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To all IASA Members:          

2014 is an election year for the IASA Executive Board.

As stated in the constitution: “The Executive Board shall be elected by the members of the Association. Any member in good standing shall be eligible to stand for election.” - See more at: http://www.iasa-web.org/iasa-constitution#part3-Exec and further details about the Executive Board elections

Dear IASA members and followers,

We invite you to attend the 45th IASA (International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives) Annual Conference.

“Connecting Cultures: Content, Context, and Collaboration”

Cape Town, South Africa, Sunday 5th — Thursday 9th October 2014 #iasa2014

http://2014.iasa-web.org

Version 0.3 of Fixity, the free fixity monitoring tool developed by AVPreserve, has been officially released for download on AVPreserve's Tools page and via GitHub. Fixity creates a manifest of files stored in directories identified by the user, documenting file names, locations, and checksums. The user can then schedule regular reviews of the directories to monitor for any changes to files that may point to data corruption or loss.

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s CEO, Michael Loebenstein, officially opened the NFSA’s newest collection preservation facility in Canberra on 3 December.