[padg] California preservation assessment of A/V recordings

[Barclay Ogden <bogden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi PADG,

        

I'm
delighted to report that California has completed a statewide survey of
the preservation needs of moving image and recorded sound collections.
Though only a fraction of all institutions in the state with audiovisual
collections, 32 libraries and archives participated in the survey,
representing something over a million recordings. The preservation needs
are significantly large; a third of all recordings remain uncataloged and
a fourth of all recordings are considered to be of high value and in need
of preservation reformatting now. Please have a look at the final report
with outcomes and appendices at

http://calpreservation.org/management/cppav/av_needs.html. The survey
was undertaken by the California Preservation Program with funding from
the California State Library.

        

The survey
instrument used was CALIPR, originally written to survey preservation
needs of print based collections, but recently rewritten for the Web and
modified to accommodate audiovisual collections. CALIPR is hosted at UC
Berkeley
(
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/CALIPR/) and is available for use by all
libraries and archives at no charge.

        

Many
thanks; I'd be most grateful for comments on the report... and on next
steps. Barclay

Barclay Ogden
California Preservation Program
(Head, Preservation Department)
20 Doe Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720
phone 510.642.4946
fax 510.642.4664
bogden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx