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"Symposium on Moving Image Archival Education & Training"
Title: "Symposium on Moving Image Archival Education
& Traini
All interested archivists, students, and
educators are invited to attend a symposium on "The Future of
Moving Image Archival Education and Training: Building New Models and
Partnerships."
The symposium, the first gathering of its
kind in North America, will be held on November 14 during the annual
conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists at the
Sheraton Universal Hotel in Los Angeles. The schedule of sessions and
speakers as it has been developed to date is provided below. Complete
conference program and registration information can be found at
http://www.amianet.org/04_Annual/04b_LA2k/04b01_index.html.
Symposium:
"THE FUTURE OF MOVING IMAGE
ARCHIVAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING:
BUILDING NEW MODELS AND
PARTNERSHIPS"
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday, November 14, 2000
Terrace ABC Room
Sheraton Universal Hotel
Organized by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the AMIA
Education Committee.
Introduction:
This day-long symposium will assess
progress in the field to date, while also discussing the future of
moving image archival education with the goal of fostering new
educational strategies, collaborations and exchanges on an
international scale. Much work remains to be done in these areas,
work that will be essential in establishing moving image archiving as
a profession with its own unique knowledge base, professional
standards, and academic credentials.
For decades, archivists have learned their
trade primarily through on-site vocational training, an
apprenticeship model of "learning by doing" while "on
the job." More recently, this model has proven itself
inadequate, and has been joined by a diverse range of educational
opportunities that are being offered internationally on an ongoing
basis. These include summer schools, workshops and short courses,
archive-centered schools, training networks, distance learning
initiatives, online tutorials and resource guides, scholarship
programs, as well as academic-centered models involving permanent,
postgraduate, university-based education within curricula and degree
offerings that combine hands-on training with broader,
interdisciplinary requirements.
Symposium Participants:
Many of these new programs have been created through model
collaborations involving archives, universities, film studies
departments, library and information science schools, professional
associations, producers, preservation laboratories and service
providers, and funding agencies. The Education Symposium will bring
together representatives from these sectors -- public and private,
academic and archival -- to discuss the needs of the field, propose
solutions, and further develop these partnerships.
Participants in the symposium will be
grouped into a series of topical sessions or focus groups structured
within the day-long event, with informal presentations and roundtable
discussions on a range of educational issues featured in each
session. Speakers are being invited to address questions and propose
visionary solutions for developing the profession and building new
relationships in each of the core discussion areas. Responses from
other symposium speakers as well as AMIA conference attendees will
form a crucial part of the symposium dialogue.
Morning Sessions:
1. "International Initiatives"
What are the developing models for international cooperation and
student exchange, whether involving sponsorship by national-level
institutions, regional groups, or international federations?
Moderator: Steven Ricci, UCLA Film and Television Archive
Speakers: ARCHIMEDIA European Training Network (pending
confirmation)
Paolo
Cherichi Usai, FIAF Summer School
Juana
Perujo, Filmoteca de la UNAM
Ray
Edmondson, South East Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive
Association (SEAPAVAA)
2. "Training for Regional and Community-Based
Archives"
What are the training needs of smaller, community-based archives with
local or special collection mandates, as distinct from larger
corporate or national-level archives with specialized staff and
divisions of labor?
Moderator: Maryann Gomes, Northwest Film Archive, and
AMIA Regional Audiovisual Archives
Interest Group Chair
Speakers: Chon Noriega, UCLA
Department of Film and Television
(other
speakers pending confirmation)
3. "Continuing Education"
In addition to new students, how can professional organizations and
universities best meet the ongoing career development needs of
working professionals in the archival or related fields? What are the
different priority skills sets most relevant to employers in
different sectors of the archival community?
Moderator: James Turner, University of Montreal, and
AMIA Education Committee
Co-chair
Speakers: Alan Lewis, National
Archives and Records Administration, and
AMIA Basic Training Workshops
Instructor
Paolo
Cherchi Usai, George Eastman House L. Jeffrey Selznick
School of Film
Preservation
Howard
Sisko, UCLA
Gregory
Lukow, UCLA Film and Television Archive
4. "Curricular Materials"
What are the basic reference works needed to support the teaching of
archival work? What is the field's core literature? How can archival
materials themselves be incorporated into innovative new pedagogical
tools -- test reels, instructional videos, digital tutorials -- to
enhance visual literacy and diagnostic skills?
Moderator: (to be confirmed)
Speakers: Sally Hubbard, UCLA Film and Television
Archive
Michael
Friend, FIAF Technical Commission
Nicola
Mazzanti, L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna
5. "Distance Learning"
What are the unique strengths and challenges of distance learning
training models? What roles have Internet-based curriculum or online
tutorials been able to play in providing education without borders?
Are there skills and areas of knowledge that are easier or more
difficult to teach through these approaches?
Moderator: (to be confirmed)
Speakers: Paul Wilson, University of Texas at Austin
Ray
Edmondson, National Screen and Sound Archive, Australia
Nicola
Mazzanti, L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna
David
Lee, Wessex Film and Sound Archive, and
Society of Archivists (UK) Film
& Sound Group
Afternoon Sessions:
6. "University Degrees"
How can students with moving image archival interests be accommodated
in traditional programs and departments (e.g., library sciences,
media studies, etc.)? How can dedicated new degree programs be
established through cross-disciplinary innovation? What will be the
impact on the profession of new university-based degree
credentials?
Moderators: Steven Ricci and Gregory Lukow,
UCLA Film and Television
Archive
Speakers: David Cleveland, East
Anglian Film Archive, University
of East Anglia
Michele
Cloonan, UCLA Department of Information Studies
Paolo
Cherchi Usai George Eastman House Selznick School
Antonia
Lant, New York University Department of Cinema Studies
7. "Relations with the Academic and Research
Communities"
How can the essential reciprocity between archivists and the academic
community be maintained in the areas of collections development,
information management, historical research, scholarly use, and
traditional and multimedia publication? What contributions can both
make not only to the establishment of study lists and canons but also
the larger cultural heritage?
Moderator: (to be confirmed)
Speakers: Jan-Christopher Horak, Hollywood Entertainment
Museum, and
AMIA Journal Editor
Lynda
Lee Kaid, University of Oklahoma Political
Communications Center and Archive
Chon
Noriega, UCLA Department of Film and Television.
Dan
Streible, University of South Carolina, and
AMIA Academic-Archival Interest
Group Chair
8. "Partnerships"
How can innovative new forms of collaboration and support from
private sector producers, service providers, government agencies, and
major foundations be enlisted to further advance the needs of the
field in such areas as program development, internships,
scholarships, and job placement programs?
Moderator: Eddie Richmond, AMIA Education Committee, and
UCLA Film and Television
Archive
Speakers: David Gracy, University of
Texas at Austin Graduate School of
Library and Information Science, and
President, Academy of
Certified Archivists
Rick
Utley, PRO-TEK Media Preservation Vault, a Cinesite
Company
Keri
Botello, UCLA Department of Information Studies
Internship Program
(other
speakers pending confirmation)
9. "Closing Plenary"
Moderators: Steven Ricci and Gregory Lukow,
UCLA Film and Television Archive
Speakers: Paolo Cherchi Usai, George Eastman House Selznick
School
David
Gracy, University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of
Library and Information Science, and
President, Academy of
Certified Archivists
James
Turner, University of Montreal, and
AMIA Education Committee
Co-chair
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