ARSC - IASA CONFERENCE 2001

["Gilliam, Clare" <Clare.Gilliam@xxxxx>]

ARSC - IASA  CONFERENCE 2001: WHY COLLECT?
Association for Recorded Sound Collections
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

This major conference takes place 23-27 September 2001 in the BRITISH
LIBRARY CONFERENCE CENTRE, LONDON, UK

Visit the conference website at
http://www.bl.uk/collections/sound-archive/iasa.html

The conference theme WHY COLLECT? has attracted papers and presentations
from audio-visual archivists, curators, collectors, and enthusiasts from all
over the world. Some from Eastern Europe, Australasia  and Africa will
describe and illustrate how their collections help to preserve or
re-establish national and cultural identity; others will discuss
transferring large and important collections into institutional care, both
as givers and receivers; others want to show everyone why "it's my
collection and I'm proud of it". A wide range of expertise and advice will
be on offer.

All forms of AV collecting are represented, from cylinders to CDs, oral
history to orchestral music, film and TV soundtracks, language and dialect,
traditional music, country music and jazz, record companies in Nazi Germany,
record collecting in Soviet Russia. There will be presentations by both the
world's oldest broadcasting archives, and a chance to visit the oldest and
largest record company archive in the world at EMI.

This will be the first time the Association for Recorded Sound collections
has held its annual conference outside North America, and the first
ARSC-IASA joint conference with a fully integrated programme. Many of the
world's leading audio-visual archive practitioners, discographers and
researchers will be present, including several heads of institutions. There
will be various additional evening attractions for delegates and a gourmet
farewell dinner in a memorable venue. Registration fees and other costs have
been kept low to enable all to attend. ARSC and IASA members receive a
discount.

For full details visit the website above or contact the ARSC-IASA conference
organisers at the
British Library National Sound Archive
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DB
UK
Telephone +44 (0)20 7412 7440. email nsa@xxxxx

You can register for the conference via the website, using your credit or
debit card.



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