The University of Illinois Library Launches Audiovisual
Self-Assessment Program
The University Library releases the Audiovisual Self-Assessment Program
(AvSAP) on August 12, 2010. AvSAP is now a fully realized project that
began in May 2007. This assessment tool is funded by the Institute of
Museum and Library Sciences, and is designed to address the needs of
cultural heritage institutions by helping to preserve and maintain the
functionality of their audiovisual materials.
AvSAP is free and accessible to the public, providing a series of
questions designed to collect data about collections and assess the
conditions of audiovisual items. Users may download AvSAP and host it on
their own SQL server, or access it on the web. The goal of this
assessment tool is to help collections managers develop a prioritized
preservation plan for their audiovisual materials, including, but not
limited to audio recordings, films, and videotapes, and to educate
individuals on extending the lives of their collections with the
resources at hand.
The outcome of using AvSAP includes a refined knowledge about developing
an audiovisual preservation plan. This tool ranks audiovisual items in
order of treatment need, providing users with a sense of what items need
the most immediate care; AvSAP ultimately allows faculty and staff
members to make more effective preservation decisions with regard to
their audiovisual materials.
About the developers of AvSAP: The University of Illinois Library
partnered with WILL AM-FM-TV, the Spurlock Museum, University
departments such as the Department of Dance, the Krannert Center for the
Performing Arts, and the Illinois Heritage Association. This
amalgamation of groups served as test-beds and advisors for the AvSAP
project. In conjunction, the Institute of Museum and Library Sciences
(IMLS) supports this project with a generous National Leadership Grant.
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For more information on the Audio-Visual Self Assessment Program visit
the AvSAP website at:
http://www.library.illinois.edu/prescons/avsap/
<http://www.library.uiuc.edu/prescons/services/av_self_assesment_program.html>
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Jennifer Hain Teper
Head, Preservation and Conservation Units
University of Illinois Libraries
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217-244-5689
(Conservation Office)
809 S. Oak Street, 2nd Floor
Champaign, IL 61820
(Preservation Office)
1408 West Gregory Drive, Room 44
Urbana, IL 61801
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