Ausdance fellow
I’ve just finished a week at the National Library of Australia. I’ve been working in the Music and Dance branch of the library and more specifically working with a collection of video material contributed to the Library by Meryl Tankard.
This project has been part of a new Ausdance Fellowship, aimed at assisting dance researchers to visit Canberra and access the collections. Originally Shona Erskine was to spend a fortnight working with Dance Curator Dr Michelle Potter, as a pilot fellowship, but couldn’t continue with the project.
As the National Library doesn’t house dance video materials part of the project has been to begin devising some strategies and proposals for dealing with moving image information. When I’ve finished I’ll post the information I put together for access/development/information! It’s been a great week and i’ve covered a lot of ground – it’s been a little overwhelming. Great to have access to the materials here as well.
You can download the final documents I wrote here:
dance video acquisitions – Word Doc
data sheet demo – Excel spreadsheet
If these are of any use to you please feel free to use them but let me know what you’re doing.
David