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
Taking Stock of Cinema Treasures
posted November 4, 2010
All but about 17 movie fans in all of creation have had a favorite cinema – the one where they learned their love of the moving image, or the taste of their first love’s lips; the one that smelled of the sea and only half-blocked the rush of passing traffic; the one where they heard dropped Milk Duds roll from the back to the front of the house; the one where they sat, gobsmacked, at the rippling pecs of George Lazenby, or at the undress of Ursula Andress – in her breakout Dr. No (1962), or perhaps later, in Mountain of the Cannibal God (1978).
Update: American Indian Film Gallery
posted November 4, 2010
The American Indian Film Gallery, a project of MacDonald & Associates (featured earlier in Moving Image Archive News), has to date placed online some 290 vintage films about Native American life from the Arctic to Cape Horn. The films can be viewed and downloaded free of charge. They present aspects of the life of 102
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