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
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Chair
Trond Valberg
Head Curator
National Library of Norway
P.O. Box 2674 Solli
0203 OSLO
Norway
Tel. +(47)75121180
Fax +(47)23276010
E-mail: trond.valberg@nb.no
Secretary/Treasurer
Eila Rämö
Head of the Information Services
Deputy Director Aalto University School of Art and Design Library
Hämeentie 135 C
FIN-00560 HELSINKI
Finland
Tel. +(358)(9)75630243
Fax +(358)(9)75630246
E-mail: eila.ramo@taik.fi
Information Coordinator/Web Editor
Marwa El Sahn
Head of Archive Unit/Studio Section
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
El Shatby
21526 ALEXANDRIA
Egypt
Tel. +(203)48439999
Fax +(203)4820460
E-mail: marwa.elsahn@bibalex.org
Newsletter Editor
James Turner
Professeur titulaire
EBSI, Université de Montréal
C.P. 6128, succursale Centre-ville
MONTREAL, QUEBEC, H3C 3J7
Canada
Tel. +(1)(514)3432454
Fax +(1)(514)3435753
E-mail: james.turner@umontreal.ca
Last update: 2 November 2009