About the Audiovisual and Multimedia Section
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.
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
Chair:
Marwa El Sahn
Head of Section/Francophone Library Department
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
El Shatby
21526 ALEXANDRIA
Egypt
Tel. +(203)48439999
Fax +(203)4820460
Email: marwa.elsahn@bibalex.org
Secretary/Treasurer:
Harriet Sonne de Torrens, MA., MISt., Ph.D., L.M.S.
Communications, Culture and Technology Building, Rm. 3021
University of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Road North Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6
Canada
Tel. +1(905)5694610
Email: harriet.sonne@utoronto.ca
Information Coordinator/Web Editor:
Michael J. Miller
Associate Librarian for Public Services
Queens College Libraries
260 Seaman Avenue, Apt. E-3
NEW YORK, NY 10034
United States
Tel.+(1)(718)9973761
Fax+(1)(718)9973753
Email: michael.miller@qc.cuny.edu
Last update: 24 November 2012