Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists

by Anthony Cocciolo

Moving Image and Sound Collections for Archivists by Anthony Cocciolo is for every archivist (or archivist in training) who has unearthed some carrier of moving image and sound and wondered what to do. Combining best practices with guidance for specific media formats, Cocciolo applies concepts of appraisal, description, and accessioning to audiovisual collections, providing a solid grounding for archivists in environments where resources for description, digitization, and storage are scarce.

Genres: Nonfiction, Film

218 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Ashley (Red-Haired Ash Reads) · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very informative book. The first few chapters discuss problems every archivist needs to consider when it comes to AV materials, such as storage, copyright, and access. While this is standard in most texts about the archival process, it was still informative because he goes into more technical aspects of some of these, such as storage systems like RAID.

When it comes to the identification of analog and digital materials, there was a lot of information for the main types of AV materials that are likely to be found in an archive. Rare formats will need other resources to identify and preserve. Information is provided on the best ways to preserve and provide access to these AV materials.

Overall, this was informative and a great resource for archivists. I will refer to this in the future, especially when it comes to identifying the best way to convert formats for preservation.