Date:         Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:17:12 -0500
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Subject:      Audiovisual Self Assessment Program at the University of Illinois
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Greetings. I'm Jimi Jones, the coordinator of the Audiovisual 
Self-Assessment Program (AVSAP) project. Simply stated, the University 
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has received an IMLS grant to create an 
online tool for collections managers to use (for free) to assess the 
preservation needs of their audiovisual materials (film, video, and 
sound). The project has a three year timeline that breaks down as 
follows: the first year (starting now) is research, the second year is 
programming the tool, and the third year is testing the tool, presenting 
about it at professional conferences (AMIA, ARSC, and so on), and 
putting together a scholarly publication about the project and the final 
product. It is our goal to create a tool that can be used by the 
collections managers with any level of audiovisual experience, from 
novice to expert. We've just finished a webpage that will ultimately 
house the final tool. For now we just have a little bit of information 
about the mission statement, timeline, and partners of the project, but 
we intend to add more content as the project gets under way, so please 
bookmark the page and check back periodically. We're open to suggestions 
and feedback, so feel free to contact me. The URL is:

http://www.library.uiuc.edu/prescons/AVSAP.htm

-- 
Jimi Jones
Project Coordinator, 
Audiovisual Self-Assessment Program
Oak Street Library Facility
809 South Oak Street
Champaign, Illinois 61820
vox: (217) 244.9901
fax: (217) 333.2630
http://www.library.uiuc.edu/prescons/AVSAP.htm