IASA 2018 Annual Conference

The National Archives of Israel has developed its collection in 5 years from 40,000 recorded hours to over 100,000 hours of audio-visual material from various sources.  The collection is mostly digitized, catalogued and available on the web site of the National Library of Israel.  The detailed catalogue is in Hebrew but names and subject heading are available in English as well on the main library's catalogue site.

The archive makes an effort to create an in depth cataloguing, however, with the growing number of digital material and digitized material that the archive accessed each year, the catalogue is behind the collection and is not sufficient enough.

Thus, the role of the archivist and subject specialist as mediators became more crucial and more time consuming.  Can we "archive the archivist" and provide knowledge of audiovisual materials in a different way?

The presentation will include a description of the collection and examples of mediating specific repertoires to customers and open the subject for further discussion.