NOTICE OF AMIA'S SIXTH ANNUAL CONFERENCE

AMIA will be holding its sixth annual conference in Atlanta, USA, on 3-7 December 1996. The full range of issues involved in collecting, storing, preserving and using archival moving images will be discussed in panels, presentations, workshops and symposia.
There will be sessions on the following topics: national preservation initiatives in the U.S. and Canada, sports libraries and licensing, digital libraries and digital issues for archivists, the use and abuse of moving images, archiving magnetic film sound elements law, coalition building, institutionally-driven cataloguing imperatives, updating standards for cataloguing genre terms, archiving 1996 political campaign footage, developing universal preservation format standards for digital media, reports from the Image Permanence Institute on digital restoration techniques and from Kodak on preservation stocks, a demonstration of nickelodeon-era hand-cranked silent film projectors, and a beginner's guide to getting jobs in film archives.

There will also be the presentation of the annual awards, featuring the AMIA's "Silver Light" career recognition award. For more information and copies of the preliminary conference programme, hotel information and registration forms contact Association of Moving Image Archivists c/o National Center for Film and Video Preservation American Film Institute P.O. Box 27999 2021 N. Western Avenue Los Angeles California 90027 Tel: 213-856 7637 Fax: 213