IMR 665: Management of Audio Visual Records & Archives. Individual Assignment: Article summary / Ikram Sahibullah Zahidi

Article Summary: “Tools and Policies of Preserving Audiovisual Archives”

This paper discussed about the challenges faced by the audiovisual archives all over the world which is the digitization of the archival material such as images and sound. This technological change will be easier to disseminate the information through mass media such as television and radio. The educational user such as university students, lecturers will able to add their information into their course work by referring the materials. Every institution especially educational all over the world has to have the tools to access this new digitized material. The issues that the institution must faced such as the using of internet connection and computerized systems. The information provided in the archival materials are very important to the educational users in the institution. The use of the audiovisual archives is very useful for the research and also future study. The archival institution and the users must face this challenge very thoroughly.