Association of Moving Image Archivists

She also hopes to offer a digital archivist apprenticeship. Libraries, universities and organizations with film collection can have large digital archives. ‘It’s a very in-demand job right now,´Levy said.

A new weekly column at Moviefone by critic Marya Gates, recommending films directed by women to watch each week. It'll be one "new release" and one "old release". Here is the first edition: https://buff.ly/2N21OLt

A new partnership between media campus Television City, Academy-Award-winning tech company Magnopus and Holocaust Museum LA will create new and engaging ways for people to learn about the Holocaust virtually. https://buff.ly/3jHJO4N

Thanks to AMIA member extraordinaire Melissa Dollman for sharing this good news. A major effort is getting underway at several universities, tribal museums and libraries around the U.S. to digitize the oral histories of thousands of Native Americans that were collected a half century ago as part of a project initiated by the late philanthropist Doris Duke.

Newly rediscovered footage of the Beach Boys at the San Diego Zoo in 1966, check it out

"Finding the Film Archive: A Comparison between Milan and Canberra in Times of COVID-19" By Victoria Duckett The Moving Image 19.2 (2019): 96-99 https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/movingimage.19.2.0096... This introduction compares the response of two separate and very different international film archives during a period when the coronavirus began to spread globally in early 2020. Through Zoom interviews with Matteo Pavesi, the Director of the Cineteca Italiana in Milan, and Meg Labrum, the General Manager, Collections Branch, at the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra, the article establishes the contextual nature of film archives in their response to this global pandemic. The article outlines a range of different responses to the lockdown situation. It argues that each archive is an agile institution, demonstrating institutional resilience and our collective capacity to care.