Forwarded from ARSCLIST: A Celebration of World Day for Audiovisual Heritage: Announcing the IUB Media Preservation Initiative Wednesday Oct. 27, 2010 at 4:00 p.m. EDT
The Bloomington campus of Indiana University is home to over half a million audio, video, and film recordings, many of which are historically and culturally significant. In October 2009 , IU became the first university to conduct a comprehensive survey of its media holdings, identifying more than 560,000 recordings and reels of motion picture film stored on campus. Over 40 percent of these recordings are unique or rare and include Orson Wells' Mercury Theatre radio programs, Native American music from the 1890s, IU Basketball games from the 1940s, home movies of Hoagy Carmichael, early concerts by world famous performers like Joshua Bell and János Starker, original films by D.W. Griffith, Cecil B. DeMille, and Peter Bogdanovich, and interviews with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, and Quincy Jones. These recordings and thousands more exist on media formats that are at serious risk for content loss. IU has commissioned the Media Preservation Initiative task force to create a solution for the long-term preservation of these valuable holdings as well as plans for greater access to these recordings, many of which are not accessible at present. This special session, coinciding with World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, will serve as the public launch of the Media Preservation Initiative and will feature presentations that highlight IUB's media holdings and discuss the planning phase of the initiative. Presentations will be made by Alan Burdette and Mike Casey from the Archives of Traditional Music, Jon Dunn, Director of the Digital Library Program, and Rachael Stoeltje, Film Archivist for the IU Libraries. The session will be held from 4:00 - 5:00p.m. on Wednesday Oct. 27, 2010 in E174 of the Wells Library, Indiana University Bloomington. Those not able to attend are invited to follow the session online via a live audio stream accompanied by PowerPoint slides. The URL for the stream is: http://breeze.iu.edu/diglib This presentation is part of Special Collections Month at Indiana University < http://www.libraries.iub.edu/?pageId=1002072 > Brenda Nelson-Strauss Archives of African American Music & Culture Indiana University 2805 E. 10th Street, Suite 180 Bloomington, IN 47408 www.blackgrooves.org http://www.indiana.edu/~aaamc/ [email protected]
VIDEOLIB is intended to encourage the broad and lively discussion of issues relating to the selection, evaluation, acquisition,bibliographic control, preservation, and use of current and evolving video formats in libraries and related institutions. It is hoped that the list will serve as an effective working tool for video librarians, as well as a channel of communication between libraries,educational institutions, and video producers and distributors.
