British and Irish Sound Archives - resources

Professional bodies

webmanager — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:47:26 +0000

IASA

Established in 1969, IASA was set up to function as "a medium for international co-operation between archives that preserve recorded sound and audiovisual documents". IASA is now the pre-eminent representative body on all matters relevant to sound archiving throughout the world. The annual conference of IASA is always a major professional communication event at which presentations on the latest thinking on preservation and access are mixed with case studies, regional reports, site visits, etc. See the IASA website for more details.

FIAT/IFTA

FIAT/IFTA stands for the "International Federation of Television Archives" (in both English and French) and is "an international professional association established to provide a means for co-operation amongst broadcast and national audiovisual archives and libraries concerned with the collection, preservation and exploitation of moving image and recorded sound materials and associated documentation." For more information see the FIAT/IFTA website.

IAML

According to its website "the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres encourages and promotes the activities of music libraries, archives and documentation centres to support and facilitate the realization of projects in music bibliography, music documentation and music library and information science at national and international levels." See www.iaml.info/ for more information.

AMIA

The Association of Moving Image Archivist is, to quote from its website, "a non-profit professional association established to advance the field of moving image archiving by fostering cooperation among individuals and organizations concerned with the acquisition, description, preservation, exhibition and use of moving image materials." It holds an annual conference and hosts a lively mailing list on which issues relating to sound archiving are discussed from time to time. For more information see the AMIA website.

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Mailing lists

webmanager — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 22:46:39 +0000

AMIA-L

AMIA-L is an e-mail discussion list sponsored by the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). Subscription to AMIA-L is open to the public: for more information see the AMIA website.

BISA

The BISA mailing list is designed to serve as a forum for information relating to sound archiving, BISA events, etc. For subscription please go to https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=BISA.

IASA

International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives. This mailing list is intended to improve communication among IASA members. For information on how to join see the mailing lists page on the IASA website.

NEWSLIB

An e-mail discussion list for news and media librarians hosted by the University of North Carolina. Subscription to Newslib is open to all media librarians. For information on how to join see the Newslib page at the Park Library.

ARCHIVES-NRA

The UK e-mail discussion list for archivists, conservators and records managers. Hosted by Jisc. For information on how to join click on the link here.

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Knowledge Resources

webmanager — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 20:17:16 +0000

The primary aim of BISA is to share information and knowledge about the business of sound archiving. This section of the website provides links to web resources chosen by our members for their appropriateness and relevance to the community of sound archivists. The list is moderated by the BISA committee: please note that the appearance of web resources here does not indicate endorsement by BISA.

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