Cette fête est devenue un jour de fête nationale qu’en 1880, après avoir été validée par l’Assemblée et le Sénat de cette même année après que le député Benjamin Raspail dépose la loi faisant du 14 juillet, la fête nationale annuelle française en commémoration du 14 juillet 1790 qu’est la fête de la Fédération. Celle-ci a été voulue par le général et homme politique qu’a été le marquis de La Fayette, ceci pour marquer la fin de la monarchie absolue en France et le premier anniversaire de la prise de la Bastille.

L’histoire en bref…

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When I was about twelve I had this old radio that crackled and made funny noises but it followed me everywhere I went. I remember hearing one day « I keep a close watch on this heart of mine, I keep my eyes wide open all the time.. »  I fell in love! Right after I heard « Your cheatin’ heart will make you weep you’ll cry and cry and try to sleep… »  That was it! I then became a major country music fan. So what can I say.. I always have a little fondness when I sell film cans to the The Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum.

This weeks post is about one of our loyal customers, just a brief description of who they are, for more information I strongly recommend you visit their website: http://countrymusichalloffame.org/

They are operated by the non-profit, educational Country Music Foundation (CMF). The mission of the Country Music Hall of Fame^® and Museum is to identify and preserve the evolving history and traditions of country music and to educate its audiences. Functioning as a local history museum and as an international arts organization, the Country Music Hall of Fame^® and Museum serves visiting and non-visiting audiences including fans, students, scholars, members of the music industry.

It’s in 1961 that the Country Music Association created the Country Music Hall of Hame, the first inductees were Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams & Fred Rose. So many throughout the years, just to name a few: Patsy Cline in 1973, Johnny Cash in 1980, Elvis Presley in 1998, Alabama in 2005 and to finish off in 2011 with Bobby Braddock, Reba McEntire & Jean Shepard.

The Museum is open every day from 9am to 5pm. I do believe I will have to make a visit to Nashville one of these days!

« Country music is still devoted to the lyric and to the telling of stories, which people love and people need. Country music artists took what they heard around them, material that was in the air and that was common currency, and they made something entirely new. This is a museum that preserves their memory so that they can continue to inspire creators in the future. It’s also a museum that honors the people who their music was made for. Those people are all of us, people who’ve ever been lost or confused or sad or felt excluded. This museum helps to preserve these tributes to our condition. »

– Garrison Keillor

Thank you for the confidence you place in STiL products!

À la veille de cette fête de la Saint-Jean-Baptiste, j’ai voulu vous partager un peu l’histoire derrière cette fête maintenant devenu une journée fériée depuis 1925.

Les origines des célébrations du 24 juin sont immémoriales. Chez les païens, le solstice d’été qui, selon le calendrier julien, tombait le 24 juin, était célébré par des feux de nuit symbolisant la puissance fertilisante du soleil, ces feux de joie demeurant encore aujourd’hui le symbole le plus ancien de la fête. En plus de son caractère de rite de passage saisonnier, la fête du solstice d’été marquait également un jalon dans le cycle de production agricole, alors que s’entamaient les grands travaux agricoles qui ne s’achèveraient qu’à la fin de l’été.^[] Pour lutter contre le paganisme, les évêques implantent des sanctuaires de Saint Jean Baptiste dont la fête doit se substituer au culte des divinités barbares. Plus largement, la fête prit, au sein de la cosmogonie chrétienne, une importance non négligeable, marquant, à six mois exactement, le pendant de la naissance du Christ célébrée par la fête de Noël qui symbolise elle-même, avec le solstice d’hiver (le jour le plus court de l’année), le début du triomphe de la lumière sur les ténèbres.

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2011 Rockefeller Archive Center Visiting Archivist Fellowship

The Rockefeller Archive Center, in cooperation with the Association of Moving Image Archivists, has established The AMIA/Rockefeller Visiting Archivist Fellowship – a unique opportunity to encourage professional exchange and enhance professional development. Designed to provide both financial assistance and first-hand experience, the AMIA/Rockefeller Visiting Archivist Fellowship is awarded each year to a professional archivist from the developing world interested in improving their skills and knowledge through a program at the Rockefeller Archive Center and attendance at the AMIA Annual Conference.

The Visiting Archivist receives a $2,500 stipend to cover the cost of housing, food and local transportation, reasonable round-trip travel expenses from his/her place of residence to New York and to/from the AMIA Conference, up to $3,500, and complementary registration to the 2011 AMIA Annual Conference in Austin, Texas.

To apply for the 2011 Rockefeller Archive Visiting Archivist Fellowship, go to:  http://www.amianet.org/events/rockefeller.php The deadline is June 30, 2011.

