Association of Moving Image Archivists

09/04/2026

Join us September 30 for Archives & GenAI: Navigating a Changing Landscape, a one-day virtual symposium exploring how archives and related communities are responding. The day opens with a keynote conversation between Brenda Gunn, Associate University Librarian for Special Collections and Preservation at the University of Virginia and SAA President, and Dave Hansen, Executive Director of Authors Alliance, exploring openness, access, responsible use, and trust as generative AI reshapes the archival landscape.

  September 30, 2026 8:00am – 2:00pm (Pacific) Generative AI is changing how archives create, manage, preserve, and provide access to collections. It is also raising new questions about authenticity, copyright, licensing, provenance, and what it means to steward the historical record in an enviro...

09/03/2026

The archive represents the country’s first dedicated national initiative to collect and preserve Belize’s recorded musical history.

Minister of Culture announced the establishment of the country’s first Belize Music Archive and the National Recording Treasures of Belize.

09/02/2026

The next in our Legacy Series: Time Based Correctors. TBCs are workhorses in your analog-to-digital signal chain, and they can have an important impact in the quality of your transfer. https://loom.ly/nvS7kRI

TBCs are workhorses in your analog-to-digital signal chain, and they can have an important impact in the quality of your transfer.

09/02/2026

NARA San Francisco is one of the most comprehensive collections of Pacific archives, which makes it one of the few resources where academics can learn what Hawaiʻi was like during the territorial period. https://loom.ly/u0JxtZM

Native Hawaiian professors Maile Arvin and David Aiona Chang co-author a letter opposing the closure of National Archives at San Francisco.

09/01/2026

For archives, libraries, and cultural heritage organizations, generative AI raise urgent questions about authenticity, rights, access, and the responsible use of archival materials. TAI working groups have designed a toolkit to help archives navigate an evolving landscape

Generative artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how audiovisual materials are created, reused, and interpreted. For archives, libraries, and cultural heritage organizations, these changes raise urgent questions about authenticity, rights, access, and the responsible use of archival materials...

09/01/2026

San Francisco Public Library has expanded an archive that gives users unfettered access to tens of thousands of materials documenting The City’s 250-year history. https://loom.ly/6-hWiUk

DigitalSF provides access to over 80,000 materials, no library card required.

08/31/2026

Rice archive of the unexplained gets its own TV series. The series is hosted by Jeffrey J. Kripal, the J. Newton Rayzor Chair in Philosophy and Religious Thought, who oversees Rice’s Center for the Impossible. https://loom.ly/YrcjdHE

08/29/2026

"Who Will Preserve These? Contemporary Challenges in Preserving Postwar Government-Sponsored Films in Japan"
By Naomi Yamanaga
The Moving Image 24.1/2 (2024): 114-139

https://muse.jhu.edu/article/989870

Although many of Japan's government films are sponsored films, they have not been adequately preserved in government archives that handle official documents to this day. In Japan, under a special commercial practice called the Gen-pan azukarisystem, government-sponsored films have been managed by private film production companies for many years. The reason for this is that the possibility of making continuous reproductions could bring profits to the companies. However, it is not certain that such private companies can continue their business permanently. Once a company goes bankrupt, it suddenly becomes difficult to guarantee access to and preservation of the works. The case of Iwanami Productions, which was established in 1950 and mass-produced sponsored films, provides important insights into the preservation of government films.

08/28/2026

This week's member Screening Room looks at AI and its Role in Managing and Archiving Digital Assets, circa 2017: James Hendler who, along with Tim Berners-Lee and Ora Lassila, created the Semantic Web, refines a vision of how certain approaches in systems engineering can enable massive improvements in productivity via sophisticated and increasingly intelligent algorithms. Look for the link in your inbox.

08/27/2026

Have a TV collection but not sure what to do with it? The Good Practice for TV Archives Management Grid is a simple roadmap that helps you figure out where your collection stands—and what to do next. Start small, use the Grid, and take your next step toward protecting your history.

The Good Practice for TV Archives Management grid is a practical tool designed to help organizations assess the preservation status of their television collections and determine their next steps toward sustainable archival management. Created by the Association of Moving Image Archivists’ News, Do...