FALL 2004
Access to Moving Image Collections Syllabus
Instructors: Sarah Ziebell
WEEK 1, 9/13/04: ACCESS OVERVIEW
- The Australian Society of Archivists. Keeping Archives. Second edition.
Port Melbourne, Australia: D W Thorpe, 1993: 273-305.
- Pugh, Mary Jo. Providing Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts.
Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1992: 3-9.
WEEK 2, 9/20/04: INSTITUTIONS AND ACCESS POLICIES
- Bowser, Eileen and John Kuiper, eds. A Handbook for Film Archives. New
York: Garland, 1991: 169-179.
- "Transcript Of Discussion," Cinema Journal XIV: 2 (Winter 1974-75):
47-63
- Uricchio, William. "Archives and Absences," Film History 7 (1995):
256-263.
WEEK 3, 9/27/04: PRESENTATION OF INFORMATION
- Miller, Frederic M. Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts.
Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1990: 19-30.
- “Special Issue: Manual for Access to Film Collections,” Journal
of Film Preservation 53 (1997): 6-41.
WEEK 4, 10/4/04: REFERENCE AND USER SERVICES, PART I
- Olson, Hope A. and John J. Boll. Subject analysis in online catalogs.
Second edition. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001: 265-274.
WEEK 5, 10/11/04: REFERENCE AND USER SERVICES, PART II
- Pugh, Mary Jo. Providing Reference Services for Archives and Manuscripts.
Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1992: 97-104.
- “Research in Moving Image Archives: The Perspective of an Outside
Researcher.” AMIA 1998 Conference Proceedings.
- Thompson, Kristin and David Bordwell. “‘Dear Archivist:’
An Open Letter on Access to Film Collections,” FIAF Bulletin 45 (1992):
38-43.
WEEK 6, 10/18/04: ACCESS PROJECTS, PART I
- Leab Martin, Abigail. "No Longer Reinventing the Wheel but Creatively
Skinning the Cat: The Goals and Purpose of the Association of Moving Image
Archivists' Compendium of Moving Image Cataloging Practice," Film History
13 (2000): 156-173.
- Ziebell, Sarah. “Treasures from the Film Archives’ and
International Film Cataloging Data Exchange,” Journal of Film Preservation
64 (April, 2002): 35-37.
WEEK 8, 11/1/04: PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION RESOURCE DESCRIPTION, PART I
- Miller, Frederic M. Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts.
Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 1990: 3-10, 79-87.
WEEK 10, 11/15/04: PRINCIPLES OF INFORMATION RESOURCE DESCRIPTION, PART
II
- International Federation of Film Archives. Film Cataloging. Brussels:
FIAF, 1979: 67-75.
- Terris, Olwen. “Cataloguing From Secondary Sources,” Journal
of Film Preservation 57 (1998): 28-32
- Terris, Olwen. “There Was This Film About . . . The Case for the
Shotlist,” Journal of Film Preservation 56 (1998): 54-57.
WEEK 12, 11/29/04: INDEXING AND SUBJECT ANALYSIS
- Lancaster, F. W. Indexing and Abstracting in Theory and Practice. Third
edition. London: Facet, 2003: 5-18.
- Lanzi, Elisa. Introduction to Vocabularies: A Guide to Enhancing Access
to Cultural Heritage Information. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Trust,
1998: 8-15.
- Terris, Olwen. What You Don't See and Don't Hear: Subject Indexing Moving
Images. Journal of Film Preservation 62 (Apr 2001): 40-43.
- Yee, Martha, “Subject Access to Moving Image Materials in a MARC-Based
Online Environment” in Toni Petersen and Pat Molholt, eds. Beyond
the Book: Extending MARC for Subject Access. Boston: G.K. Hall & Co.,
1990: 97-116.
WEEK 13, 12/6/04: SOFTWARE
- Olson, Hope A. and John J. Boll. Subject analysis in online catalogs.
Second edition. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 2001: 275-300.