2014 Tips for Session Chairs (pdf) BEFORE THE SESSION Contact Your Speakers Before the conference contact your speakers to ask them if they have any questions about their presentation. Make sure your speakers know the date and time of their presentation. Ask them to give you a short biography with the relevant curriculum vitae material so that you can introduce them properly. Be Prepared It is assumed that the session chairperson is familiar...

AMIA will host its first ever hack day on November 6, 2013 in Richmond, VA. The event will be a unique opportunity for practitioners and managers of digital audiovisual collections to join with developers and engineers for an intense day of collaboration to develop solutions for digital audiovisual preservation and access. It will be fun and practical…and there will be prizes! This year’s hack day is a partnership between AMIA and the...

  Updated October 10, 2013 Please note – times and sessions subject to change Download the Program   Tuesday . November 5, 2013 8:00am – 5:30pm | Requires Separate Registration Tour: Packard Campus of the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center 8:30am – 12:30pm | Capital | Requires Separate Registration A/V Tech Basics for Archivists Speaker: Eric Wenocur, Lab Tech Systems Audio and video equipment is complex and specialized. There are...

Thank you for serving as a Session Chair for the 2013 Annual Conference! Much of the success of the conference rests on the efficient and consistent execution of our presentations, workshops and sessions. We know that a well-prepared Session Chair can help ensure that the speakers give high quality, trouble-free talks and that the audience appreciates the entire session.  Your program coordinator is available to guide you through the logistics,...

The Preliminary Conference Program is available for download –  download the 2013 Preliminary Program here, or click here to see it online. There is a lot of special programming this year – here’s a sample: The Daily Plenary and Continental Breakfast The daily plenaries will feature sessions that provide big picture perspectives, innovative insights, and broad outlooks on current issues of interest to the entire audience....