Moving Image Collections: A Window to the World's Moving Images
About the Archive Directory
Who is in the MIC Archive Directory?
List your archive in the MIC Directory
MIC Archive Directory term glossaries
Overview
The Archive Directory lists organizations and individuals that collect moving images, including archives, libraries, museums, historical societies, film studios, broadcasting companies, etc. Information for each person or organization includes contact information as well as descriptions of collections, services, and policies for licensing, lending and selling copies of moving images. To search the directory, use Archive Explore.
The MIC Archive Directory plays a very important role in Moving Image Collections. It allows users to locate appropriate collections to search or visit. If the organization's records are in the MIC Union Catalog, information from the Directory will display with materials discovered through the union catalog search. The Directory also provides detailed information about preservation and cataloging practices that will be used to further collaboration, mentoring and research within the community.
The Directory is intended to be a community collaboration enabling tool as much as an information resource, allowing communities to evaluate cataloging and preservation activities in similar organizations, self-identify organizations with common interests to sponsor research and education portals, find mentors, enable active community collaboration, training, and development in areas of mutual interest (cataloging, preservation, programming), etc. It will also enable AMIA and the Library of Congress to identify and target particular training and collaboration needs, emerging trends, etc. to focus community training and support.
The Directory’s LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) database design utilizes a
core registry of data elements.
List your archive in the MIC Directory
If your organization holds archival moving image materials, we welcome and encourage you to
list it in the MIC Archive Directory. Archival materials are those intended to be kept so that they may be available for future generations, regardless of their age at the time of acquisition. Individuals holding moving images may also be listed. Collections can be of any size, and do not have to be accessible to the public. Access policies and restrictions will be clearly displayed to users.