Moving Image Specialists in Libraries http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/ A Research Initiative of NYU's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program en Copyright 2012 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:23:35 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Interview with Rose Falanga, Manager of the Learning Commons, Exploratorium: Museum of science, art and human perception I think the main challenge continues to be that—and every librarian has this, every archivist has this—people don’t understand what we do. And we are so busy doing it that we don’t spend enough time in marketing what we do. Then people don’t value it.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/03/interview_with_rose_falanga_ma.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/03/interview_with_rose_falanga_ma.html interviews Sat, 10 Mar 2012 23:23:35 -0500 Interview with Barclay Ogden, Director for Library Preservation, UC Berkeley Libraries I think the primary issue is not changing anything relative to the specialists, but creating awareness of the importance of the material itself. We have preservation programs that can easily be expanded to accommodate AV. We have specialists—not enough, should demand grow—but enough to get started with populating the positions. But the lack awareness of the importance of audiovisual materials is the primary hurdle we have to get over.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/03/interview_with_barclay_ogden_d.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/03/interview_with_barclay_ogden_d.html interviews Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:19:20 -0500 Interview with Kathleen Cameron, Manager and Digital Content Development, University of California San Francisco Library That we have unique collections is what makes our libraries and our special collections and our archives really "special." It brings additional value to the institutional memory. And I think people take that for granted, and more and more in the electronic age. Everyone just thinks everything is automatically saved, or it will be good forever. That they have it on a tape and it’s sitting on a shelf, and they don’t think that in five years we may not have a machine to play it on.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/02/interview_with_kathleen_camero.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/02/interview_with_kathleen_camero.html interviews Wed, 29 Feb 2012 16:15:19 -0500 Interview with Siobhan Hagan, Audiovisual Preservation Specialist, UCLA Libraries What’s great is that libraries are taking in these collections [in the first place]. I’ve seen a lot of libraries saying, “We don’t know what to do with it, but we don’t want it to get thrown away.”... We won’t be able to preserve everything, but at least we’re providing a safe haven for these collections....

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/02/interview_with_siobhan_hagan_a.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/02/interview_with_siobhan_hagan_a.html interviews Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:06:13 -0500 Marie Lascu, Internship at Laguardia Community College, Fall 2011 My primary duty was recording descriptive metadata for the Middle College High School audiovisual collection, as well as miscellaneous newly created DVDs. I used a simple template that proceeding interns could easily continue with, which will greatly aid the archive and catalogers.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/02/marie_lascu_internship_at_lagu.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/02/marie_lascu_internship_at_lagu.html reports Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:10:12 -0500 Seth Anderson, Internship at American Museum of Natural History, Fall 2011 As an audiovisual intern at the American Museum of Natural History, I spent the semester planning and implementing a digitization project for the museum’s Research Library. In the 1980s, the library made U-matic video copies of its large moving image collection. With the cooperation of the museum’s Science Bulletins department, these tapes will be transferred to digital formats early next year.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/02/seth_anderson_internship_at_am.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/02/seth_anderson_internship_at_am.html reports Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:07:52 -0500 Crystal Sanchez, Internship at NYU Bobst Library, Fall 2011 My internship at the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department Media Preservation Unit at NYU Bobst Library during the Fall of 2011 provided me with hands-on supervised experience in film inspection and preparation. The Media Preservation Unit handles all preservation and conservation needs for the unique film, video, and audio materials in the Library’s Special Collections. This semester, most of my time was spent processing film materials from the Larry Rivers collection at Fales Library and Special Collections.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/02/crystal_sanchez_internship_at_2.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/02/crystal_sanchez_internship_at_2.html reports Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:04:33 -0500 Benedict Salazar Olgado, Internship at The Explorers Club, Fall 2011 Through the generous support of IMLS, The Explorers Club had me as its archive assistant for its film and media collection during the Fall of 2011. It was an enriching internship. For the most part of the program, I had the opportunity to work on the initial key steps towards getting better control of a truly rich collection while also laying the grounds towards establishing a fully functional film and media archive for the Club.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/02/benedict_salazar_olgado_intern.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/02/benedict_salazar_olgado_intern.html reports Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:56:21 -0500 Jieun An, Internship at New York Public Library, Fall 2011 During fall semester 2011, I worked at Special Formats Processing Audio-Visual group of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (LPA) in Lincoln Center which has wide-ranging collections including music, dance, theater, and recorded sound. The Internship was conducted under the supervision and support of Thomas Christie who is Supervising Librarian of AV media group at Collection Strategy/Special Formats, and Tanisha Jones, Director of Moving Image Archive for Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Especially, I worked for the Schomburg Center which has extensive collection about African culture and history.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/02/jieun_an_internship_at_new_yor.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2012/02/jieun_an_internship_at_new_yor.html reports Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:39:53 -0500 Crystal Sanchez, Internship at University of Buffalo Library, Summer 2011 This summer I was fortunate to work in Buffalo, NY with at-risk video housed at the Poetry Collection, a Special Collection at the University of Buffalo. The Poetry Collection houses the world's largest collection of Anglophone poetry first editions and other titles, including valuable audiovisual material from many regional organizations including the Just Buffalo Literary Center and the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2011/09/crystal_sanchez_internship_at_1.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2011/09/crystal_sanchez_internship_at_1.html reports Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:20:43 -0500 Seth Anderson, Internship at Harvard University Library, Summer 2011 This summer, I interned with two institutions at Harvard University: the Schlesinger Library of the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study and the Harvard Film Archive. At the

