The Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive, also known as IULMIA, is located downstairs of the Wells Library. This department will be holding a two-week workshop with hands-on activities and lectures on all areas of preservation of AV materials. Students will learn and gain skills needed to fully preserve our cultural heritage in film, audio, video, digital and paper formats.

 

Rachel Stoeltje, Director of the IU Libraries Moving Image Archive, came up with this idea through other film archivists. After going to multiple conferences, she found out there was not a class out there for pereserving film. So her and a few of her colleagues put together a curriculum where people from all around the world can participate.

 

IULMIA holds more than 86,000 items spanning nearly 80 years of film and television production, including many rare and last-remaining copies of influential 20th-century films. Students will not only get access to most of these items but have resources to actually preserve them correctly.

Amber Burton, a film archivist at IU, will be teaching one of the classes for the summer school. She will be using a horizontal bench along with other forms to help teach her class.

This archive is a member of the distinguished International Federation of Film Archives (FAIF), the leading association for film preservation. Of the 89 members UCLA FILM & TELEVISION ARCHIVE, SOUTH AFRICAN NATIONAL FILM, VIDEO AND SOUND ARCHIVES, CHINA FILM ARCHIVE are among the top in the world.

To keep up to date with the summer school starting May 13, 2019, visit their Facebook page at Indiana University Libraries Moving Image Archive.