ISSUE N° 11 DECEMBER 2009 Newsletter AUDIOVISUAL AND MULTIMEDIA SECTION z Arrivederci Milano! z Contents Nearly 50 people from 29 countries attended the AVMS workshop in Milan, organised in collaboration with CCAAA and IASA. Bruce Royan reports Arrivederci Milano! 1 BY Digital library futures 2 BRUCE ROYAN From the chair 5 On Monday 24th August, the understand and apply basic principles Audiovisual and Multimedia in limited circumstances. AVMS conference photos 6 Section of IFLA held an Nearly fifty people attended, from 29 audiovisual collections training countries worldwide. (Argentina, Bruce Royan moves on 7 workshop, in the Australia, Barbados, historic setting of Belgium, Cambodia, Meet and greet, part 2 8 Radiotelevisione Canada, Egypt, Ethiopia, Italiana (RAI) Finland, France, Milano, sponsored Germany, India, Iran, World Day 2009 Section 10-14 by Memnon Italy, Kenya, Lebanon, Biblioteca Nacional de España 15 Archiving Services, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Memoriav, the Nigeria, Norway, AMIA conference 2009 16 National Library Pakistan, Serbia, of Norway and Slovenia, South Africa, AVMS call for papers 17 UNESCO. Sweden, Switzerland, The workshop was United Kingdom, USA, for librarians in and Zimbabwe) nnn organizations The trainers were top where preservation experts in the field, of audiovisual including: materials and provision of access • Pio Michele Pellizzari (Chair of the to them is not the main IASA Training & Education preoccupation, but who need to Committee, and Director, Swiss Norsk ﯾﺎﻟﻌﺮﺑﻴﺔ English !20 The Guidelines for Afrikaans Italiano Português Français Română ﺍﻟﻌﺮﺏﻳﺔ audiovisual and multimedia materials in Bahasa Melayu Deutsch libraries are now Русский available in 20 languages. Català Kiswahili Српски језик 中國 Here is the list of them. 한국어 Español Just click on the link. Hrvatski Latviešu Valoda IFLA Section on Audiovisual and Multimedia Newsletter • No. 11 • December 2009 • page 1 National Sound Archives) Preservation programme at New (IASA) and was proclaimed by all to • Kurt Deggeller (Convenor of York University) be a great success! CCAAA, and Director, Memoriav: This Workshop was organised by Note: Howard Besser has very kindly the association for the preservation IFLA AVMS, in collaboration with the put up his presentation materials from of the audiovisual heritage of Coordinating Council of Audiovisual this event on the web, for a limited Switzerland) Archives Associations (CCAAA), and time. You can click here to look at • Howard Besser (Professor and the International Association of them, as well as materials from other Director, Moving Image Archive & Sound and Audiovisual Archives talks he has given. Digital library futures “Digital Library Futures: user perspective and institutional strategies” was the theme of an all-day meeting held on Tuesday, 25 August 2009 at the Università degli studi di Milano – Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Here’s a report prepared for the CCAAA and IFLA AVMS. BY MICHAEL J MILLER Introductions and appreciation Session I More than one hundred invited attendees of the The digital library user experience: a Digital Library Futures one-day conference received focus on current user research warm and energetic greetings from the leaders of a This session was chaired by Caroline Brazier, distinguished list of supporting organizations. Elio Associate Director of the British Library and Chair Franzini, Headmaster of the Faculty of Letters and of ICADS. She introduced a distinguished panel Philosophy at Università degli studi di Milano, that spoke on topics ranging from keeping up with highlighted the importance of library discipline and user-centered and user-driven environments to industry efforts in achieving the ultimate goal of developing easily navigable portals for digital helping users gain information for collections. Prof. David Nicholas, Director of the Department of Information Studies personal knowledge. He intoned most and CIBER, University College, accurately that, “…the only safe place Today’s London, stressed that in librarianship, for books is in the mind.” Rosella “the future is now.” He emphasised Caffo delivered a statement of information users how information and companion welcome from Maurizio Fallace, are quick users digital environments are currently Director General for Library Heritage, being defined by users through their Cultural Institutes and Copyright of for whom information use and by the robots and the Italian Ministry for Cultural viewing has crawlers that report and act upon that Heritage and Activities. IFLA use. He also highlighted the President Claudia Lux reminded the replaced reading. information consumerism reality of today, that today’s information users participants that, as “cybrarians” in are quick users