AVP Holiday Card – 2006

Artwork by Stephanie Housley from Coral & Tusk

The Ampex VR-1000 Quadruplex Videotape Recorder has been illustrated on the front of the card in commemoration of videotape’s 50th anniversary. We can thank the Ampex VR-1000 for breathing life into videotape as we know it today (warts and all!) by being the first commercially available videotape recorder back in 1956. The VR-1000 was also responsible for making history on November 30, 1956 when it reproduced CBS’s recording of “Douglas Edwards and the News”. This event granted the public its first look at a television broadcast using videotape.

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AVPS Represents AMIA And AES At National Recording Preservation Board Hearing

Chris Lacinak of AudioVisual Preservation Solutions (AVPS) was honored and privileged to receive a request from the Association of Moving Image Archivist (AMIA) Executive Director , Keith LaQua and President, Janice Simpson to represent the AMIA community at the New York Hearing of the National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) held on December 19th , 2006. The hearing was attended by a broad range of experts filled with passion on the topic of the preservation of recorded sound.

As a co-chair of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Technical Committee on Archiving, Restoration and Digital Libraries, Chris also represented the AES community at the hearing.

The National Recording Preservation Board (NRPB) was formed through a mandate of the National Recording Preservation Act of 2000. The Librarian of Congress, in consultation with the National Recording Preservation Board, is conducting a study on the current state of recorded sound preservation and restoration in the United States. The NRPB’s activities in this area will be compiled into a report for the Librarian of Congress to raise awareness and inform policy affecting our cultural heritage.

More information can be found at the website below.
www.loc.gov/rr/record/nrpb/nrpb-clir.html

AVPS Recognized In The Image Permanence Institute’s Magnetic Media Study Report Funded By The National Endowment For The Humanities (NEH)

AVPS was honored to collaborate with the stellar team at the Image Permanence Institute (IPI) on their Magnetic Media Study. This study aims to find correlative and causal relationships between detectable degradation mechanisms and quality of reproduction. In finding such relationships, tools can be created similar to the IPI Acid Detection Strip, which will detect a known indicator of failure.

AVPS was proud to be asked to share our experience and knowledge on the matter of assessment and we are thankful to the Image Permanence Institute for the opportunity to work together. You can view the special thanks to AVPS, and more importantly the full report from the study in the coming months.

For more on IPI contributions to Magnetic Media Preservation, you can visit their website below.
http://www.imagepermanenceinstitute.org/shtml_sub/pr_magnetic.asp