survival of California's heritage of audiovisual recordings. More than half of the recordings in California libraries and archives are considered to have historical significance to their communities and are intended to be archival recordings for future generations—recordings that currently are destined not to survive. (See http://calpreservation.org/management/cppav/av_needs.html for report)
The following conference locally cosponsored by The California Preservation Program is an excellent opportunity for those working with audiovisual media to catch up with current best practices for care of audiovisual collections.
A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media - Presented by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts - November 6 & 7, 2008
Cosponsored and hosted by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Lead Speaker:
Alan Lewis, Audiovisual Archives Consultant, Washington, DC
Speakers:
George Blood, President, Safe Sound Archive
Hannah Frost, Media Preservation Librarian, Digital Library Systems and
Services, Digital Production, Stanford University Libraries & Academic
Information Resources
Sarah Stauderman, Preservation Manager, Smithsonian Institution Archives
Maureen Whalen, Associate General Council, J. Paul Getty Trust
Richard Wright, Technology Manager, BBC Archives, United Kingdom
CCAHA is pleased to offer a limited number of stipends of up to $750 to help defray travel, lodging, and registration costs associated with attending A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media. Detailed program and stipend application information is on the downloadable brochure at http://www.ccaha.org/education/program-calendar
Stipend Eligibility:
* Individuals must work in a non-profit institution that is open
to the public with an annual operating budget of less than $500,000.
* Preference will be given to those applicants who are directly
responsible for the care of the audiovisual materials collected by their
institution.
* Stipend applications must be postmarked by October 8, 2008.
Applicants must submit: one-page letter of interest; a brief institutional profile or brochure; a brief description of audiovisual materials held by the institution; proof of tax-exempt status; the institution's most recent financial report; a letter of support from the institution's director or board president; and the applicant's resume. Applicants will be notified of the status of their application shortly following the application deadline. For additional information on the program and the stipend application process, please download the brochure at http://www.ccaha.org/education/program-calendar
The fee for this two-day program is $200. Funders for this program include the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
In partnership with PALINET and cosponsored by the California Preservation Program.
Download the brochure for A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media at http://www.ccaha.org/education/program-calendar. Apply for a stipend or register now! For more information,
contact the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts at 215-545-0613, email pso@ccaha.org, or visit www.ccaha.org.