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MARCH 2002 MEETING NOTICE

Saving Memory: Shifting Assumptions in the Archival Audio-visual Profession

Linda Tadic

The archival audiovisual profession has grown beyond saving nitrate film to
encompass saving every format that moves, including those that are "fixed"
as bytes.  Audio-visual formats held in archive collections present a
multitude of issues including identification, documentation, preservation
and conservation, and cinematographic technology.  In many institutions,
archivists assigned to manage audio-visual formats are grappling with these
issues, without the benefit of a consensus regarding treatment and
management issues.  This presentation will reflect on why audio-visual
archivists need to shift assumptions held on the very nature of their
profession. A curatorial approach to preservation is encouraged, as well as
the necessity to expand traditional archival roles and functions in
consideration of marketplace and technological realities.

Linda Tadic, is currently Manager of the Digital Library at Home Box Office
in New York. Previously, she was Digital Projects Coordinator at the Getty
Research Institute in Los Angeles. She has over 15 years experience with
archival audiovisual collections, and was Director of the Media Archives
and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia. She has also
worked at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, Pacific Film Archive, and,
as a consultant for the National Moving Image Database at the American Film
Institute, cataloged collections at the Museum of Modern Art, Anthology
Film Archives, Electronic Arts Intermix, and the Hearst Museum of
Anthropology at UC Berkeley. She was president of the Association of Moving
Image Archivists from 1998-1999.
Ms. Tadic is also an independent film maker, and has had screenings at the
Museum of Modern Art, Filmforum in Los Angeles, the San Francisco
Cinematheque, and other venues.  She holds a BFA in music and art from
California Institute of the Arts, an MFA in Visual Arts (emphasis in film)
from UC San Diego, and an MLIS from UC
Berkeley.

DATE:   Wednesday March 20th, 2002

TIME:   5:30 pm - 6:15 pm - social , 6:15 pm - 7:30 pm - program

PLACE:          The National Archives Regional Office, 201 Varick Street,
12th floor

DIRECTIONS:        By subway: Take the 1/2 train to Houston St., or the C/E
to Spring St. and walk north on Sixth Avenue, then West on Houston to
Varick Street.  Please use the entrance on Houston Street.  There are two
entrances next to one another.  The first entrance (as one approaches from
Varick) is the entrance to the Department of Veterans Affairs.  The
entrance to NARA is next door.

FEE:            ART Members $3.  Non-members $5.
RSVP:       By Monday March 18th to Mindy Gordon,
gordonm@mail.rockefeller.edu or telephone (914) 366-6350.  Please remember
hosting a meeting represents a financial and meeting space commitment on
the part of our hosts.  Please be reasonably sure you can attend the
meeting before responding.

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