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The course
MIAS 240: Moving Image Archive Administration
Required in the Moving Image Archive Studies core curriculum
Course objectives included:
•Understand the principles and practical concerns that guide moving image archives’ creation, administration, and institutional growth
•Be able to perform basic strategic assessments, budgeting, and planning for archival programs
•Critically evaluate institutional policies, documents, forms, and projects relative to organizational missions and goals
•Develop or increase competencies in essential supporting functions of the archive, including grant-writing and fundraising, donor relations, and human resources management
•Be familiar with and able to apply community and personal standards for ethical conduct in developing, preserving, and providing access to audiovisual collections
The assignment
Option 1: Curators & Donors: You/your group will become the new owners of a collection of home movies purchased on eBay within the last few weeks. Your project will include, but not be limited to, doing a full condition assessment and detailed inventory of the film(s) in the collection; appraising the collection’s financial and archival value; documenting and, where necessary, researching the provenance and content of the film(s); and researching and executing transfer of the collection to an appropriate institution. You will be asked to collaborate with other students and groups selecting this option and Option 2, below, to develop a workable system such as a database, spreadsheet, or other information management tool to document collections acquired and disposed of during the quarter.
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The materials
All three reels have been digitized with the help of the Center for Home Movies, and are viewable online through the Internet Archive's moving image collection:
http://archive.org/details/MIAS240_reel_2-13-68
http://archive.org/details/MIAS240_reel_2
http://archive.org/details/MIAS240_reel_3
"A box of ghosts...
an unopened box of films or an unwatched reel on its own is simultaneously many things: interesting, boring, important, meaningless, unique, commonplace, etc."
Key outcomes
Amanda Smith
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Amanda Smith
Jovita Dominguez
Meg Weichman
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