[ARSCLIST] Call for Papers - IASA 2008 - "No archive is an Island"

[Jacqueline von Arb <jacqueline.vonarb@xxxxxx>]

No Archive is an Island

The 2008 conference of the International Association of Sound and
Audiovisual Archives (IASA) will be hosted by the Australasian Sound
Recordings Association (ASRA) at the Australian National Maritime Museum in
Sydney, Australia from 13?19 September 2008.

The survival of sound and audiovisual archives is dependent on the exchange
of ideas, shared standards, similar technological approaches and mutual
support.  The conference is intending to explore the activities,
achievements, interconnections and relationships between individuals and
institutions active in the field of sound and audiovisual collections.

The ASRA IASA 2008 international conference will attract speakers and
delegates from Australia, the Pacific, Asia, Europe and the Americas
including senior archival and collections staff from research, broadcast
and national audiovisual archives and libraries. and leading experts in
technology, preservation, documentation and access.

IASA and ASRA members represent expertise in radio, research, oral history,
social history, audiovisual collections, musicology, linguistics,
ethnography, ethnomusicology, folklore, recordings, records, music, sound
art, preservation, collection description, cataloguing, metadata, archival
management and the provision of access to collections of audiovisual
materials.

Call for Papers

IASA and ASRA invite proposals for papers that address one or more of the
following sub-themes:
·       Low resource tropical archiving
·       Grass root archiving with small institutes and small nations
·       Interconnection and cooperation
·       Resource sharing
·       Federated digital delivery systems
·       Cooperative delivery systems in an innovative environment
·       Oral histories: rising tides - cultural tides, tides of Native
Title and Indigenous ownership
·       Isolation, Innovation and Diversity
·       Remote broadcasting and archive implications.
·       Preservation of historical memories in sound and audiovisual forms
·       Audiovisual records as a memory of revolutionary change
·       The role of archives retaining history
Abstracts for papers should be submitted no later than Thursday, 31 January
2008. For more information and guidelines for authors, please visit the
conference website: http://www.iasa2008.com/