Moving Image Collections: A Window to the World's Moving Images
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Information especially for:
- General Users: Information for students, filmmakers, stock footage users, researchers, collectors, and the general public.
- Archivists: Information for archival professionals about acquiring, managing, preserving, cataloging, and exhibiting moving image collections.
- Science Educators: Information about integrating moving images into science teaching and learning, and links to science videos on the Web.
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What is a portal?
A portal is a Web site offering a broad array of resources and services pertaining to a particular topic or for a particular audience. MIC portals provide searches, displays, and informational resources that are customized for specific audiences.
The MIC Union Catalog and MIC Archive Directory can be searched from any portal by clicking the Collections Explore or Archive Explore links on the MIC task bar.
The information retrieved and displayed in these searches may be customized within a particular portal. For example, Union Catalog searches in the Science Educators Portal are limited to moving images on science topics. Archive Directory searches in the Archivists Portal include in-depth information about organizations’ cataloging and preservation practices.
You can switch between portals at any time by clicking the Switch Portals link on the MIC task bar.
MIC currently offers the following portals:
Information for archival professionals about acquiring, managing, preserving, cataloging and exhibiting moving image collections. Includes technical data and information on standards and specifications, format identification, copyright clearances, asset management and integrated library systems, conferences, continuing education opportunities, and much more. The portal offers three subportals:
Cataloging & Metadata
Preservation
Programming for Exhibition
To promote information-sharing between archives, Archive Explore (MIC Directory) searches in this portal include in-depth information about the preservation and cataloging practices of participating organizations.
Information for students, filmmakers, stock footage users, researchers, collectors and the general public. This portal is a good starting point for exploring the world of moving images. It includes movies and television resources such as film festival listings, DVD sources, research tips, and educational opportunities, as well as information on moving image history and preservation, care and handling of personal video and home movie collections, and more.
Science Educators: Science Goes to the Movies
Information about integrating moving images into science teaching and learning, and links to science videos on the web. To facilitate discovery of moving images useful for science education, Collections Explore (MIC Catalog) searches in this portal are limited to science moving images only.