A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media
Presented by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
July 29 & 30, 2009
Hosted and cosponsored by: Western History/ Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
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Oregon Public Broadcasting Selects Stations to Participate in the American Archive Pilot Program
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A Race Against Time: Preserving Our Audiovisual Media
Presented by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
July 29 & 30, 2009
Hosted and cosponsored by: Western History/ Genealogy Department, Denver Public Library, Denver, CO
Deadline Approaching – register online now at http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?5S,M3,1f784d82-9a05-4d14-bca5-9da86545c149 before July 15 to ensure your place in this popular program. This program is intended for curators, collection managers, librarians, archivists, and other staff who manage audiovisual media collections.
Sessions:
- Overview of Machine-Based AV Media Identification and Preservation
- Reformatting Options for AV Media
- Contracting for AV Preservation Services
- Surveying and Selecting AV Media Materials for Preservation and Access
- Funding Opportunities for AV Preservation and Access
- AV Preservation Case Study and Speaker Panel
Lead Speaker:
Alan Lewis, Audiovisual Archives Consultant, Washington, DC
Speakers:
George Blood, President, Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, PA
Thomas F.R. Clareson, Program Director for New Initiatives, Lyrasis, Philadelphia, PA
Anna L. Scott, Archivist, Aspen Historical Society, Aspen, CO
Sarah Stauderman, Preservation Manager, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, DC
The fee for this two-day program is $200. The Academy of Certified Archivists (ACA) will award 10 Accreditation Recertification Credits (ARCs) to Certified Archivists (CAs) who attend.
Funders for this program include the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Presented in partnership with Lyrasis. Also cosponsored by BCR, Denver, CO.
Register online at http://guest.cvent.com/i.aspx?5S,M3,1f784d82-9a05-4d14-bca5-9da86545c149. CCAHA will conduct this program for the FINAL TIME in Atlanta, GA in October 2009. For more information, visit our Education Program Calendar at www.ccaha.org, call 215-545-0613 or email pso@ccaha.org.
Kim Andrews
Preservation Services Officer
CONSERVATION CENTER for Art and Historic Artifacts
264 S. 23rd Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215-545-0613 (phone)
215-735-9313 (fax)
kandrews@ccaha.org
www.ccaha.org
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Oregon Public Broadcasting Selects Stations to Participate in the American Archive Pilot Program
Portland, OR – June 26, 2009 Oregon Public Broadcasting (OPB) has named twenty-five stations to participate in Phase I of the American Archive Pilot Program. Each station will receive a grant of up to $10,000 to locate and inventory video and audio content for the archive prototype. Selected stations will receive grants pending successful contract negotiations.
“This list is a relevant representation of both radio and TV stations both geographically and in terms of the type of content they bring to the pilot project,” said Patricia Lanas-Espinosa of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, “And I am sure we will derive very valuable and relevant information.”
Participating television stations include: WTVS, Detroit; WNET, New York; WHUT, Howard University in Washington, DC; VPT, Colchester, VT; LETA, Baton Rouge, LA; KCPT, Kansas City, MO; IPTV, Johnston, IA; and AETN, Conway, AR.
Participating radio stations include: WYSO, Antioch University, Yellow Springs, OH; MPR, St. Paul, MN; and KFPA, Berkeley, CA.
Participating joint licensees, radio and television, include: WTTW, Chicago; WSIU, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL; WPT/WPR, Madison, WI; WGBH, Boston; WVIZ/WCPN, Cleveland; WQED, Pittsburgh; WOUB, Ohio University, Athens, OH; WKNO, Memphis; WILL, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL; WCNY, Liverpool, NY; WMPN, Oxford, MS; KUON-DT, Lincoln, NE; KQED, San Francisco, CA; and TPBA, Texas.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting launched this pilot program to determine what it will take to restore, digitize, archive and index public broadcasting’s deteriorating collections of historical television and radio content. Oregon Public Broadcasting is the Initiative Manager of the project.
For the prototype, stations will catalog content related to the American Civil Rights Movement and more recently produced companion material to Ken Burns’s The War series. CPB wants to sample material from different broadcasting eras to make sure the archive prototype can work with content in a wide variety of formats.
Once stations have identified relevant content, OPB will review their inventories, and select stations to continue into Phase II, restoring and digitizing the material, and entering the data into a database. In the future, CPB hopes to secure additional funding to establish a much larger library of historic public broadcasting media with a goal of making thousands of hours of material available to educators, students and the general public.
CONTACT: Pat Kruis, Oregon Public Broadcasting pkruis@opb.org 503.293.1933