- Various Articles Bibliography
The Newsletter of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. Published quarterly.
- Preservation and Conservation Organizations - Profiles and Links Preservation
Annotated directory of preservation organizations, working groups, publications and online resources addressing moving image, audio, magnetic media and digital preservation; sections cover archivists, library organizations, conservators, technical standards, information services, audio preservation, digital preservation and listservs. Entries include AMIA, SAA, ALA, CLIR (Commission on Preservation and Access), Library of Congress, RLG (with a 1997–98 NARAS-funded project), AIC and EMSIG (formed 1997), Image Permanence Institute (RIT, Rochester, NY), National Media Laboratory (hosted by 3M), SMPTE, WGBH UPF, IMAP, Media Alliance (founded 1979; 1991 survey and conference), ARSC, AES, IASA, InterPARES and the Internet Archive; the text cites reports, manuals and listservs for further information.
- Independent Media Arts Preservation Chronology
Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP) is established, with support from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation.
- Independent Media Arts Preservation Chronology
With support from the New York Foundation for the Arts, IMAP conducts a needs-assessment for a web-based cataloging tutorial and union catalog of independent media collections, under the direction of Jim Hubbard
- Learning More About Video Preservation Preservation
Selected bibliography and online resource list for moving-image and audiovisual preservation, comprising journals, technical reports, handbooks, conference proceedings and institutional reports published between 1974 and 2001; contributors include AMIA, Ampex, 3M, UNESCO, FIAF, the Library of Congress and the National Archives. The record cites specific titles, articles and manuals, provides URLs for online bibliographies, and lists education and training programs and institutions such as Harvard, UCLA, George Eastman House, NYU, ARCHIMEDIA and the FIAF Summer School.
- Background and History Preservation
Experimental Television Center produced this guide and organized the Video History Project, documenting early video art and community television in upstate New York (1968–1980) through oral histories, a website and the Video History: Making Connections conference (Syracuse University, October 1998). The text cites Media Alliance and publications such as Deirdre Boyle's Video Preservation and the Magnetic Media Preservation Sourcebook, and notes IMAP's 1999 formation with New York State Council on the Arts and Rockefeller Foundation support. It outlines archivist functions, videotape deterioration modes and chronology of preservation activities through 2002.