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Tisch Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program Receives
$192,000 NEH Grant to Support Internships
Grant from NEH Will Support Vital Archiving Initiatives Across
the Country
The National
Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
has awarded a $192,000 grant to the Moving
Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) Program at
NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. The grant will support MIAP
students pursuing internships in libraries, archives, museums,
and heritage organizations around the country.
“Audiovisual records are critical to scholars, teachers, and
researchers in every discipline, particularly in the
humanities,” says
Dan Streible, Director of the NYU MIAP Program. “We can’t
imagine fully understanding, for example, the history of the
nation in the past century without access to film and television
recordings of everything from social movements to domestic
life.” He adds that “saving such recordings and making them
accessible in the digital era, require the special skills our
students acquire. We’re grateful the NEH recognizes the need for
training and deploying archivists, particularly those graduating
from NYU MIAP. This grant will enable our students to apply
their education to the care of important collections throughout
the United States.”
In addition to
vulnerable analog materials -- film, videotapes, and optical
disks -- digital media are also at constant risk of degradation
and even irretrievable loss. File formats and computer operating
systems change rapidly, leading to technological obsolescence.
Only specialized training allows institutions to preserve
moving-image works, yet few university programs are equipped to
provide it. NYU MIAP has emerged as a leader in this field
The MIAP
Master of Arts degree program is a two-year course of study
providing students with an international, comprehensive
education in the theories, methods, and practices of moving
image archiving. Students are exposed to all types and formats
of audiovisual material in a wide variety of collections. MIAP
combines in-depth archival studies with scholarly investigation
into the history, theory, and analysis of media old and new --
all within the humanities-centered Department of Cinema Studies
at NYU Tisch.
Awarded by NEH’s Dsivision
of Preservation and Access,
this grant will fund 24 internships during the next two years.
MIAP students will engage
in substantive work to support collection care and access. Visit here for
more information about MIAP. For more information about NEH,
visit its website. |