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In 2014, AVPreserve and the Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC), with funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, undertook an in-depth, multi-faceted assessment to quantify the existing audio items held in institutional collections throughout the United States. This was performed in response to The Library of Congress National Recording Preservation Plan and its call for the appraisal of collections, as well as to establish a foundation for articulating the current preservation need of sound recordings in collections nationwide.

The 2015 FIAT/IFTA World Conference will take place in Vienna from October 7th until October 10th 2015.

This year theme will be:
 
“Audiovisual Culture, a bridge to the future”

We would like to share the good news that the index of record catalogues published before 1959 and located in several Spanish institutions is available on the website of AEDOM – the Spanish branch of IAML: Matriz (http://www.aedom.org/matriz).

This article from the Straits Times is a rare public celebration of an AV conservationist and may be of interest to the wider IASA family.

http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapore/restoring-sights-and-sounds-past-...

Thanks to George Boston for passing it on from the British and Irish Sound Archives (a multi-national IASA branch).