Description: Seminar, four hours. Day-to-day administration of moving image archives involves complex set of interrelated activities, including donor relations, deposit agreements, and application of copyright law; collection identification and cataloging; storage, conservation, and preservation of moving image materials; budget planning, fundraising, and grant writing; staff training and supervision; programming, education initiatives, and Internet access. Analysis of interrelationship between administrative policies, budgets, human resources, and overall archival goals. Through discussions with working archival professionals, exploration of these essential tasks with particular attention to rapidly changing paradigms brought about by migration of media into digital realm. S/U or letter grading.

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