The 14th annual AMIA conference will take place November 10-13, 2004, at the Hyatt Regency hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Among the scheduled panels are:

Digitization’s New Frontier:
Motion and Sound Workshop

Nitrate Film Interest Group Meeting

Reel Thing XIV: Laboratory Technical Symposium

MIC: A Vision for the Future Through Preserving the Past

Life After Elmo:
Options for Film-to-Video Transfer

Fixing the Moment:
Expanded Cinema Screening

Magnetic Tape:
Care and Handling Practices for Extended Usage

Reality Show:
Real World Television Digitizing Projects

Moving Image Archives in the Age of Human Rights

Triage Training:
Tools for Assessing the Condition of Legacy and Master Tapes

A Document Is a Document Is a Document:
Digital Documentation of the Moving Image

Motion Picture Lab Procedures:
A Restoration Case Study

Archiving in the Digital World

High-Efficiency Reformatting:
Balancing Quality and Efficiency

Reality Television:
Preserving Amateur Video

For more information, call AMIA at (323) 463-1500 or visit the organization’s Web site: www.amianet.org.