Archives for the Future
Edited by Anthony Seeger and Shubha Chaudhuri
ISBN 81 7046 223 1
Culture Studies/Anthropology/Music
Price : Rs 350 £ 19.95 $ 25.95
Archives for the Future
global perspectives on audiovisual archives in the 21st Century
This unique book is based on a workshop for an international group of administrators of research-based archives held near New Delhi in December 1999, the aim of which was to bring together archivists from industrializing countries which have a relatively recent history of audiovisual archives, principally from the Southern Hemisphere; to take concerns of audiovisual archives outside the national and regional boundaries that so often define them; and to focus on audiovisual archives that document musical and folklore traditions or ethnomusicology.
Pooling the experience of participants from Austria, Australia, China, Cuba, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Peru, The Philippines, South Africa, Sudan, and the United States, the volume will be of interest to cultural workers both as an introductory textbook in ethnomusicology courses and as a book for specialists.
The book begins with a theoretical introduction, including general observations on archives, a discussion of the principal points in the participant papers, a description of the workshop itself, and how the process of the workshop has been transformed into this volume. Section One deals with archive structure and operations, including a chapter on recording technology which begins with a paper by the world-renowned expert in technology for audiovisual archives, Dr Dietrich Schuller, Director of the Vienna Phonogramm-Archiv, Austria, the oldest such archive in the world; and one on issues of copyright and ethics by Grace Koch. Section Two consists of the participants' papers. The volume also includes useful material such as sample agreement forms, a bibliography of major resources on audiovisual archives, and a website list of the most important professional organizations and archive sites.
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From: "Cynthia Scott" <cynthia.scott@simmons.edu>
Reply-To: exlibris@library.berkeley.edu
Date: Thu, 6 May 2004 16:23:51 -0700 (PDT)
>Professional Development for Managers of Digital Collections
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>Museums, Libraries and Archives:
>Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing
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>Hosted by the Graduate School of Library and Information
>Science, Simmons College
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>Boston
>July 12-15, 2004
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>Early registration deadline extended to June 1, 2004
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>More and more professionals in museums, libraries, and archives
>are called upon to create, manage, disseminate, and preserve
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>preservation. These demands, as well as the increasing
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>The Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing provides an
>intensive four days of instruction and dialogue for those
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>After five years in Los Angeles, this year?s Summer Institute
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>Instructors and speakers will include:
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>Murtha Baca, Head of Standards and Vocabulary Programs and the
>Digital Resource Management Department, Getty Research Institute
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>Mich謥 Cloonan, Dean, Graduate School of Library and
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>Erin Coburn, Data Standards Administrator, J. Paul Getty Museum
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>Robin Dale, Program Officer for Member Initiatives, Research
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>Diane Felicio, Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations,
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>Tim Hart, Web Analyst, J. Paul Getty Trust
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>Amy Lucker, Head of Slides and Digital Imaging, Fine Arts
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>Martha Mahard, Curator, Historic Photographs and Special Visual
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>Sam Quigley, Director of Digital Information and Technology,
>Harvard University Art Museums
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>Mary Woodley, Social Sciences Librarian, California State
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