The Southeast Asia-PacificJanuary-June 2001
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SEAPAVAA and IASA support
joint resolution in Singapore

 
      Ray Edmondson, president of SEAPAVAA (South East Asia Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association) and Crispin Jewitt, president of IASA (International Association of Sound Audiovisual Archives) together presented three resolutions to the Joint IASA-SEAPAVAA Conference held 3-7 July 2000 in Singapore.dotw.gif - 1kb(Continued on p. 11)
  		  Thailand to host
6th SEAPAVAA conference
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Experts at work during the guidelines workshop of the “Memory of the World” held in Bangkok from 9-19 February 2001.
 

SEAPAVAA hosts international
“Memory of the World”
workshop in Bangkok

 
      Memory of the World is a global UNESCO program aimed at protecting and raising the status of the world’s documentary heritage -- embracing the contents of the world’s libraries and archives, including audiovisual archives. Much younger, and as yet lesser known than its cousin, the World Heritage Convention, also maintains   a prestigious international register which lists some of the key documents of world history -- and identifies their custodians.
       The general guidelines which underpin the Memory of the World are being revised. SEAPAVAA was appointed by UNESCO to host a special workshop of experts as part of the revision process.
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         The 6th SEAPAVAA conference in Bangkok on 16-20 July 2001 is hosted by the Public Relations Department (PRD) of Thailand with assistance from the National Film Archives and other government radio and television broadcasting companies. The conference, which is the first international gathering of audiovisual archivists in Thailand, adopts the theme
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Internet course moves to Charles Sturt University

      Australia’s National Screen and Sound Archive (Screensound) has established a new partnership with Charles Sturt University to continue the offering of the graduate certificate course in audiovisual archiving. This has been operating for the past three years at the University of New South Wales.
       The Archive’s deputy director, Ray Edmondson, spoke enthusiastically about the new arrangement. “It is a very natural tie-up”, he said.
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