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Apologies for cross-posting **************************************************************************** ********** The latest news from the British Universities Film & Video Council is now available: Learning on Screen Conference - York 18-19 March 2008 BUFVC's Learning on Screen 2008 conference and awards ceremony will take place at the National Science Learning Centre, University of York, 18-19 March 2008. The conference will mark the sixtieth anniversary of the BUFVC and will explore the following themes relating to the use of moving image, sound and related media in education and research: www.bufvc.ac.uk/news Luke McKernan moving to the British Library BUFVC's Head of Information, Luke McKernan, is to leave the BUFVC at the end of November to become the first Curator, Moving Images at The British Library. www.bufvc.ac.uk/news BUFVC to work on new project with Scottish Screen Archive The BUFVC is to work with the Scottish Screen Archive, part of the National Library of Scotland, to digitise a collection of archive films for online delivery. www.bufvc.ac.uk/news UK Screen Heritage Network Survey The UK Screen Heritage Network is embarking on a major project, managed by the BUFVC, to identify those institutions in the UK with collections of moving image and screen-related artefacts. www.bufvc.ac.uk/news Future of Screen Heritage in the UK The BUFVC is also involved in a symposium to discuss strategic issues relating to the long-term future of our moving image and screen heritage, taking place on 22 September at Roehampton University. www.bufvc.ac.uk/news Newsfilm Online The Newsfilm Online digitisation project, managed in its ingest phase by the BUFVC, left ITN at the end of March. Since then, data has been delivered to the National Data Centre EDINA for planned delivery under JISC management to the UK higher and further education community from January 2008. www.bufvc.ac.uk/news BUFVC Online Databases Problems may have been experienced by users of some BUFVC online databases recently as we move to upgrade our entire system. www.bufvc.ac.uk/news