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Chapter SAA-UT STUDENT CHAPTER CELEBRATES ARCHIVES WEEK The Society of American Archivists-University of Texas at Austin Student Chapter along with the UT Graduate School of Library and Information Science will celebrate the importance and diversity of international archives with special events during ARCHIVES WEEK, October 9-14, 2000. These free activities on the UT campus will include presentations by guest speakers from around the world on topics of international interest. On Tuesday, October 10 at 7:15pm, J. Mitchell Johnson and Gábor Beszterczey of Abamedia will tell the story behind the making of the PBS documentary, The Red Files, in Welch Hall, 2.246. Abamedia’s work in the former Soviet Union began in 1996 at the invitation of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and led to the creation of the Archive Media Project. Abamedia produced The Red Files using Russian archival collections of photographs and films, audio clips and transcripts held by the Russian State Film and Photo Archives at Krasnogorsk. Krasnogorsk is the major repository of historic documentary images of Russia and the former Soviet Union—many of which have not been viewed by the public within or outside of Russia. The Red Files episodes include “Secret Victories of the KGB,” “Soviet Sports Wars,” “Secret Soviet Moon Mission,” and “Soviet Propaganda.” For more information about The Red Files, please visit http://www.pbs.org/redfiles.index.htm. For more information about this and other ARCHIVES WEEK activities, please contact David B. Gracy, II, Ph.D., Director, The Center for the Cultural Record, Graduate School of Library and Information Science at (512) 471-3892, or Mike Strom, President, SAA-UT Student Chapter at (512) 447-2608. Or visit: www.archivesweek.webprovider.com. ### Go to UT-SAA Web Page This page last updated: 09/28/00 |
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