Please forgive cross postings. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- MARAC Workshop: Visual and Sound Materials: Acquisition, Preservation and Access The following workshop is being offered as part of the Spring 2006 meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC), which will be held in Baltimore, Maryland, April 20-22, 2006. Registration information for this workshop, and for the meeting as a whole, including the hotel deadline, can be found at http://www.lib.umd.edu/MARAC/conferences/2006/spring06/spring2006.html. If you have any questions please feel free to contact the Local Arrangements Co-Chairs, Jennie Levine, University of Maryland, at [log in to unmask] and Mary Mannix, Frederick County Public Libraries, at [log in to unmask] April 20, 2006 9:00 am – 4:30 pm Fee: $60, plus $10.00 workshop registration fee for non-members attending the workshop only or $5.00 fee for members attending the workshop only. Archivists and special collections curators are increasingly faced with acquiring collections with a significant audiovisual component. Deciding whether to accession such collections can be a daunting task: what exactly are the formats being offered? What are the preservation options? What playback equipment is required for access? What are the problems and pitfalls of digital transfer? This workshop offers a systematic analysis of audiovisual materials in terms of physical and mechanical features, acquisition and appraisal issues, and preservation and access considerations. A wide range of recorded sound and moving image formats will be examined. Participants will come away from this workshop able to make informed decisions on what audiovisual materials to acquire and, once acquired, how to manage those materials over time. Instructors: Thomas Connors and Chuck Howell, Broadcasting Archives, University of Maryland. Location: Tremont Plaza, 222 St. Paul Place, Baltimore, MD 21202 For questions regarding the workshop only please contact Paula Larich at [log in to unmask] -- Mary K. Mannix Maryland Room Manager C. Burr Artz Public Library Frederick County Public Libraries Frederick, MD A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>