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International
Meeting on Microform Preservation and Conservation Practices Held in Chiang
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"The International Meeting on Microform Preservation and Conservation Practices in Southeast Asia" was held in Chiang Mai, Thailand on February 21-24, 2000. The objectives of the meeting were to examine preservation needs and practices in Southeast Asia and evaluate the effectiveness of international cooperative projects. Participants in the meeting consisted of scholars, preservation experts, archivists, librarians, and funding agencies. Among the
issues discussed in the meeting were technical operations, management, policy
questions, and future development. The meeting agreed to expand technical
collaboration within a country or a region as well as establish bibliographic
control. The
meeting elected a steering |
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committee of country representatives and implementing
committee with representatives from several professional sectors. It agreed
on an action agenda called the "Chiang Mai Declaration" which
resolves to establish the Southeast Asia Consortium for Access and
Preservation or SEACAP. Its objectives are to encourage, develop, facilitate,
and support collaboration among libraries, archives, and other concerned
institutions and individuals, provide access to materials relating to
Southeast Asia studies; and enhance preservation activities in the region. The SEACAP's short, medium, and long-term action agendas include establishing a SEACAP website and listserve discussion group, beginning emergency rescue of damaged microfilm in the region |
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by assessing the scope of the
need for remastering of acetate film and polyester, research on the
suitability of storage of microfilm in sealed vacuum pouches, digitizing as a
means of inputting the microform, gathering information on filming special
materials, plan and hold future similar conferences. 15 Asean AV … from page
1 ASEAN-Australia Cooperation.
This trainirig program on AV
archiving through internet uses the courses developed by the Screensound
Australia and the University of New South Wales namely; 1) Audio Visual Management,
2) Preservation and Conservation of Audio Materials, and 3) Advanced Audio
Visual and Multimedia Management. The program offers two (2) grants per year
per ASEAN member country for a period of three (3) years.
The next semester course which will
start in August 2000, the group/participants will be split evenly between the
two subjects (Preservation and Conservation of Audiovisual Materials and
Advanced Audiovisual and Multimedia Management). This has been the
recommendation of Mr. Ray Edmondson, President of SSA and SEAPAVAA in order
to have reasonable-sized groups for proper monitoring of the participants.
Screening and selection of
participants for the next course starts this June 2000. Each ASEAN member-country
could submit two (2) nominees coming from AV archives institutions to
participate in the next course. For interested parties, please contact your
national ASEAN-COCI (Committee on Culture and Information) or the SEAPAVAA
Secretariat.
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project will help ensure the long term survival of the
region's video and audio tape collections which have been widely used to
record oral history, tribal rituals, and other culturally significant visual
images, records of sights and sound that capture the distinctive flavor of
our varied cultural heritages. At the end of the seminar in Manila, Dietrich
Schueller expressed his appreciation of the keen interest shown by the
participants and hoped that they would pass on their experiences in order to
achieve a world-wide community of experts. The second
phase of the project will be conducted successively in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
at the National Archives of Malaysia from June 27 to 29, Singapore at the
National Archives of Singapore from July 10-12, and in Ho Chi |
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Minh City, Vietnam from July 17 to 21. Jim Lindner of
VidiPax, a magnetic media and information migration full services company in
New York, USA, and Ian Gilmour and Viktor Fumic from ScreenSound Australia are
the resource persons for this phase. SEAPAVAA
hopes that the second phase will be as equally successful as the first and
will help improve the region's collective capacity to manage magnetic media.
As SEAPAVAA President Ray Edmondson said in his message to the participants,
"it is our shared objective to improve the management, security and
longevity of the tape materials available to us. We may not be able to
achieve perfection, but we can maximize the possibilities offered by the
facilities and skills that we have." |
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Page 3 – AV Archives Bulletin |
January-June
2000
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