Audiovisual and Multimedia Section
Scope
The Audiovisual and Multimedia Section (AVMS) is the international
forum for persons working with non book media in every kind of library
and information service. In this regard AVMS:
- concerns itself extensively with all issues relating to sound,
still and moving images and multimedia documents, including
collection development, cataloguing, access and conservation, as
well as services based upon them, such as children's libraries,
language centres, and multimedia digital libraries delivered via
the Internet.
- promotes the development of specialist expertise regarding:
sources and methods of acquisition; technical issues for carriers
and equipment, whether current or historic; legal issues affecting
the collection, transfer and delivery of documents; and
media-specific rules and formats for cataloguing.
- maintains relationships with relevant IFLA Sections and Core
Activities, and other professional organizations for audiovisual
archives.
Special expertises are required about sources and methods of
acquisitions, technical issues for historical and for new carriers and
equipments, legal issues affecting collecting, transferring and
delivering documents, specifics rules and formats of cataloguing, and
all kinds of libraries are concerned.
Relations have to be established in IFLA with corresponding groups
and with PAC and UAP Core Activities, and out of IFLA with professional
organizations of sound and audiovisual archives.
Strategic Plan
Publications
Guidelines for
audiovisual and multimedia materials in libraries
Translations
Afrikaans:
Riglyne vir Oudiovisuele en
Multimedia Materiaal in biblioteke en ander instellings
Arabic:

Bahasa Melayu:
Garispanduan untuk bahan-bahan
audiovisual dan multimedia di dalam perpustakaan dan institusi
lain
Catalan:
Directrius per a
materials audiovisuals i multimèdia en biblioteques i altres
institucions
Chinese:

Croatian:
Smejernice za audiovizualnu i
multimedijsku gradu u knjižnicama i drugim ustanovama
Farsi:

Italian:
Linee guida IFLA per i
materiali audiovisivi e multimediali nelle biblioteche e in altre
istituzioni a cura della Sezione 'Audiovisual and Multimedia'
dell'IFLA
French:
Recommandations relatives aux
Documents Audiovisuels et Multimédias a l'usage des bibliothèques et
autres institutions
German:
Richtlinien für Audiovisuelle
und Multimedia-Materialien in Bibliotheken und anderen
Institutionen
Korean:

Latvian:
Audiovizuālie un
multivides materiāli bibliotēkās un citās
institūcijās: vadlīnijas
Norwegian:
Retningslinjer for
audiovisuelt og multimediemateriale i bibliotek og andre
institusjoner
Portuguese:
Directrizes para
materiais audiovisuais e multimedia em bibliotecas e outras
instituições
Romanian:
Reguli pentru materialele
audiovizuale şi multimedia din biblioteci şi alte
instituţii
Russian:
Руководство
по
аудиовизуальным
и
мультимедийным
документам
для
библиотек и
других
организаций
Serbian:
Smernice za audiovizualnu i
multimedijalnu gradu u bibliotekama i drugim institucijama
Spanish:
Directrices para materiales
audiovisuales y multimedia en bibliotecas y otras
instituciones
Conservation des documents audiovisuels et
multimédias: Questions
éthiques
Section Newsletter
Section Brochure
Annual Reports
2007-2008 |
2006-2007 |
2004-2005 |
2003-2004 |
2002-2003 |
2001-2002 |
1999-2000 |
Conferences
Minutes of Meetings
- Midterm in Mo i Rana,
Norway, October 2008
- Quebec City, Canada, August
2008
- Durban, South Africa, August
2007
- Seoul, Korea, August
2006
- Oslo, Norway, August
2005
- Buenos Aires, Argentina,
August 2004
- Berlin, Germany, August 2003
- Glasgow, Scotland, August 2002
- Boston, USA, August 2001
- Jerusalem, Israel, August 2000
Related Organizations
The
Association for Recorded Sound Collections is a non-profit organization
dedicated to research, study, publication, and information exchange
surrounding all aspects of recordings and recorded sound. ARSC works to
encourage the preservation of historical recordings, and to foster an
increased awareness of the importance of recorded sound as part of any
cultural heritage. www.arsc-audio.org
The
Association of Moving Image Archivists is a non-profit professional
association established to advance the field of moving image archiving
by fostering cooperation among individuals and organizations concerned
with the acquisition, preservation, exhibition and use of moving image
materials. www.amianet.org
The Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives
Associations represents the interests of worldwide professional archive
organisations with interests in audiovisual materials including films,
broadcast television and radio, and audio recordings of all kinds. www.ccaaa.org
The
International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives functions
as a medium for international co-operation between archives that
preserve recorded sound and audiovisual documents. IASA supports the
exchange of information and fosters international co-operation between
audiovisual archives in all fields. www.iasa-web.org
The International Council on Archives (ICA) is dedicated to
the advancement of archives worldwide. Archives, by providing evidence
of human activities and transactions, underlie the rights of
individuals and states, and are fundamental to democracy and good
governance. Archives safeguard the memory of mankind by preserving
records of its past. www.ica.org
The
International Federation of Film Archives is a collaborative
association of the world's leading film archives whose purpose has
always been to ensure the proper preservation and showing of motion
pictures. www.fiafnet.org
The
International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions is
the leading international body representing the interests of library
and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the
library and information profession.
www.ifla.org
The
International Federation of Television Archives provides a means for
co-operation amongst broadcast and national audiovisual archives and
libraries concerned with the collection, preservation and exploitation
of moving image and recorded sound materials and associated
documentation. www.fiatifta.org
The aim of MEDEA is to encourage innovation and good
practice in the use of digital moving images and sound in education.
The award will also recognise and promote excellence in the production
and pedagogical design of media-rich learning resources. www.medea-awards.com
The Multimedia and Information Technology Group aims to
unite members of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information
Professionals engaged in or interested in multimedia information and
technology developments in library and information science, and to
enable communication between them, to facilitate the exchange of ideas
and experience and the promotion of their professional interests. mmit.willco.com
The
Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association provides a
regional forum for addressing common issues and concerns related to the
collection and preservation of, and provision of access to, the
audiovisual heritage of member countries. www.seapavaa.org
The UNESCO Audio Visual Archives Programme seeks to
preserve the audiovisual heritage comprising film, television and sound
recordings. portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1988
&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Mailing List
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discussion list
Submissions: scavm-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Web interface: http://infoserv.inist.fr/wwsympa.fcgi/info/scavm-l
Useful Addresses
Chair:
Trond Valberg
Scientific Officer
National Library of Norway
P.O. Box 2674 Solli
0203 OSLO
Norway
Tel. +(47)(23)276000
Fax +(47)(23)276010
E-mail: trond.valberg@nb.no
Secretary/Treasurer:
Bruce Royan
Chief Executive Officer
Concurrent Computing Ltd
41 Greenhill Gardens
EDINBURGH, Scotland, EH10 4BL
United Kingdom
Tel. +(44)(131) 4473151
E-mail: bruce.royan@concurrentcomputing.com
Information Coordinator/Editor of
Newsletter:
Marwa El Sahn
Head of Arts & Multimedia Library
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
El Shatby
21526 ALEXANDRIA
Egypt
Tel. +(20)(3)48439999
Fax +(20)(3)4820460
E-mail: marwa.elsahn@bibalex.org