Note: This programme is provisional and will be subject to additions, changes and amendments. It was last amended on 13 July 2001. All sessions are open to all delegates except where indicated.
0930-1800 IASA Executive Board meeting (closed)
0930-1800 IASA Task Force on Selection (closed)
British Library Conference Centre: meeting rooms 1-4
1100-1800 ARSC Board meeting (closed)
1100-1800 IASA Executive Board meeting and committee/section meetings (closed)
1300-1500 IASA Discography Committee open session
1630-1800 Newcomer session
British Library Foyer
1830-2000 Opening reception
British Library Conference Centre: main auditorium.
Note: delegates will have access to the conference centre from 0845 am on Monday 24 September
0930-1000 Opening session
Lynne Brindley (Chief Executive, The British Library):
Welcome to delegates
1000-1100 IASA General Assembly I (IASA only)
1130-1300 AV collections and national and cultural identity (1)
Ilse Assmann (South African Broadcasting): South African renaissance
and a call to reality
Bala Saho (Gambian National Council for Arts and Culture):
The role of the Research and Documentation Division in Gambian national culture
Maxwell Addo (International Centre for African Music and Dance,
Accra, Ghana): Beyond collection: current trends in the ICAMD audio-visual archive
1430-1600 It’s my collection and I’m proud of it (1)
James McCarthy (former president, IASA): Music from a Wide
Brown Land: the original film music collection at Film Australia
Nicole Blain (CBC): The Clyde Gilmour Archive at the Canadian
Broadcasting Corporation Music Library
Chris Strachwitz (Arhoolie Records): The future for my collection
of Mexican and Mexican-American recordings
1630-1800 Technical issues
Bill Klinger (Cylinder Subcommittee, ARSC Technical
Committee): The ARSC Guidelines for Cylinder Playback Equipment
Dietrich Schuller (IASA Technical Committee): Safeguarding
the audio-visual heritage – an introduction to the new edition of TC03 (subject
to confirmation)
Don McLean The restoration of recordings of early mechanically
scanned television pictures
British Library Conference Centre: meeting rooms 1-4
1030-1130 ARSC breakaway session0930-1730 Exhibitions and poster sessions: AV Archives
in the UK
Steve Hussey (University of Cambridge): The archive of teacher
memory
Joanne Stewardson (National Archive of Railway Oral History):
Collecting the unwritten history of the railways
National Sound Archive curatorial staff: The collections of
the National Sound Archive
Beth Thomas (Museum of Welsh Life, National Museums and Galleries
in Wales)
Cathlin Macaulay (School of Scottish Studies, University of
Edinburgh)
John Riley (British Universities Film and Video Council): TRILT:
Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching Society of Archivists
Audio-Visual Group: exhibition
The Imperial War Museum, London SE1
1900-2100 Joint reception with FIAT (the TV archivists’ international association)- still subject to confirmation
British Library Conference Centre (opens 0915): main auditorium
0930-1100 Broadcasting collections
Majella Breen/ John McDonagh (RadioTelefis Eireann):
Radio days: preserving 75 years of Irish radio
Phil Gries (Archival Television Audio): Private collections
of TV soundtracks: the sole survivors
Sue Stinson (Syracuse University)/Joe Salerno:
Broadcast collections at the Belfer Archive, Syracuse
1130-1300 AV collections and national and cultural identity (2)
Andrew Green (Head, National Library of Wales): The
newly created National Screen and Sound Archive of Wales
Aldis Putelis (Archives of Latvian Folklore): Voices from the
past, voices for the future - the audio collection of the ALF
Wolfgang Weber (Vorarlberg Archives): Demanding the Impossible?
