Please
note - Room Assignments are subject to change.
Please check the Conference
Program when you arrive in Austin for the final room assignment.
Access
Committee
Access Meeting: Friday, December 2 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm - Room
402
Projection & Presentation Meeting: Thursday, December 1 - 6:00pm -
7:00pm - Room 400
The
Access Committee supports moving image archivists to provide all reasonable and
responsible forms of access to their collections. The Access Committee coordinates
information and professional activities, establishes guidelines and standards,
and acts in an advocacy role relating to issues to access. The Access Committee
works with other committees and working groups of AMIA to accomplish this goal.
Advocacy
Task Force
Meeting: Wednesday, November 30 - 4:15pm - 5:45pm - Room
402 The
purposes of the newly formed Advocacy Task Force are to: To develop an advocacy
mission statement for AMIA. To determine what AMIA should advocate for (and what
AMIA should not advocate for). To determine how best to advocate, 4) to review
the AMIA Strategic Plan as it relates to advocacy. To develop and recommend to
the Board of Directors policies and procedures outlining advocacy and communications
processes, and/or, to collaborate with other AMIA committees and possibly other
moving image organizations to develop plans and programs to assist in advocating
for moving image preservation. To detail the advantages & disadvantages of
an Advocacy group and also determine if it should become a standing committee
of the Board.
Awards
Committee
Meeting: Thursday, December 1 - 6:00pm - 7:00pm - Room 402 The
Awards Committee is responsible for soliciting and receiving from the AMIA membership
on an annual basis the names of suitable candidates to receive AMIA's Silver Light
Award and Dan & Kathy Leab Award. The Awards Committee receives and considers
recommendations from the membership as part of the process of preparing a list
of nominees for the awards. The Committee presents its nominations to the AMIA
Board of Directors, which selects the final recipient of each award.
Cataloging
Committee
Meeting: Thursday, December 1- 12:30pm - 1:30pm - Salon
Meeting:
Saturday, December 3 - 1:00pm - 2:00pm - Room 415 In
order to serve the archival moving image community, the Cataloging Committee shall
be a forum for discussion of cataloging issues. In the course of its work, the
Committee shall facilitate the exchange of information through programs and publications,
promote the use of existing national standards for the cataloging of archival
moving image materials, advise the appropriate standard making bodies on cataloging
standards and issues, create new cataloging standards, provide education and information
on cataloging practices, and establish liaisons with related organizations.
Conference
Committee
Meeting: Saturday, December 3 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm - Room 415 The
Conference Committee is responsible for developing the content of each year's
conference as well as for the planning and execution of the annual event. The
Conference Committee is also responsible for long-term conference planning and
coordination.
Development
Committee
Meeting: Friday, December 2 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm - Room 402
The
AMIA Development Committee is dedicated to strengthening AMIA fiscally and encouraging
its growth. The focus of the committee is twofold: fundraising (sponsorship/vendor
exhibition) and membership development.
Digital
Initiatives Committee
Meeting: Thursday, December 1 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm
- Room 402 The
Digital Initiatives Committee is a mechanism for identifying key issues, contributing
expertise, and implementing special projects that lead to recommended practices
for digital concerns that impact the archival moving image and audio field. It
works closely with the AMIA Preservation, Access, Cataloging and Documentation,
and Education Committees, and with other relevant AMIA committees and groups to
achieve these goals. The Digital Initiatives Committee shall inform the AMIA membership
of developments in digital technology, preservation, access, and metadata through
publications, projects, workshops, conference sessions, and recommended practices.
It will represent its constituents' concerns to related organizations through
active liaison relationships.
Diversity
Task Force
hMeeting:
Thursday, December 1 - 6:00pm- 7:00pm - Room 602 The
purposes of the task force are to: Define what is meant by "diversity"
as it applies to AMIA and the field of moving image archiving. Research what other
associations in related fields have done to increase diversity; what has been
effective and what has not? Draft an AMIA position statement on diversity for
the Board to consider; this statement, if approved would become AMIA policy and
be included in the association's strategic plan. Recommend specific goals and
objectives for increasing diversity in AMIA and the field as a whole.