Schlesinger Library, I prepared data related to the Radcliffe College Archives audio collection for inclusion in a finding aid. This project required me to collect contextual metadata on this large collection and organize it for efficient use by students and researchers. In collaboration with the Harvard Film Archive, I worked on a project preparing a portion of the Harvard Business School’s 16mm film collection for preservation storage. The collection, consisting of industrial, educational and home movie films, was re-housed and technical metadata was recorded for later preservation work and cataloging.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2011/09/seth_anderson_internship_at_ha.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2011/09/seth_anderson_internship_at_ha.html reports Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:17:57 -0500 Jieun An, Internship at Texas State University Libraries, Summer 2011 The ultimate goal of this project is to create database for the digitized files from the original tape formats to make them accessible and to store the copies of the files at the Wittliff Collections at TSU. During the summer internship, the main task assigned to me was managing the media and other materials in the archive closet at the AFF office by creating database for the collection, relabeling the entire media formats, setting digital system for transferring process. In the internship period at TSU library, I had opportunities to learn how to deal with FileMakerPro and CONTENTdm for their digital collections, and also to practice transferring audio and VHS tapes to digital formats.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2011/09/jieun_an_internship_at_texas_s.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2011/09/jieun_an_internship_at_texas_s.html reports Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:15:34 -0500 Marie Lascu, Internship at Arizona State Library, Summer 2011 I processed the audiovisual portion of the Ernest W. McFarland collection under the supervision of Linda Reib, Electronic Records Archivist at the Arizona State Archives History and Archives Division. I began with an item level inventory in excel of all of the media materials, which included 16mm film, 35mm film, electrical transcription discs, vinyl LPs, ¼” open reel audio tape, 2” video tape, VHS, and ¾” Umatics. After appropriate metadata was captured and information was compared to a previous inventory, I was able to re-house most of the materials.

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2011/09/marie_lascu_internship_at_ariz.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2011/09/marie_lascu_internship_at_ariz.html reports Sun, 18 Sep 2011 20:09:14 -0500 Interview With Monique Threatt, Head of Media & Reserve Services, Herman B Wells Library, Indiana University As a media librarian, you [need] skills in university technology [...] The media librarian really has to get in on the conversation and say, we’re doing this, we want to do this, how can you help? Or, how can we help you?

]]> http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2011/09/monique_threatt_head_of_media.html http://blogs.nyu.edu/tisch/preservation/research/libraries/2011/09/monique_threatt_head_of_media.html featured interviews Mon, 12 Sep 2011 22:23:32 -0500 Interview with Claire Stewart, Head of Digital Collections, Northwestern University Library It takes special skills to handle media collections and people like me who go to a traditional library program don’t have those skills necessarily. So it’s been great having [someone] here to see what you can do with that kind of training and background. It’s been eye opening because I can see the cautious, careful, methodical approach, but I also see that there are some things we don’t have to be as frightened of.

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