Today, October 27, is World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, established by UNESCO in 2007 to highlight the importance of film, video, television, radio and all other forms of audiovisual media to global culture, history, and communication; and to call attention to the vulnerability of this media, due to neglect, deterioration, a lack of human [...]
Entries from October 2008
October 17, 2008
New WITNESS Archive Intern
My name is Ioannis Papaloizou and I am from Cyprus. My educational background is in film and video production (I obtained my Bachelor’s degree at the School of Visual Arts in New York) and more recently in “Preservation and Presentation of the Moving Image” (prof. Master’s degree of the University of Amsterdam). At the university [...]
October 8, 2008
October is American Archives Month…
10 things to read/do/think about:
1. Read Archives and Justice: A South African Perspective by Verne Harris.
2. Check out this upcoming NY Archivists Roundtable workshop: Digital Asset Management and Institutional Repositories: Case Studies Addressing the Development and Implementation of Systems. November 10, 2008. One of the presenters is David Rice, Channel 13’s Digital Archivist. Dave is [...]
October 2, 2008
Job announcements for human rights archives/archivists
Three current job openings relating to human rights collections:
University of Texas Austin: Human Rights Archivist;
Columbia University: Director of Area Studies/Global Resources; the position includes serving as the Director of the Center for Human Rights Documentation and Research.
Amnesty International (at the Secretariat, UK): Cataloger, Peter Benenson Collection.
