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AMIA is a non-profit professional association for the preservation and use of moving image media.

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Last night another round of IMLS grant termination letters were sent out. If, like AMIA, you received notice that your grant has been terminated, the National Council of Nonprofits suggests a checklist of what to do. https://t.co/O35Gfn86y0

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Late Tuesday night grantees in communities across the US, including CAW and AMIA, were notified that their grants had been terminated.

House representatives: https://t.co/sEOyWxVtlR
Senators: https://t.co/VYOORXJ1G7
National Humanities Alliance toolkit: https://t.co/CZqV4KrFxN

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IMLS staff were notified by email about being placed on paid administrative leave for 90 days after a "brief meeting between DOGE staff and IMLS leadership." Employees had to turn in government property, and email accounts were disabled.
https://t.co/bNcNEUokd4

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Reps Dina Titus (NV-01) and Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01) are circulating a letter for House members asking the Administration to reconsider the executive order that guts IMLS. CALL your Representatives to ask them to sign onto the letter by Friday.

https://t.co/eP9AT2qywi

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Call. Write. Advocate. Today.
Find your House representatives: https://t.co/sEOyWxVtlR
Find your senators: https://t.co/VYOORXJ1G7

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Call. Write. Advocate.
Find your House representatives: https://t.co/sEOyWxVtlR
Find your senators: https://t.co/VYOORXJ1G7

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State and university leaders have been working over the past four years to establish the Center for the Study of the U.S. National Guard on the Hattiesburg campus
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The Internet is forever…until it isn’t. The streaming service was pretty transparent about the fact that money is the reason for the change to its archive rules: “The storage of this content is costly,”

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The film Her was set in 2025 and said a lot about AI and society. How much did it get right? https://t.co/ckLS1bRQnP

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This week's Screening Room is a presentation from AMIA's Oral History Committee. The StoryCorps team share their successes and challenges in running such an incredible project. Members should look for the link in your inbox.

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“What’s particularly interesting is that nearly all the students we teach and show this collection to have lived with the internet their whole lives, and this is a look back into the era just before that.”

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Join us on May 7th and discover how The Huntington, a 100+ year-old institution with three vastly different collections and management systems, embarked on its first Digital Asset Management System (DAMS) journey. https://t.co/m3OsnGnxEC

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Call for proposals: A special issue of The Moving Image hopes to celebrate the accomplishments and spotlight priorities and directions for the near- and long-term future of small gauge, amateur, and nontheatrical media preservation. https://t.co/WmriKaIZ8h

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Are you a member of AMIA or APA and interested in potential impacts of Generative AI on archives? Join the AMIA/APA GenAI Interest Group discussion today at 11:00am (Pacific). Check your inbox for the log in link.

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From DAS 2014 is a Conversation about curation in digital archive management. This week's Screening Room is open to everyone - and don't miss DAS 2025 coming up May 7th in New York! https://t.co/1DrRJnwjqF

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Does GenAI require a critical thinking trade-off? "Higher confidence in GenAI is associated with less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking." https://t.co/Bp5omNJZGT

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Are you caught up on The Moving Image? The Borders and Boundaries issue from guest editors Melissa Dollman and Jennifer Jenkins has an AMAZING collection of contributors! Members can use their Project MUSE log in information, or subscribe at https://t.co/gd7hK6QklX

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Shot in Technicolor to best show off the clothes, the film was bound to exhibit what the trade press called ‘feminine appeal’, and there were some incredibly talented women involved in its production both in front of and behind the camera.
https://t.co/9tMrYgXjXr

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From the British Library - Libraries & AI - Opportunities or Threat? Chaired by Timandra Harkness, looing at how AI might become more present in libraries, and how libraries should approach AI if they wish to remain trusted information providers. https://t.co/k1NGRuaWt4

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Celebrate Valentine's Day with Wendy Clarke's Love Tapes (2011) in a new VDB TV program! Archive and Collection Manager, Kristin MacDonough, curated a selection of five excerpts from Clarke's iconic series Love Tapes. https://t.co/r52gO6piFy