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Independent Media Arts Preservation

Date
1999
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
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"Independent Media Arts Preservation." Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2011. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/independent-media-arts-preservation-0.

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