Arrangement and Description of Audiovisual Materials
Learn how to arrange and describe archival sound, video, and film materials found in mixed-media archival collections. In the morning you'll focus on understanding how to work with archival audiovisual media, including sections on format identification, evaluating content, and assessing institutional capacity for providing access for researchers. In the afternoon, you'll look at processing procedures in depth, including pre-processing assessment of archival audiovisual materials, intellectual and physical arrangement, describing audiovisual materials in EAD according to DACS, and strategies for processing audiovisual materials at minimal, intermediate, and full levels of processing.