for whom “viewing the information society, our primary has replaced reading.” They only focus must be upon organisation and process information in small packets, he noted. With access, and that this commands a global perspective. his guidance, we pondered what trade-offs are made She called the audience’s attention to the work of as we implement digital information strategies. the IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Digital Strategies Daniel Teruggi, INA, Chair of the Europeana User (ICADS) and spoke about the development of Group spoke about the factors of success in the use universal guidelines in the development of digital of digital collections. We must address functional libraries. Finally, Patrice Landry, Chair of IFLA (i.e. structural), non-functional (i.e. results delivery), Professional Committee Advisory Board, reviewed and design (i.e. user friendliness) issues related to usability. Elke Greifeneder, a faculty member in the the agenda for the day. Berlin School of Library and Information Science at Humboldt Universtät zu Berlin emphasised the need IFLA Section on Audiovisual and Multimedia Newsletter • No. 11 • December 2009 • page 2 for refined research methods in analysing digital efforts in China via CALIS (China Academic Library library projects, that most of the published research and Information System), a nationwide academic library to date is flawed, and that the profession must consortium that serves multiple resource-sharing develop its own research expertise. functions including online searching, interlibrary loan, document delivery, and coordinated purchasing and Session II cataloguing, by digitising resources. He also spoke about Digital Library Content: what users want and how a Chinese digital library forum assisted with how they use it collaboration planning. Rossella Caffo, Director of ICCU This session was chaired by Trine Kolderup Flaten, (Institute for the Union Catalogue of Italian Libraries Library Director of the Bergen Public Library, Norway. and Bibliographic Information); Ministry for Cultural Flaten introduced Prof. Einar Rottingen from the Heritage and Activities (MiBAC) in Rome, proudly University of Bergen’s Grieg Academy Department of shared successful digitisation projects developed in Italy Music who spoke about important development concepts and Europe. Interculturale.it, MINERVA, ATHENA, and related to the digital Edvard Grieg Archives in Bergen. MICHAEL, among others, have enabled the Rottingen spoke eloquently about the importance of development of open access standards, interoperability, original manuscripts in musical composition studies, and aggregated access, analysis and other technological demonstrated the valuable information available because guidelines that are models of best practices in the Grieg scores were made available digitally. He also collaborative and cross-institutional digital projects. The demonstrated access to the Grieg scores made available MINERVA working group graciously presented a paper via the Norskesanger digital collection. In his edition of its Handbook on cultural web user interaction. presentation, Rottingen underscored the importance and (2008) to each of the attendees. value of inter-institutional collaborations and teaming with diverse experts from the Part 2 content, service, and technical areas. The After a short break, Ingrid Parent audience then heard from Susan Hazen, The only introduced John Van Oudenaeren, curator of new media and head of the director of the World Digital Library, internet office at the Israel Museum in Library of Congress, Washington. Van Jerusalem. In order to make known various safe place Oudenaeren outlined strategies for achievements, persisting needs, and helpful addressing seven challenges in the features in digital collections and access, for books is current digital information services Hazen took the attendees on a quick digital arena. For the challenge of the ubiquity tour highlighting the achievements of in the mind. of individual and personalised digital various e-cultural environments. These access he suggested meeting users where included the “oldest digital library,” Project they seek, and updating the access Gutenberg,with its bookmarking policies of intellectual property, capabilities, the Europeana portal, which copyright, and privacy. In meeting excels at providing semantic information referral, the economic challenges, he recommended looking toward World Digital Library, with advanced searching public and private funding and partnerships. In functionality, the Internet Archive, with its terrific digital addressing globalization of informational environs, he catalogue of historical library web pages (“The Wayback suggested working collaboratively and building for diverse Machine”). She lamented the Google