Sent: Monday, June 23, 2003 8:21 PM
Subject: 1st Caribbean AV Archiving Conference
Colleagues: Greetings
Attached is the first announcement for the Audiovisual Archiving: Our National Heritable an History Conference, CAVIC 2003 which will be held in Kingston Jamaica at the Knutsford Court Hotel, November 4 - 9, 2003. The conference is being sponsored by The Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation (Barbados), FIAT/IFTA (International Federation of Television Archives, The National Library of Jamaica and UNESCO.
The conference will consist of plenary sessions, workshops and opportunities for one-on-one discussions. A range of issues related to AV archiving in the Caribbean will be presented by a group of regional and international experts. The primary audience for this exciting conference will be archivists, librarians and other information facilitators, cultural researchers and historians, newspaper librarians, photographers and others working with photographic media, employees of Government Information Services, TV stations and radio stations and their libraries and other persons who are involved in any way with non-print materials which are used to store and disseminate information.
Attached is an overview of the programme, a conference registration form, a hotel registration form and a short questionnaire to solicit information to help us with planning the basic workshop on AV archiving.
The organizers would be most grateful if you would share this information with as many colleagues as possible, both at home and outside of your country, whom you think would be interested in attending this most important and exciting conference. Contact names and details are included on many of the forms attached. However for your easy reference my email is [log in to unmask] Please feel to contact me should you have any questions.
Additional information will be soon available on the FIAT/IFTA web site. Best wishes and we look forward to seeing many of you and your colleagues at CAVIC 2003 in Kingston during the first week in November. Elizabeth
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