Audiovisual and Multimedia Section
Scope
The Audiovisual and Multimedia Section (AVMS) is the international forum for persons working with non book media in every kind of library and information service. In this regard AVMS:
- concerns itself extensively with all issues relating to sound, still and moving images and multimedia documents, including collection development, cataloguing, access and conservation, as well as services based upon them, such as children's libraries, language centres, and multimedia digital libraries delivered via the Internet.
- promotes the development of specialist expertise regarding: sources and methods of acquisition; technical issues for carriers and equipment, whether current or historic; legal issues affecting the collection, transfer and delivery of documents; and media-specific rules and formats for cataloguing.
- maintains relationships with relevant IFLA Sections and Core Activities, and other professional organizations for audiovisual archives.
Special expertises are required about sources and methods of acquisitions, technical issues for historical and for new carriers and equipments, legal issues affecting collecting, transferring and delivering documents, specifics rules and formats of cataloguing, and all kinds of libraries are concerned.
Relations have to be established in IFLA with corresponding groups and with PAC and UAP Core Activities, and out of IFLA with professional organizations of sound and audiovisual archives.
Strategic Plan
Publications
Guidelines for audiovisual and multimedia materials in libraries
Translations
Afrikaans:
Riglyne vir Oudiovisuele en Multimedia Materiaal in biblioteke en ander instellings
Arabic:

Bahasa Melayu:
Garispanduan untuk bahan-bahan audiovisual dan multimedia di dalam perpustakaan dan institusi lain
Catalan:
Directrius per a materials audiovisuals i multimèdia en biblioteques i altres institucions
Chinese:

Croatian:
Smejernice za audiovizualnu i multimedijsku gradu u knjinicama i drugim ustanovama
Farsi:

Italian:
Linee guida IFLA per i materiali audiovisivi e multimediali nelle biblioteche e in altre istituzioni
a cura della Sezione 'Audiovisual and Multimedia' dell'IFLA
French:
Recommandations relatives aux Documents Audiovisuels et Multimédias a l'usage des bibliothèques et autres institutions
German:
Richtlinien für Audiovisuelle und Multimedia-Materialien in Bibliotheken und anderen Institutionen
Korean:

Latvian:
Audiovizuālie un multivides materiāli bibliotēkās un citās institūcijās: vadlīnijas
Norwegian:
Retningslinjer for audiovisuelt og multimediemateriale i bibliotek og andre institusjoner
Portuguese:
Directrizes para materiais audiovisuais e multimedia em bibliotecas e outras instituições
Romanian:
Reguli pentru materialele audiovizuale şi multimedia din biblioteci şi alte instituţii
Russian:
Руководство по аудиовизуальным и мультимедийным документам для библиотек и других организаций
Serbian:
Smernice za audiovizualnu i multimedijalnu gradu u bibliotekama i drugim institucijama
Spanish:
Directrices para materiales audiovisuales y multimedia en bibliotecas y otras instituciones
Conservation des documents audiovisuels et multimédias: Questions éthiques
Section Newsletter
Section Brochure
Annual Reports
2006-2007 |
2004-2005 |
2003-2004 |
2002-2003 |
2001-2002 |
1999-2000 |
Conferences
Minutes of Meetings
- Durban, South Africa, August 2007
- Seoul, Korea, August 2006
- Oslo, Norway, August 2005
- Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2004
- Berlin, Germany, August 2003
- Glasgow, Scotland, August 2002
- Boston, USA, August 2001
- Jerusalem, Israel, August 2000
Related Organizations
The Association for Recorded Sound Collections is a non-profit organization dedicated to research, study, publication, and information exchange surrounding all aspects of recordings and recorded sound. ARSC works to encourage the preservation of historical recordings, and to foster an increased awareness of the importance of recorded sound as part of any cultural heritage. www.arsc-audio.org
The Association of Moving Image Archivists is a non-profit professional association established to advance the field of moving image archiving by fostering cooperation among individuals and organizations concerned with the acquisition, preservation, exhibition and use of moving image materials. www.amianet.org
The Co-ordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations represents the interests of worldwide professional archive organisations with interests in audiovisual materials including films, broadcast television and radio, and audio recordings of all kinds. www.ccaaa.org
The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives functions as a medium for international co-operation between archives that preserve recorded sound and audiovisual documents. IASA supports the exchange of information and fosters international co-operation between audiovisual archives in all fields. www.iasa-web.org
The International Council on Archives (ICA) is dedicated to the advancement of archives worldwide. Archives, by providing evidence of human activities and transactions, underlie the rights of individuals and states, and are fundamental to democracy and good governance. Archives safeguard the memory of mankind by preserving records of its past. www.ica.org
The International Federation of Film Archives is a collaborative association of the world's leading film archives whose purpose has always been to ensure the proper preservation and showing of motion pictures. www.fiafnet.org
The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions is the leading international body representing the interests of library and information services and their users. It is the global voice of the library and information profession.
www.ifla.org
The International Federation of Television Archives provides a means for co-operation amongst broadcast and national audiovisual archives and libraries concerned with the collection, preservation and exploitation of moving image and recorded sound materials and associated documentation. www.fiatifta.org
The aim of MEDEA is to encourage innovation and good practice in the use of digital moving images and sound in education. The award will also recognise and promote excellence in the production and pedagogical design of media-rich learning resources. www.medea-awards.com
The Multimedia and Information Technology Group aims to unite members of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals engaged in or interested in multimedia information and technology developments in library and information science, and to enable communication between them, to facilitate the exchange of ideas and experience and the promotion of their professional interests. mmit.willco.com
The Southeast Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive Association provides a regional forum for addressing common issues and concerns related to the collection and preservation of, and provision of access to, the audiovisual heritage of member countries. www.seapavaa.org
The UNESCO Audio Visual Archives Programme seeks to preserve the audiovisual heritage comprising film, television and sound recordings. portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=1988
&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html
Mailing List
SCAVM-L Section on Audiovisual and Multimedia discussion list
Submissions: scavm-l@infoserv.inist.fr
Web interface: http://infoserv.inist.fr/wwsympa.fcgi/info/scavm-l
Useful Addresses
Chair:
Trond Valberg
Scientific Officer
National Library of Norway
P.O. Box 2674 Solli
0203 OSLO
Norway
Tel. +(47)(23)276000
Fax +(47)(23)276010
E-mail: trond.valberg@nb.no
Secretary/Treasurer:
Bruce Royan
Chief Executive Officer
Concurrent Computing Ltd
41 Greenhill Gardens
EDINBURGH, Scotland, EH10 4BL
United Kingdom
Tel. +(44)(131) 4473151
E-mail: bruce.royan@concurrentcomputing.com
Information Coordinator/Editor of Newsletter:
Marwa El Sahn
Head of Arts & Multimedia Library
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
El Shatby
21526 ALEXANDRIA
Egypt
Tel. +(20)(3)48439999
Fax +(20)(3)4820460
E-mail: marwa.elsahn@bibalex.org