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Access Committee
The Access Committee supports moving image archivists to provide all
reasonable and responsible forms of access to their collections. The
Access Committee coordinates information and professional activities,
establishes guidelines and standards, and acts in an advocacy role
relating to issues to access. The Access Committee works with other
committees and working groups of AMIA to accomplish this goal.
Awards Committee
The Awards Committee is responsible for soliciting and receiving from
the AMIA membership on an annual basis the names of suitable candidates
to receive AMIA's Silver Light Award, Dan & Kathy Leab Award, and
Maryann Gomes Award. The Awards Committee receives and considers recommendations
from the membership as part of the process of preparing a list of nominees
for the awards. The Committee presents its nominations to the AMIA Board
of Directors, which selects the final recipient of each award.
Cataloging and Metadata Committee
In order to serve the archival moving image community, the Cataloging
Committee shall be a forum for discussion of cataloging issues. In the
course of its work, the Committee shall facilitate the exchange of information
through programs and publications, promote the use of existing national
standards for the cataloging of archival moving image materials, advise
the appropriate standard making bodies on cataloging standards and issues,
create new cataloging standards, provide education and information on
cataloging practices, and establish liaisons with related organizations.
Conference Committee
The Conference Committee is responsible
for developing the content of each year's conference as well as for the
planning and execution of the annual event. The Conference Committee
is also responsible for long-term conference planning and coordination.
Development Committee
The AMIA Development Committee is dedicated to strengthening AMIA fiscally
and encouraging its growth. The focus of the committee is twofold: fundraising
(sponsorship/vendor exhibition) and membership development.
Digital Initiaties Committee
The Digital Initiatives Committee is a mechanism for identifying key
issues, contributing expertise, and implementing special projects that
lead to recommended practices for digital concerns that impact the archival
moving image and audio field. It works closely with the AMIA Preservation,
Access, Cataloging and Documentation, and Education Committees, and with
other relevant AMIA committees and groups to achieve these goals. The
Digital Initiatives Committee shall inform the AMIA membership of developments
in digital technology, preservation, access, and metadata through publications,
projects, workshops, conference sessions, and recommended practices.
It will represent its constituents' concerns to related organizations
through active liaison relationships.
Education Committee
The AMIA Education Committee believes that the education and training
of moving image archivists is not only central to AMIA's role as a professional
association, but essential to the long-term survival of our moving image
heritage. To this end, the Education Committee promotes, designs, supports,
and implements educational programs, projects, and services that: Contribute
to the continuing education and training of working archivists; and Facilitate
the education and training of students who wish to pursue careers in
moving image archive management.
Elections Committee
The AMIA Elections Committee has primary responsibility for conducting
AMIA's annual election process, which it carries out in accordance with
the policies and requirements of the association's Bylaws. Each year,
the Committee announces the elections schedule, solicits recommendations
of candidates for Association-wide offices which are up for election,
nominates slates of candidates for these offices, receives and counts
the ballots mailed back by Individual Members, and notifies the candidates
and the membership of the election results. The Committee also oversee
any internal elections within AMIA's Committees of the Membership to
help insure that they occur in a timely and appropriate manner.
Membership Committee
The Membership Committee is focused
on the development of the Association’s human resources by identifying
and recommending strategies for meeting the needs of its members, effective
use and development of active volunteer efforts, retention of members
and leaders, and facilitating the membership-driven tradition that sets
AMIA apart from other associations. The Committee works toward a long-term
objective of developing a strong and deep volunteer base and effectively
preparing volunteers to lead.
Preservation Committee
To be guards on the preservation enablers' watchtower. Who seek out trends,
enablers and threats, to be understood, evaluated and reported on in
a critical manner. Seeking out leading experts, thinkers and innovators,
to find solutions that are sustainable and that make sense from a long-term
preservation perspective. Developing ways to use, re-use and re-purpose
archival treasures and to provide access to the results thereof. To demystify
the archival enabling technologies involved.
Projection & Preservation Sub-Committee
The Projection & Preservation Sub-Committee of the Access
Committee exists
to represent and advise the membership and the wider archival community
on technical issues related to theatrical and other forms of public
presentation of archival moving image media. Working within the broader
scope of the Access Committee, we seek to promote high quality technical
presentation by, for example, helping theatres project obsolete picture
and sound formats correctly, encouraging non-theatrical and temporary
venues (e.g. museums and galleries) to present material in a way which
upholds the technical integrity of the original and advocating proper
support for archival media in new technologies and standards as they
are developed (e.g. digital cinema).
Publications Committee
The goal of the AMIA Publication Committee is to coordinate and direct
publications including: AMIA's journal The Moving Image, the AMIA Newsletter,
the AMIA website, and various special publications. The intention of
the committee is to serve the AMIA membership, the archival moving image
community, and the public at large.
Volunteer Expansion Subcommittee
The Volunteer Expansion Subcommittee contributes to the long-term objective
of developing a strong and deep volunteer base and effectively preparing
volunteers to lead. The VES shall address current pressing issues of
succession planning, leadership development and training. The VES will
lay the groundwork for the development of current members into active
volunteers and the management of an effective volunteer infrastructure.
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