Symposium on moving image archival education and training

The Future of Moving Image Archival Education and Training:
Building New Models and Partnerships
Terrace ABC Room
Sheraton Universal Hotel
Tuesday, November 14, 2000
9 am - 5 PM
Organized by the UCLA Film and Television Archive and the AMIA
Education Committee.

All interested archivists, students, and educators are invited to
attend a symposium on "The Future of Moving Image Archival Education
and Training: Building New Models and Partnerships."

The symposium, the first gathering of its kind in North America,
will be held on November 14 during the annual conference of the
Association of Moving Image Archivists at the Sheraton Universal
Hotel in Los Angeles. The schedule of sessions and speakers as it
has been developed to date is provided below. Complete conference
program and registration information can be found at
<URL:http://www.amianet.org/04_Annual/04b_LA2k/04b01_index.html>.

This day-long symposium will assess progress in the field to date,
while also discussing the future of moving image archival education
with the goal of fostering new educational strategies,
collaborations and exchanges on an international scale. Much work
remains to be done in these areas, work that will be essential in
establishing moving image archiving as a profession with its own
unique knowledge base, professional standards, and academic
credentials.

For decades, archivists have learned their trade primarily through
on-site vocational training, an apprenticeship model of "learning by
doing" while "on the job." More recently, this model has proven
itself inadequate, and has been joined by a diverse range of
educational opportunities that are being offered internationally on
an ongoing basis. These include summer schools, workshops and short
courses, archive-centered schools, training networks, distance
learning initiatives, online tutorials and resource guides,
scholarship programs, as well as academic-centered models involving
permanent, postgraduate, university-based education within curricula
and degree offerings that combine hands-on training with broader,
interdisciplinary requirements.

Symposium Participants: Many of these new programs have been created
through model collaborations involving archives, universities, film
studies departments, library and information science schools,
professional associations, producers, preservation laboratories and
service providers, and funding agencies. The Education Symposium
will bring together representatives from these sectors--public and
private, academic and archival--to discuss the needs of the field,
propose solutions, and further develop these partnerships.

Participants in the symposium will be grouped into a series of
topical sessions or focus groups structured within the day-long
event, with informal presentations and roundtable discussions on a
range of educational issues featured in each session. Speakers are
being invited to address questions and propose visionary solutions
for developing the profession and building new relationships in each
of the core discussion areas. Responses from other symposium
speakers as well as AMIA conference attendees will form a crucial
part of the symposium dialogue.

Morning Sessions:

1.  International Initiatives

    What are the developing models for international cooperation and
    student exchange, whether involving sponsorship by
    national-level institutions, regional groups, or international
    federations?

    Moderator: Steven Ricci, UCLA Film and Television Archive

    Speakers:  ARCHIMEDIA European Training Network (pending
    confirmation)
    Paolo Cherichi Usai, FIAF Summer School
    Juana Perujo, Filmoteca de la UNAM
    Ray Edmondson, South East Asia-Pacific Audiovisual Archive
    Association (SEAPAVAA)

2.  Training for Regional and Community-Based Archives

    What are the training needs of smaller, community-based archives
    with local or special collection mandates, as distinct from
    larger corporate or national-level archives with specialized
    staff and divisions of labor?

    Moderator: Maryann Gomes, Northwest Film Archive, and AMIA
    Regional Audiovisual Archives Interest Group Chair

    Speakers:  Chon Noriega, UCLA Department of Film and Television
    (other speakers pending confirmation)

3.  Continuing Education

    In addition to new students, how can professional organizations
    and universities best meet the ongoing career development needs
    of working professionals in the archival or related fields? What
    are the different priority skills sets most relevant to
    employers in different sectors of the archival community?

    Moderator: James Turner, University of Montreal, and AMIA
    Education Committee Co-chair

    Speakers:  Alan Lewis, National Archives and Records
    Administration, and AMIA Basic Training Workshops Instructor
    Paolo Cherchi Usai, George Eastman House L. Jeffrey Selznick
    School of Film Preservation
    Howard Sisko, UCLA
    Gregory Lukow, UCLA Film and Television Archive

4.  Curricular Materials

    What are the basic reference works needed to support the
    teaching of archival work? What is the field's core literature?
    How can archival materials themselves be incorporated into
    innovative new pedagogical tools--test reels, instructional
    videos, digital tutorials--to enhance visual literacy and
    diagnostic skills?

    Moderator: (to be confirmed)

    Speakers:  Sally Hubbard, UCLA Film and Television Archive
    Michael Friend, FIAF Technical Commission
    Nicola Mazzanti, L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna

5.  Distance Learning

    What are the unique strengths and challenges of distance
    learning training models? What roles have Internet-based
    curriculum or online tutorials been able to play in providing
    education without borders? Are there skills and areas of
    knowledge that are easier or more difficult to teach through
    these approaches?

    Moderator: (to be confirmed)
    Speakers:  Paul Wilson, University of Texas at Austin
    Ray Edmondson, National Screen and Sound Archive, Australia
    Nicola Mazzanti, L'Immagine Ritrovata, Bologna
    David Lee, Wessex Film and Sound Archive, and Society of
    Archivists (UK) Film and Sound Group

Afternoon Sessions:

6.  University Degrees

    How can students with moving image archival interests be
    accommodated in traditional programs and departments (e.g.,
    library sciences, media studies, etc.)? How can dedicated new
    degree programs be established through cross-disciplinary
    innovation? What will be the impact on the profession of new
    university-based degree credentials?

    Moderators: Steven Ricci and Gregory Lukow, UCLA Film and
    Television Archive

    Speakers:  David Cleveland, East Anglian Film Archive,
    University of East Anglia
    Michele Cloonan, UCLA Department of Information Studies
    Paolo Cherchi Usai George Eastman House Selznick School
    Antonia Lant, New York University Department of Cinema Studies

7.  Relations with the Academic and Research Communities

    How can the essential reciprocity between archivists and the
    academic community be maintained in the areas of collections
    development, information management, historical research,
    scholarly use, and traditional and multimedia publication? What
    contributions can both make not only to the establishment of
    study lists and canons but also the larger cultural heritage?

    Moderator: (to be confirmed)

    Speakers:  Jan-Christopher Horak, Hollywood Entertainment
    Museum, and AMIA Journal Editor

    Lynda Lee Kaid, University of Oklahoma Political
    Communications Center and Archive
    Chon Noriega, UCLA Department of Film and Television.
    Dan Streible, University of South Carolina, and AMIA
    Academic-Archival Interest Group Chair

8.  Partnerships

    How can innovative new forms of collaboration and support from
    private sector producers, service providers, government
    agencies, and major foundations be enlisted to further advance
    the needs of the field in such areas as program development,
    internships, scholarships, and job placement programs?

    Moderator: Eddie Richmond, AMIA Education Committee, and UCLA
    Film and Television Archive

    Speakers:  David Gracy, University of Texas at Austin Graduate
    School of Library and Information Science, and President,
    Academy of Certified Archivists
    Rick Utley, PRO-TEK Media Preservation Vault, a Cinesite Company
    Keri Botello, UCLA Department of Information Studies Internship
    Program
    (other speakers pending confirmation)

9.  Closing Plenary

    Moderators: Steven Ricci and Gregory Lukow, UCLA Film and
    Television Archive

    Speakers:  Paolo Cherchi Usai, George Eastman House Selznick
    School
    David Gracy, University of Texas at Austin Graduate School of
    Library and Information Science, and President, Academy of
    Certified Archivists
    James Turner, University of Montreal, and AMIA Education
    Committee Co-chair



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