Thanks again to Sarah Stauderman of the Smithsonian Institution Archives for an informative Q&A session on the care of video tape. I wanted to follow-up on funding sources for reformatting video collections. I wasn’t able to confirm that the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) has a current grant program but you can find a list of potential funding sources that was compiled by AASLH at
http://www.aaslh.org/documents/grantopptysforweb_000.pdf
The list at the bottom of the CCAHA site (http://www.ccaha.org/education/videos) is also a good place to start.
The AMIA Web site has useful resources on video tape preservation including:
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions on Video Formats and Preservation
http://www.amianet.org/resources/guides/video_q&a.pdf
Videotape Preservation Fact Sheets
http://www.amianet.org/resources/guides/fact_sheets.pdf
Storage Standards and Guidelines for Film and Videotape
http://www.amianet.org/resources/guides/storage_standards.pdf
Kristen Laise 1 year, 11 months ago.
