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The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives (IASA), the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), and the Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association (SEAPAVAA) award the James A. Lindner Prize to individuals or organizations for research that has a major impact on the technology of preservation of moving images and recorded sound.

Applicants and nominees may be individuals, groups of individuals, organizations, or corporations. The winner receives a certificate and citation from the associations and a cash award made from a grant by James A. Lindner. An application form is online, the deadline is July 1 2011, recipients will be notified mid-August, and the prize will be awarded at the IASA Annual Conference (September 3-8 2011) in Frankfurt, Germany.

The first recipient of the prize, in 2008, was the team of J.W. McBride that developed the Sound Archive Project, based in the Electro-Mechanical Research Group in the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton, UK.

The annual Rockefeller Archive Center’s AMIA/Rockefeller Visiting Archivist Fellowship, established with the Association of Moving Image Archivists, provides financial assistance, first-hand experience, and professional exchange and development to a professional archivist from the developing world. The fellowship is at the Rockefeller Archive Center in New York and includes attendance at the AMIA Annual Conference, this year in Austin, Texas. The award includes stipends for travel, housing, food, and other costs.

Apply online by the deadline, June 30 2011.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program has awarded funds to The New York Public Library and Yale University Library for a series of eight nine-month preservation administration fellowships over the next three years. The Yale University Library’s Preservation Department will host three of these fellowships, one per year. The purpose of the IMLS Preservation Administration Fellowship is to develop twenty-first century preservation administrators by giving qualified candidates the opportunity to apply administrative skills in preservation in the context of a large research library with a comprehensive preservation program. These skills will be directed toward specific preservation administration projects, preventive / treatment / reformatting / outreach projects, and broader administrative activities. Applicants should have a master’s degree from an ALA-accredited program for library and information science and advanced certificate in preservation administration and/or equivalent demonstrated knowledge of preservation administration theory and practice, including current preservation, conservation, and reformatting practices and techniques for library and archival materials through prior relevant experience. Other requirements and information: http://www.nypl.org/collections/preservation-division/imls Application deadline: July 12, 2010. Expected start: November, 2010.