L-120. Introduction to Audiovisual Archives Management - Advance Reading List

• Preliminary Advices

  Our reading list is a list of recommended readings, general resources, and standards of practice. Please read IASA-TC 03, marked as essential (***), and as many of the remaining items as your time and/or interest indicates. It is NOT expected that you read every work on this list.

• History of AV Technology

  Enticknap, Leo. Moving Image Technology. London, UK: Wallflower, 2005.

  Milner, Greg. Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music. New York: Faber and Faber, 2009.

  National Film Preservation Foundation. Film Preservation Guide: The Basics for Archives, Libraries and Museums. San Francisco: National Film Preservation Foundation, 2004.

  Newman, Michael Z. Video Revolutions: On the History of a Medium, New York: Columbia University Press, 2014.

  Thompson, Daniel. Understanding Audio. Boston: Berklee Press. 2005

• AV format identification and conservation

  International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Technical Committee:

  ***IASA-TC 03: The Safeguarding of the Audio Heritage: Ethics, Principles and Preservation Strategy. Version 4, December 2017.

  IASA-TC 04: Guidelines on the Production and Preservation of Digital Audio Objects. Second edition, 2009.

  IASA-TC 05: Handling and Storage of Audio and Video
Carriers, edited by Dietrich Schüller and Albrecht Häfner. First edition, 2014.

  IASA-TC 06: Guidelines for the Preservation of Video Recordings, edited by Carl Fleischhauer and Kevin Bradley. First edition, 2019.

  National Film Preservation Foundation. Film Preservation Guide: The Basics for Archives, Libraries and Museums. San Francisco: National Film Preservation Foundation, 2004.

  Schuller, Dietrich. “Audio and video carriers.” EU Commission Project TAPE, 2008. http://www.tape-online.net/docs/audio_and_video_carriers.pdf

  “Technical Preservation Handbook.” National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. https://www.nfsa.gov.au/preservation/guide/handbook

  Teper, Jennifer et al. “Collection ID Guide.” Preservation Self-Assessment Program. https://psap.library.illinois.edu/collection-id-guide

• Digitization Project Planning

  De Stafano, Paula et al. “Digitizing Video for Long-term Preservation: an RFP Guide and Template.” Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department. New York University Libraries, 2013. https://guides.nyu.edu/ld.php?content_id=24817650

  Lacinak, Christ et al. “Fundamentals of AV Preservation.” Northeast Document Conservation Center, 2017. https://www.nedcc.org/av-textbook

• Copyright and Fair Use

  Bamberger, Robert, and Samuel Brylawski. The state of recorded sound preservation in the United States: a national legacy at risk in the digital age. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2010.

  Besek, June M. Copyright issues relevant to digital preservation and dissemination of pre-1972 commercial sound recordings by libraries and archives. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005.

  Besek, June M. Copyright and related issues relevant to digital preservation and dissemination of unpublished pre-1972 sound recordings by libraries and archives. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2009.

  Besser, Howard et al. “Video at Risk: Strategies for Preserving Commercial Video Collections in Libraries: Section 108 Guidelines.” New York University Libraries, 2012.

  “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries.” Association of Research Libraries, 2012. https://www.arl.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/code-of-best-practices-fair-use.pdf

  Sag, Matthew. “Predicting Fair Use.” Ohio State Law Journal 73, no. 1 (2012): 47–91.

  “Special Issue on Special Collections and Archives in The Digital Age.” Research Library Issues 279 (2012).

  Urban, Jennifer. “How Fair Use Can Help Solve the Orphan Works Problem.” Berkeley Technology Law Journal 27, no. 1379 (2012).