Building an oral history collection for the Vorarlberg Provincial Archives,
Austria
British Library Conference Centre: meeting rooms 1-4
0930-1400 Exhibitions and poster sessions
Radio Telefis Eireann Archives: The first 75 years
Gerda Lechleitner (Phonogrammarchiv, Austrian Academy of Sciences):
Sound documents from the Vienna Phonogrammarchiv: The complete historical collections
1899-1950
Bridget Carr (BSO Archive): Reissues of historic radio broadcasts
by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
Suresh Chandvankar (Secretary, Society of Indian Record Collectors,
Mumbai): Record labels of India
Brian Capon: CLOR (Computer listing of opera recordings)
Carol Radovich: The Rockefeller Archive Center survey of Film, Television and
Radio material in its collections
Various locations
1400-1800 Professional visits
BBC Sound Archive Preservation Project
The EMI Sound Archive
The audio collections of the Imperial War Museum
BBC Sound Archives at Broadcasting House
British Library Conference Centre (opens 0915): main auditorium
0930-1100 It’s my collection and I’m proud of it (2)
Christobal Diaz (Fundacion Musicalia
Puerto Rico): assembling, researching and depositing my audio collection
Carlos Hagen-Lautrup (Chile/US/Iceland): collecting for educational
use in a restrictive copyright environment
David Barnes (Archive owner) and Tony
Russell (Editor, broadcaster and journalist, compiler of the CMF Discography
of Country Music): The British Archive of Country Music (video presentation
prepared for the conference)
1130-1300 AV collections and national and cultural identity (3)
Verena Alberti (Research and Documentation Center
for Brazilian Contemporary History): personal archives and oral history in Brazilian
contemporary history
Thomas Gadmer (University of Zurich): The sound of Swiss dialects
- hidden treasures of the Zurich Phonogrammarchiv
Fero Horvath (Slovak Radio): Identification of sound documents
in the archives of the Slovak Radio, Bratislava
1430-1630 Research
Jerry Fabris (Edison National Historic Site): Thomas
Edison and the rise of jazz
Rainer Lotz: Two Jewish-owned record companies in Nazi Berlin,
1933-37
Peter Lewis (London School of Economics and UK Radio Studies
Network): Buried treasure: making radio archives available for teaching
George Brock-Nannestad (Preservation Tactics) What can we collect?
Reality and myth in audiovisual archiving
1700-1800 Discography
Brian Rust, Frank Andrews and Rainer Lotz: The ARSC
Lifetime Award winners discuss recent work and publications
British Library Conference Centre: meeting rooms 1-4
0930-1800 Trade exhibitions, demonstrations and posters
Cube Technologies GmbH: Quadriga
Otari Europe GmbH: DAS
SIRSI Corporation: Library information systems
0930-1600 Technical workshop
0930-1300 Peter Copeland (British Library National
Sound Archive): Getting back to the original sound on old recordings: hiss processing;
neutralising distortion on acoustic recordings; synchronising two copies of
a recording to optimise sound quality
14.30- 16.00 Jörg Houpert (Cube Technologies): Archiving with
Quadriga
1900-2100 Special joint meeting
Hosted by ARSC and the City of London Phonograph and Gramophone Society (founded 1919): There will be a presentation by John Cowley: The Dollar and the Pound: West Indian calypsos from a British perspective in the 1950s
Hamilton House: Mander Hall
0930-1100 AV collections and national and cultural identity (4)
Don Niles (Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies):
Now that they're back, what do we do with them? The repatriation of early recordings
to Papua New Guinea
Gisa Jähnichen (ATML - National Library of Laos/Vientiane):
Collecting principles and their obstacles, or how to collect "nothing"
Timkehet Teffera (Addis Abeba/Berlin): Preserving sound archives
in the Institute of Ethiopian Studies at Addis Abeba University
1130-1230 Reissues
Panel discussion with reissue company owners and producers:
What labels want from collectors: the importance of personal archives in reissue
projects
1400-1500 Looking ahead
Kevin Bradley (NLA): Archiving the web at the National
Library of Australia
Murray Weston (British Universities Film and Video Council):
Enabling wider online access to collections
1530-1645 IASA General Assembly II (IASA only)
Hamilton House: committee room
1530-1645 ARSC business meeting (ARSC only)
116 Pall Mall
1900-2300 Farewell Dinner
Delegates are cordially invited to the Farewell Dinner (for which there
will be a modest extra charge). 116 Pall Mall is a magnificent regency mansion
designed by John Nash in 1820. There will be a short coach tour of places of
interest near Pall Mall (Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, St James’s Palace,
The Mall, Whitehall, The Houses of Parliament, Westminster Abbey etc.) prior
to the dinner, for those attending.
British Library: Panizzi Room
0930-1700 IASA Executive Board Meeting (closed)
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