Education
Committee
Meeting: Thursday, December 1 - 7:00 am - 8:00am - Room 602
Meeting:
Saturday, December 3 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm - Room 602 The
AMIA Education Committee believes that the education and training of moving image
archivists is not only central to AMIA's role as a professional association, but
essential to the long-term survival of our moving image heritage. To this end,
the Education Committee promotes, designs, supports, and implements educational
programs, projects, and services that: Contribute to the continuing education
and training of working archivists; and Facilitate the education and training
of students who wish to pursue careers in moving image archive management.
Elections
Committee
Meeting: Thursday, December 1 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm - Room 415 The
AMIA Elections Committee has primary responsibility for conducting AMIA's annual
election process, which it carries out in accordance with the policies and requirements
of the association's Bylaws. Each year, the Committee announces the elections
schedule, solicits recommendations of candidates for Association-wide offices
which are up for election, nominates slates of candidates for these offices, receives
and counts the ballots mailed back by Individual Members, and notifies the candidates
and the membership of the election results. The Committee also oversee any internal
elections within AMIA's Committees of the Membership to help insure that they
occur in a timely and appropriate manner.
International
Outreach Task Force
Meeting: Thursday, December 1 - 6:00pm - 7:30pm - Room 415
Meeting: Friday, December 2 - 6:30pm - 7:30pm
- Room 415
The purpose of the IOTF is: To connect AMIA with ongoing activities in other international organizations that may intersect with and/or enhance AMIA programs; to develop policies and programs that will enable AMIA to reach out to moving image archivists throughout the world, with the specific objective of extending AMIA's services to such archivists in developing countries.; to promote AMIA's programs and services to the world community of moving image archivists; and to extend those services, such as workshops, by organizing activities outside continental North America.
Moving
Image Collections (MIC)
Education & Outreach Meeting: Thursday,
December 1 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm - Room 602
Speakers Bureau Meeting: Friday, December
2 - 6:30pm - 7:00pm - Room 602
MIC is a preservation, access, and education initiative co-sponsored by AMIA and the Library of Congress. MIC (pronounced ‘Mike’) integrates a union catalog, archive directory, and informational resources in a portal structure delivering customized information on archival moving images, their preservation, and the images themselves to diverse constituencies, including archivists, researchers, educators, and the general public. MIC’s resources assist archivists in making their records available to a wider public according to national standards, and enable collaborative preservation decision-making and management on an international scale. MIC also seeks to raise public awareness about preservation issues and risks to our film, television and video heritage. MIC’s mission is to immerse moving images into the education mainstream, recognizing that what society uses, it values, and what it values, it preserves.
Preservation
Committee
Meeting: Saturday, December 3 - 4:15pm - 5:45pm - Salon B To
be guards on the preservation enablers' watchtower. Who seek out trends, enablers
and threats, to be understood, evaluated and reported on in a critical manner.
Seeking out leading experts, thinkers and innovators, to find solutions that are
sustainable and that make sense from a long-term preservation perspective. Developing
ways to use, re-use and re-purpose archival treasures and to provide access to
the results thereof. To demystify the archival enabling technologies involved.
Publications
Committee
Meeting Agendas
Education Committee Meeting: Thursday, December 1 - 1:00pm
- 2:00pm - Room 415
Book Publishing Task Force Meeting: Friday, December 2
- 1:00pm - 2:00pm - Room 602
The
goal of the AMIA Publication Committee is to coordinate and direct publications
including: AMIA's journal The Moving Image, the AMIA Newsletter, the AMIA website,
and various special publications. The intention of the committee is to serve the
AMIA membership, the archival moving image community, and the public at large.
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