Message-Id: <mailto:199412061802.MAA08624@library.wustl.edu> Date: Tue, 6 Dec 1994 10:00:46 -0800 From: Linda K Tadic <mailto:ltadic@UCLINK2.BERKELEY.EDU> Subject: Moving images cataloging survey To: Multiple recipients of list IMAGELIB
This invitation to participate in a moving image cataloging practices survey will be printed in the January AMIA newsletter, and will be posted on many listservs. Please pass on to anyone you think might be interested.
MOVING IMAGES CATALOGING SURVEY
The Association of Moving Image Archivists Cataloging and Documentation Committee, in cooperation with the Library of Congress, is beginning preliminary work on revising "Archival Moving Image Materials: a Cataloging Manual." (AMIM) Currently, the manual is largely applicable to feature film cataloging. It is the Committee's hope to revise the manual so that it will be relevant for cataloging all kinds of moving image materials, including unedited footage, television news and broadcast, ephemera, and experimental films and video art. In order to create a useful document, we are asking organizations holding moving image collections to respond to a survey on their cataloging practices with the variety of materials that exist. We also ask respondents to submit cataloging samples that illustrate the problems described in the surveys. We especially encourage non-AMIM users to participate.
If you would like to participate in the survey (we urge everyone to do so!), please check off the appropriate categories below for the kinds of materials you have in your collection. Check off as many categories as are applicable; you will be sent a survey tailored to your responses. If you prefer, you may e-mail this survey to mailto:ltadic@uclink2.berkeley.edu. Just type out your answers to questions one and two, and the categories of moving image materials in your collection. Thank you.
1. Do you use AMIM? yes___ no___ 2. Do you use "Moving Image Materials: Genre Terms?" yes___ no___
Please check off categories that reflect your collection:
FICTIONAL WORKS __ features __ shorts (do not include educational works) __ trailers __ other (describe)
TELEVISION __ news and newsreels (complete programs; newsreels need not be only TV) __ broadcast (include series, specials, etc.) __ educational programs (include children's shows) __ commercials (include political ads and infomercials) __ other (describe)
UNEDITED FOOTAGE __ newsreels __ news (television) __ anthropological/ethnographic footage __ home movies __ performance (dance, music, performance art, etc.) __ documents of events (other than performance) __ historical events __ industrial __ other (describe)
EPHEMERA __ educational, training films, etc. __ other (describe)
PERSONAL WORKS __ experimental/avant-garde films __ video art __ other (describe)
__ DOCUMENTARIES This does not include educational films or television; include features and shorts.
Name: __________________________ Institution: ___________________________________ Address: ___________________________________ ___________________________________ ___________________________________ Telephone: __________________ Fax: __________________ e-mail: __________________
Please mail completed forms to:
Linda Tadic Cataloger Pacific Film Archive 2625 Durant Ave. Berkeley, CA. 94720
Questions? Contact Linda at (510) 642-0366 or mailto:ltadic@uclink2.berkeley.edu