Chair:
Tony Dykes - COI Footage File

Description: The British "Central Office of Information" (COI) is celebrating it's 60th birthday this year. Set up in 1946 to replace the wartime Ministry of Information the COI has produced a vast array of films to promote health, safety and welfare in Britain and to push British interests abroad. It continues to produce films to this day, mostly for domestic consumption.

This reel shall provide us with a small selection of the best from the last 60 years - starting with an early public information film advising people to watch their water consumption through to a film about a modern day health concern - eating five portions of fruit and vegetables a day. In between we shall see how the COI projected Britain abroad, how it reflected the social upheavals following WWII and how it warned its citizens against a myriad of dangers -too many to mention here! Enjoy and be informed!

Chairs:
Jaine Chandler - British Film Institute
Rick Utley - PRO-TEK Media Preservation Services

Speakers:
Jaine Chandler - British Film Institute
Rick Utley - PRO-TEK Media Preservation Services
Jean-Louis Bigourdan - Image Permanence Institute
Pip Laurenson - Tate UK
Dave Walsh - Imperial War Museum

Description: What's the role of low temperature in preservation and how does storage at low temperature help the lifespan of film materials? When is low temperature preservation storage a viable option and how do we make that decision with the need to balance access to the collection. As a tool low temperature storage can be used to allow time for making informed decisions, allocating resources for preservation, or as a long-term preservation solution.
The session addresses, why low temperatures help the lifespan of materials, what circumstances lead to low temperature environments being a useful or essential preservation tool and asks, how low is low enough. The presentation by the panel members will cover science and case studies, addressing the reasons why and how a need for cold storage is assessed and concluded, then detail the chosen solutions, hoping that delegates will enter into an open forum of discussion.

Co-Chairs:
Sara J. Holmes - Texas Tech University Libraries
Lance Watsky - UCLA - MIAS

Description: The poster session provides individuals, institutions, and groups an opportunity to present research and projects-in-process to the community of moving image archivists. The session will provide ample time for presenters to individually discuss their work with colleagues. Following the session, posters will be placed on display in the Vendor Exhibits on Friday, and a program of abstracts will be available near the registration desk during the conference.

Hosted by: AMIA News, Documentary, and Television Interest Group

Co-Chairs:
Karen Cariani - WGBH Educational Foundation
Mike Martz - KYUK-TV/Bethel Broadcasting, Inc.

Speakers:
Ben Nageak - Tuzzy Consortium Library
Donita Peter - Alaska Native Heritage Center
Steven Alvarez - Alaska Native Heritage Center
Igluguq Dianne Okleasik - Kawerak Eskimo Heritage Program
Debbie Brisebois - Inuit Broadcasting Corporation

Description: Alaska's Indigenous peoples and organizations, along with other Native American tribes and Indigenous peoples around the world, are taking the initiative in the collection, preservation and management of their own audiovisual heritage. This panel session will feature descriptions from Native Alaskan and Canadian Inuit organizations highlighting the status of their archiving efforts.

Co-Chairs:
Andreas Busche
Amy Sloper

Speakers:
Brian Graney - UCLA Film and Television Archive - Stanford Lab
Ken Weissman - Library of Congress, Film Vaults
Catherine Cormon - Nederlands Filmmuseum / AV Preservation
Ryan Pettigrew - Vidipax, LLC
Lynley Shimat Renee Lys - New York University

Description: Academic programs in moving image archiving have only been in place for a few years. In this time, the discipline has already undergone great developments, and some important discussions has been raised - not least due to the fact that a self-understanding of the profession is still being shaped. The existing graduate programs are a place for continuous critical reflection of the discipline, helping to place it in historical context. In short, these programs contribute considerably to form a body of knowledge that will become the legacy of our profession. This roundtable discussion, which brings together three professionals and three (former) students, will evolve around the question, which role can these programs actually play in the shaping of a professional identity in moving image archiving and how far can the graduate programs equip its students with the necessary knowledge for the needs of a discipline as diverse as moving image archiving.

Chair:
William Fowler - British Film Institute

Speakers:
Rick Prelinger - Prelinger Archives
Christoph Blasé - ZKM Center for Art and Media, Berlin
Etienne Sandrin - Pompidou Centre, Paris
Pip Chodorov - Re-voir video - Paris

Description: Although artists' film and video work tends to reflect on or interrogate the broader moving image culture, it can often be seen only in the rarefied context of a specific or special exhibition. To counter this tendency, some arts organizations have created new screening opportunities by deploying digital technologies similar to those adopted by moving image archives, mediatheques, digital networks and access libraries. The panel will examine the relationship between the access strategies for archive material overall and the more specialized area of artists' moving images. What are the issues involved in creating public access for such work? Should we show this material in a format and environment that may differ widely from the artist's original conception? And how do we select and curate this work? Line space

This panel introduces new but relatable organizations to AMIA, and is aimed at curators, access archivists and those working across disciplines.

Hosted by: International Outreach Task Force

Chair:
Ray Edmondson - Archive Associates

Speakers:
Brigitte Paulowitz
Kara van Malssen - New York University
Nancy Marrelli - Concordia University Archives
Andrea McCarty
Lynley-Shimat Lys - New York University

Description: Volunteering your services and skills in helping overseas archives to grow is an idea whose time has come, as a standing-room-only meeting at last year's conference demonstrated. But with the adventure and fulfillment come practicalities and complexities. How do you cope with a foreign language, culture and diet, and develop productive peer relationships? How do you discern the politics and practicalities of the archive's environment? How do you honor promises and maintain contacts after the event? Speakers will share their experiences helping film archives in Burkina Faso, Cambodia, Israel and Thailand, and consider the practicalities of managing volunteer placements so they can have a lasting effect. The ICA (International Council on Archives) "archival solidarity" model will be studied. Discussion will aim at producing a workable action proposal for the AMIA Board.

