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- Apologies for cross posting - BUFVC REGISTER NOW The Power of the VHS A BUFVC one-day meeting 9 December 2009 • bfi Southbank  The humble VHS is, rightly, regarded as a disposable commodity and not an archive medium, but the recordings on these cassettes are sometimes unique and irreplaceable. Since 1989 UK Universities and Colleges have created sizeable collections of valuable recordings on VHS. Today however many universities need to reduce storage space and are shifting to other AV carrier media such as DVD or Blu-ray – so what is happening to all those VHS cassettes? This meeting will address these urgent issues and will explore: • low-cost digitisation and content transfer from VHS • the creation of a union catalogue for copies of broadcast • results from the recent BUFVC UK national survey of off-air collections • proposal for extension of ‘shared services’ for off-air recording • online access programmes retained in educational establishments under licence The meeting will commence at 10.30 am at BFI Southbank in London and run to 4.30 pm. Lunch will be included and the BUFVC will run its formal Annual General Meeting in parallel for an hour at lunchtime. Register now at http://bufvc.ac.uk/powerofthevhs BUFVC members will receive information regarding the AGM on a separate email. British Universities Film & Video Council 77 Wells Street London W1T 3QJ tel: 020 7393 1500 fax: 020 7393 1555 bufvc.ac.uk moving image and sound, knowledge and access Registration fee: £35 for non-members £25 for BUFVC members includes lunch The BUFVC is a charity (no. 313582) part-funded by HEFCE via the JISC. Please don't reply to this email. It was sent by our automated email service and will not be read by our team members. To unsubscribe from BUFVC Bulletins please reply to [log in to unmask] with 'UNSUBSCRIBE' as the subject. This e-mail (including attachments) and the information it contains are confidential and may be privileged. If you have received this e- mail in error please delete it from your system. Unless you are the intended recipient, you should not copy this e-mail for any purpose, or disclose its contents to any other person. This e-mail may contain personal views which are not the views of the BUFVC unless specifically stated. The BUFVC is not responsible for the completeness or accuracy of this communication as it has been transmitted over a public network. It is the recipient’s responsibility to scan this e-mail and any attachments for viruses.