ARSC Conference Travel Grants
posted December 8, 2010
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections, an American nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings in all genres of music and speech, is accepting applications until December 10 2010 for ARSC Conference Travel Grants to be awarded in 2011. Recipients are awarded free registration for the ARSC Annual Conference and for
Archive Coordinator Wanted
posted December 8, 2010
StoryCorps, an independent nonprofit that records, shares, and preserves life stories of Americans that are preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, is hiring a full-time archive coordinator for its department of recording and archive in Brooklyn, NY. The appointee will work with StoryCorps’ community-outreach department to work with existing and
Preservation Training Workshops and Webinars
posted December 8, 2010
The Northeast Document Conservation Center has announced its latest Preservation Training Workshops and Webinars for January-June 2011. In response to staff shortages and dwindling travel budgets, the roster includes an expanded offering of webinars. The webinars are two hours long and begin at 2pm Eastern US time. In-person workshops are full-day programs and generally are
DigCCurr Professional Institute
posted November 22, 2010
Curation Practices for the Digital Object Lifecycle May 15-20, 2011 & January 4-6, 2012 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The Institute consists of one five-day session in May 2011 and a two-day follow-up session and a day-long symposium in January 2012. Each day of the summer session will include lectures, discussion and hands-on
Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage
posted November 4, 2010
The deadline is approaching for submissions of papers to the 3rd International Workshop on Personalized Access to Cultural Heritage, which will be held in conjunction with the IUI2011 Conference (2011 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces) in Palo Alto, Cal., February 13-16, 2011. The deadline is November 12, 2010, and accepted authors will be informed
Positions Vacant
posted November 4, 2010
Head of Preservation & Professor of Library Administration The University of Illinois Library www.library.illinois.edu is looking for someone to lead its preservation and conservation program for analog and digital materials and to continue expanding its general and special-collections holdings. The appointee will oversee preservation reformatting, the media preservation program, and analog preservation and conservation services,
Economies of the Commons 2
posted November 4, 2010
International conference, seminar, and public evening programs 12-13 November 2010 De Balie, Amsterdam (Pre-conference: November 11, Hilversum) The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision will host Economies of the Commons 2 , an international seminar on Open Video, a two-day international conference and two-evening public program at De Balie, a center for culture and politics
UNC-Chapel Hill Offers Fellowships in Digital Archiving
posted November 3, 2010
The School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is offering fellowships to American-citizen applicants interested in digital archiving and curation and in earning a doctoral degree. The two-year fellowships include a 20 hours of work each week as a research fellow in digital curation; an annual stipend
Jim Henson Media Library Seeks Intern
posted November 3, 2010
The Jim Henson Company media library, located in Hollywood, is looking for a media-library intern for next semester. The intern will work with the company’s video, audio, and photographic collections in an unpaid position, and the position is dependent on the applicant qualifying for college credit from a college or university in the US. The
Film Studies Spring School in Gorizia, Italy
posted September 7, 2010
The 9th MAGIS-Gorizia International Film Studies Spring School takes place in Gorizia, Italy, April 8–13, 2011, with a them of The Archive: Memory, Cinema, Video, and the Image of the Present. In workshops and plenary sessions, scholars, graduate students, artists, curators, and representatives of art institutions, will discuss such areas of archiving as cinema &