[PADG:277] WPI Preservation Management of Machine-Based Audiovisual Media

[Gary Menges <menges@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

WASHINGTON PRESERVATION INITIATIVE

PRESERVATION MANAGEMENT OF MACHINE-BASED AUDIOVISUAL MEDIA

Friday, February 4, 2005, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
        Seattle, University of Washington Libraries, Odegaard
 	Undergraduate Library 220

Tuesday, February 8, 2005, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM
         Spokane, Gonzaga University, Foley Center Library
         Teleconference Center

Presenter: Alan Lewis, Former Audiovisual Preservation Expert, Special
 	Media Archives Services Division, National Archives and Records
 	Administration.

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DESCRIPTION: This is a basic training course designed for persons who find
themselves involved with some or all of the "legacy" machine-based AV
media: mechanical and magnetic sound recordings, motion picture films,
film sound tracks and videotapes.  The focus is on the fundamental nature
of these various media and the application of archival principles and
procedures to them.  The curriculum deals with concepts, terminology,
technologies, basic conservation and preservation methods, storage
considerations, description, equipment needs, contracting for laboratory
services, and more.  The session also gives attendees an opportunity to
network with other persons working in the field and to learn about other
nearby institutions that are facing similar challenges.

The instructor encourages attendees to bring in examples, pictures or 35mm
slides of exotic or problem recording media or unusual equipment that they
are challenged with.  He calls this a "stump the expert" session.

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INSTRUCTOR: Alan Lewis has been involved in audiovisual media since the
1950s. His introduction to the field was as a junior high school "AV kid."
In 1963, after a brief post-college career as a stagehand in New York
theaters and network TV studios and service in the U.S. Army, he joined
WEDU-TV, Tampa, as a producer-director.  He rose quickly to become
Coordinator of Program Planning and Operations and then the station's
Director of Programming.

In 1973, he joined the Washington headquarters staff of the Public
Broadcasting Service as Supervisor of Acquisitions for its Public
Television Library.  By the late 1970s he was its director - including an
added component - the Public Television Program Archives.

In 1983 he moved to CBS News in New York for what became a four-year
appointment as Director of its Film and Videotape Archives.  This was
followed by several years as an independent AV archives consultant with
clients as diverse and widespread as the Oregon Historical Society in
Portland and the Museum of Modern Art's Film Archive in New York.

In 1991 he returned to Washington, DC, as the National Archives'
Supervisory Audiovisual Specialist and later was named Subject Area
Expert: Audiovisual Preservation.  He will retire from that position on
January 31st and conduct these two WPI workshops within days afterwards.

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REGISTRATION:

Registration will be covered by LSTA funds from the Office of the
Secretary of State/Washington State Library Division's Washington
Preservation Initiative. Lunch will be on your own.

The registration and session information is at

<http://www.secstate.wa.gov/library/libraries/training/trainingView.aspx?event=234&audience=lib>

If you have trouble going to the direct link go to:

http://www.secstate.wa.gov/library/libraries/training/#WSL
and click under the workshop title listed under "WSL Training."

The Washington Preservation Initiative is sponsored by the Washington State
Library and is supported by IMLS through LSTA funding.