They say that excellent customer service is the ability of an organization to constantly and consistently exceed the customer’s expectations.  Improving customer service involves making a commitment to learning what our customers’ needs and wants are, and developing action plans that implement customer friendly processes.

We would like to thank the following organizations that in the past couple of months decided to make their first purchase from STiL Casing Solution and therfore made the leap to top quality products !

• Alaska Moving Image Preservation
• Canadian Centre for Architecture
• Columbia University
• Office of Presidential Libraries
• University at Albany
• DeMott/Kreines Films

Thank you!

We came across this press release this week and are happy to share this news of one of our loyal customers; Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT).

Belgian Broadcaster Will Deploy New Managed Digital Archive of Content on Some 150,000 CDs

VIENNA, Austria – May 30, 2011 — NOA Audio Solutions, provider of the world’s most functional and effective audio archiving systems, today announced that the Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroep (VRT), the major Flemish-language broadcaster in Belgium, will base its new digital music archive on NOA mediaARC.  The installation — which includes mediARC with 10 clients, associated software including mediARC Web and MediaButler transcoding, as well as several NOA IngestLine CD-Lector migration devices – will be complete later this year.

« We were really impressed with the comprehensiveness of the NOA bid and with the technology they can provide, » said Tom Caljon, VRT project manager. « NOA’s unique knowledge of archiving and search best practices will help make it possible for VRT users to find what they are looking for in our database for years to come — even with millions of entries to choose from. »

VRT also cited NOA’s commitment to making specific features developed for VRT available as part of its off-the-shelf mediARC and IngestLine products, thus ensuring continued availability, support, and upgrades so the broadcaster can be confident its technology stays up to date. Along with superior cost-effectiveness, that was a crucial advantage VRT identified in NOA over its competition.

NOA’s flagship mediARC system combines precisely targeted metadata association and a powerful workflow solution to enable successful storage, distribution, and repurposing — including transcoding – of media content. The NOA CD-Lector is a high-volume, semi-automated system that extracts audio from CDs into digital audio objects, delivering optimal results even when the original is heavily damaged. During the ingest process, CD-Lector performs both algorithmic analysis and advanced metadata retrieval.

Click here to know more about the VRT!

Spring has been a very busy season for STiL, conferences, new projects, new clients.. and it continues! It is my pleasure to announce you that we will be proudly showing our whole line of STiL Products at the ACA (Association of Canadian Archivists) Conference that will be held in Toronto from June 2nd to 4th, 2011! We will be at booth #2! This year’s theme is « Back to Basics?? »

Our products are the result of many years of research and experiments in the field  with the help of archivists and preservation technicians. At the end, we have been able to put together a state of the art preservation system for all media in analog and digital preservation.

We are looking forward to shaking hands and sharing about our products.

Enjoy the conference and hope to see you there!

For more information on the conference: http://archivists.ca/content/annual-conference

http://www.arsc-audio.org/conference/

Nouvellement membre cette année du ARSC (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) nous avons le plaisir cette année de participer à la Conférence. Elle sera tenue au Wilshire Grand à Los Angeles du 11 auy 14 mai, 2011.  N’hésitez pas a venir nous rencontrer! 

Tous les produits STIL Solution Boîtier ont trouvés leurs qualités grâce à de nombreuses recherches et expérimentations sur le terrain. Que ce soit pour la préservation d’œuvres cinématographiques, de bandes audio ou de données numériques, STIL Solution Boîtier possède la meilleure solution dans chaque cas.

Nous avons hâte de vous rencontrer et discuter avec vous!

Bonne conférence!

http://www.arsc-audio.org/conference/

Conference that will be
held at the Wilshire Grand in Los Angeles from May 11 to 14, 2011. Come stop by
and say hello!

Our products are the result of many
years of research and experiments in the field  with the help of
archivists and preservation technicians. At the end, we have been able to put
together a state of the art preservation system for all media in analog and
digital preservation.

We are looking forward to
shaking hands and sharing about our products.
Enjoy the conference and hope to see you there!

STiL Casing Solution has been in business for over 14 years and we have always been on the cutting edge. Whether it is through product development, enhanced customer service, or total quality initiatives, we have always been innovative – a redoubtable ally! We want you to think as highly about our customer service as our technology. We are always striving to serve our customers better.

To pay tribute to this ongoing trend, we are happy to annonce that we now have a new version of the STiL 35mm/1000 & 2000 foot film container.

We listened to you, focused attentively on your issues and challenges concerning the container you wished to be perfect to suit your needs on preserving your films.

NEW KEY FEATURE:  In the lid, flanking the edge, are SMALLER stoppers (the old versions were larger & higher), these stoppers prevent the lid to crush or simply touch the film.

What’s NEW?

• Much easier to open and close
• More space inside the film can
• Safe for the film spires

We would like to thank you for letting us know about how the former version of these containers needed « refining »!