Hosted by: RAVA Interest Group

Co-Chairs:
Leo Enticknap - Northern Region Film & Television Archive
Kevin N. Tripp - Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA)

Speakers:
Mike Martz - KYUK-TV
Marion Hewitt - North West Film Archive
Barron Sherer - Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive
Tawyna Mosier - University of Utah, Multimedia Archives

Description: With the 2006 Annual Meeting being held in Anchorage, Alaska, it seems a logical time to highlight the work of regional A-V archives. Worldwide presenters will profile their organization, highlighting the regional nature of their mission. Discussion will include issues/concerns that may be unique to the organization's region, the organization's mission, or regional archives in general; an overview of collections and collection types maintained by the organization; the organization's relationship with other cultural institutions inside and outside their region; and the organization's relationship with their community. We hope that this session will offer delegates an insight into the work of the regional moving image archive movement, its unique strengths and its relationship with the wider field.

Co-Chairs:
Tom Zaczyk - Sony Pictures Ent.
Rita Belda - Sony Pictures Ent

Speakers:
Skip Malanowski - Little Warsaw Productions
O. T. Hight - Level 3 Post
Tom Zaczyk - Sony Pictures Ent.
Rita Belda - Sony Pictures Ent

Description: Most film-based television programs made in the past 15 years have been post-produced in Standard Definition video. Preserving and re-purposing these episodics for High Definition is a new challenge for content holders. Series such as Seinfeld are a preservation predicament, because, although the original camera negatives exist, they were never fully conformed following post-production and broadcast. Therefore, titles and special effects don't exist in any other form but standard definition video. Speakers will discuss the problems, pitfalls, and creative solutions involved with accurately rebuilding each program for HD. Much of today's advanced technology was employed to recreate each episode. Preservation of episodic material posits special problems, which will be examined as we address various alternatives for safeguarding this type of programming. The session will be of interest to all skill levels while advanced technical aspects of film and video will be presented.

Hosted by: RAVA Interest Group

Co-Chairs:
Francine Lastufka Taylor - Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA)
Katie Myers - National Park Service

Speakers:
Stephanie Stephens - National Park Service
Karl Gurcke - Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park

Description: Alaska is called the "Great Land". Its national and state parks and other public lands celebrate the grandeur and geographic span from rain forests in the southeast, to taiga in the interior, to the arctic tundra. Alaska's public lands total more than 300 million acres - an area more than twice the size of Texas. The archeology, culture and traditions of the state's indigenous people and the natural sciences are nurtured in these lands.

Presentations from panelists will focus on documentation and preservation of the collections in the past and today featuring curators from the National Park Service and Alaska State Parks and Recreation. Footage from 1918 to the present day will be shown, including Valley of Ten Thousand Smokes from Katmai NP, 1990's footage from Serpentine Hot Springs in Beringia, 1930's footage from Denali NP, footage from a 1918 travelogue from the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, and other footage documenting the land and cultures of the varied and unique regions of Alaska.

Hosted by: MIC

Chair:
Andrea Leigh -UCLA Film & Television Archive

Speakers:
Rick Prelinger - Prelinger Archives
James Turner - Universitéde Montréal EBSI
Jessica Berman Bogdan - Footage Finders/Global Imageworks, LLC
Chris Lacinak - Independent

Description: Join us, and the 2.5 million people who have visited MIC online, as we celebrate the end of the first phase of this innovative AMIA-Library of Congress initiative and engage you, MIC's owners, in guiding its ongoing strategic development. Much more than a cataloging utility and archive directory, MIC serves as a window to the world's moving images for collaborative research, education, professional development, and as a tool for enabling preservation strategies. During MIC's first phase of development, its integrated union catalog, archive directory, and portal structure were set in place. Envisioned for phase two is a digital rights implementation, the development of a METS-compliant cataloging utility to enable archives to manage resources throughout their entire life cycle, and a Service Providers Directory. Panelists representing different communities will briefly share their involvement or interest in MIC and provide their perspective on how they envision MIC for the future. Afterwards, a moderated discussion with panelists and audience members will follow, with topics culled from responses to a MIC survey.

Hosted by: Independent Media Interest Group (IMIG)

Chair:
Sandra Joy Lee - Bay Area Video Coalition

Speakers:
Grace Lile - Witness
David Rice - Democracy Now!
Stephen Parr - San Francisco Media Archive/Oddball Film+Video
Yvonne Ng - The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

Description: Many independent film and media organizations rely on interns and volunteer staff to support their existing infrastructure. Interns are critical and without them many organizations cannot effectively accomplish their archiving and access missions. Cataloging films and videotapes are no longer sufficient to maintain an archive and new media requires more complex skills that require additional training in digitizing, data storage and distribution. This panel will explore and examine how several new media oriented organizations such as Witness, Democracy Now, the San Francisco Media Archive, Oddball Film+Video and The Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre have developed successful new training and mentorship models that advance the goals of both organizations and interns.

Curated by:
Katie Trainor - Independent Film Channel
Leo Enticknap - Northern Region Film & Television Archive

Please join us for the 2006 AMIA Awards Presentations and Archival Screening Night