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DATE: Wednesday June 21, 2023 at 2pm CT
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PRESENTER: Siobhan Hagan
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<a href="https://event.webinarjam.com/register/94/n17pnu10"><strong>REGISTER FOR WEBINAR HERE</strong></a>
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<em>*Webinar will be recorded. All registrants will receive the link to the recording*</em>
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DESCRIPTION:
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The Smithsonian Libraries and Archives’ (SLA) Audiovisual Media Preservation Initiative (AVMPI) is a centralized resource that supports the overall need for individual Smithsonian Institution (SI) units to catalog, preserve, and provide access to their audio, video, and film collections. At the current rate of preservation, the Smithsonian is facing an estimated loss of 190,000 audiovisual assets by 2034. To help stem the tide of irreparable loss, generous funding from the National Collections Program is enabling AVMPI to build out internal preservation transfer capacity, as well as to send out the most at-risk items to external preservation vendors. There will be several AVMPI transfer suites built across SI units, with specialists hired to stabilize, describe, and transfer the Institution’s audiovisual collections. In this presentation, the AVMPI Coordinator will discuss how AVMPI developed the facilities and workflows for these transfer stations, along with AVMPI plans to become an audiovisual preservation educational and research resource for those outside of and beyond the Smithsonian.
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WEBINAR AGENDA:
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Participants will learn about the best practices and standards for audiovisual media preservation and see it applied practically at the world's largest museum, education, and research complex. Attendees will also learn about the history of the Smithsonian Institution's audiovisual collections across the organization's 22 units, along with collections' preservation and access.
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ADDITIONAL WEBINARS: <a href="https://preservethis.org/p/webinars">https://preservethis.org/p/webinars</a>
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