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Audiovisual archiving—the collecting, preserving, management, and use of audiovisual heritage—has established its credentials as a distinct profession. The first audiovisual archives came into existence about a century ago, but sustained growth is basically a phenomenon of the second half of the 20th century. [2] Andreas Bohnenstengel Negative
IASA has members from more than 70 countries representing a broad palette of audiovisual archives and personal interests which are distinguished by their focus on particular subjects and areas, for example: archives for all sorts of musical recordings, historic, literary, folkloric and ethnological sound documents, theatre productions and oral history interviews, bio-acoustics, environmental ...
The Archives have been expanding continuously since then, with the establishment in 1976 of the Child Development Film Archives. In 1980, numerous gifts of books were added to the collection, and they include published literature dealing with the "substantive content of psychology as well as with its history and philosophy."
With a further $150 million from the Packard Humanities Institute and $82.1 million from Congress, the facility was transformed into the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center, which completed construction in mid-2007, and after transfer of the bulk of archives, opened for free public movie screenings on most weekends in the fall 2008. The ...
The Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations (CCAAA) is an umbrella group of international private organizations working on audiovisual archiving. These professional organizations have a common goal of promoting and encouraging the preservation and the accessibility of the world's audiovisual heritage. [ 1 ]
The Audiovisual Institute of Monaco (Institut Audiovisuel de Monaco) is a Monegasque organization aimed to list, gather, restore, conserve, protect, share and promote audiovisual archives. [1] The Institute proposes to show how the Principality of Monaco is represented in cinema, and to give a better cross reading of history. [2]
Membership is open to anyone who has an interest in the preservation of moving images and associated sound recordings: in practice, most of the membership are professional archivists (both public sector and commercial) and people working in associated professions, e.g. librarianship, the film and television industry or academics in related fields.
Preservation emerged with the establishment of the first central archives. In 1789, during the French Revolution, the Archives Nationales was established and later, in 1794, transformed into a central archive. [15] This was the first independent national archive and its goal was to preserve and store documents and records as they were.