The BFI National Library and film education in a digital age

2009 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 26-28
Author(s):  
Wendy Earle ◽  
David Sharp
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
National Library ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Film Education

The British Film Institute has always tried to balance its role as a repository of moving image collections and their associated materials with encouraging their study and understanding. This article looks at the increasing opportunities for providing access to material in educational and library contexts, as well as giving an overview of the library.

scholarly journals Film education: Memory and heritage

Comunicar ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 18 (35) ◽  
pp. 25-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michel Clarembeaux
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Collective Memory ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Cultural Dimension ◽  
Audiovisual Media ◽  
Film Education ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Medios De Comunicacion ◽  
Sobre Todo

Film education in the digital age should be based on three closely-related and complementary fundamentals: to see, to analyze and to make films with young people; three basics that must interact and support each other. The concept of creative analysis could be the glue the binds this subject together, making it coherent and efficient for educational purposes. If cinema is an art, it is above all the art of memory, both individual and collective. This article suggests that we can join the pedagogy of film education to the citizen’s desire to perpetuate memory and preserve cultural heritage. The author describes various types of films to prove this hypothesis, and at the same time indicates the economic and cultural dimension of the media. The essay starts with an approach to film education in the digital age. Later, it analyzes certain aspects of films of memory, referring specifically to the typology of standpoints of film-makers and the treatment of their sources. Lastly, there is a reflection on the convergence of the concept of creative analysis, promoted by film education, and the production of videos by young people dedicated to the individual or collective memory. This convergence matches European Union proposals concerning the production and creation of audiovisual media from this viewpoint. La educación para el cine en la era digital debería apoyarse en tres polos complementarios y estrechamente asociados: ver, analizar y hacer películas con jóvenes. Estos tres polos han de potenciarse mutuamente. El concepto de análisis creativo podría ser la argamasa que diera coherencia y eficiencia al dispositivo educativo. Si el cine es un arte, es sobre todo el arte de la memoria, tanto colectiva como individual. Este artículo sugiere que es posible hacer converger la pedagogía de la educación cinematográfica y la voluntad ciudadana de perpetuar la memoria, al tiempo que se protege el patrimonio cultural. El autor propone una serie de películas para ilustrar estos planteamientos, que ponen de relieve la dimensión económica y cultural de los medios de comunicación, respondiendo en esta convergencia a las más recientes directrices de la Unión Europea sobre creación y producción, desde esta perspectiva, de medios audiovisuales. El trabajo se inicia con una aproximación a la educación para el cine en la era digital. Posteriormente se recogen algunas singularidades de las «películas de la memoria», aludiendo concretamente a la tipología de los puntos de vista de los realizadores y al tratamiento de sus fuentes. Por último, se refleja el encuentro entre el concepto de «análisis creativo», fomentado por la educación cinematográfica, y la realización de videogramas hechos por jóvenes y dedicados a la memoria individual o colectiva.

scholarly journals National bibliography in the digital age: international recommendations and domestic experience

Bibliosphere ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 37-43
Author(s):  
N. К. Lelikova
Keyword(s):  
Digital Age ◽  
Modern World ◽  
National Library ◽  
The Creation

The main directions of the development of the national bibliogra-phy in the modern world, the problems of the formation of the system of the national bibliography in Russia, issues related to the current national bibliogra-phy, retrospective national bibliography are presented. The activity of the IFLA Bibliography Section on the regulation of the activity of national bibliographic agencies and the creation of national bibliographic resources is covered. The article describes the activity of the National Bibliographic Agency in Russia (Russian Book Chamber), the National Library of Russia and their role in the creation of a national bibliography in the digital age.

scholarly journals Decolonizing processes in film education

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jyoti Mistry
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Image Sequences ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Film Education ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Research Initiatives ◽  
Different Cultures

This paper considers what decolonizing film education might mean through a series of research initiatives undertaken across different cultures which explore social media platforms for creating moving image sequences. The paper attends to three factors in the current climate of education: the accessibility of the medium, its immediacy in dissemination, and the democratizing effect that these conditions have had on the medium of film. Working with these three conditions in contemporary film education, the case studies described include workshops that aimed to shift the curriculum from film canons to proposing the introduction of concepts. Furthermore, elided histories are explored through site-specific projects that show how decolonial processes allow these histories to be reclaimed in film practice, and for marginal subjectivities to be made visible. Finally, the proposal of decolonial processes seeks to work with creating opportunities for social and historical visibilities. The proposition is to work with film(ed) evidence as material connected to broader social justice issues that are expressed through aesthetic forms closely associated with decolonial processes and described as decolonial aesthesis.

scholarly journals Greek teenagers’ cultural taste and identity expression through a documentary-making project

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Eirini Arnaouti
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
After School ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Film Education ◽  
Teacher Researcher ◽  
Cultural Taste ◽  
Global And Local ◽  
Identity Expression

This article explores a film education project conducted on an extra-curricular after-school basis in a Greek secondary school in Tampouria, Piraeus. A documentary-making project exploring the area around the school was realized by a group of ten 15-year-old students under the supervision of their English teacher/researcher. The following case study explores how aspects of the students’ cultural taste and identity were expressed through this moving image literacy project, carried out in a foreign language. Various forms of data – observation, textual and audiovisual – are analysed within a social semiotic framework. The article seeks to demonstrate how the students’ cultural taste was formed by different kinds of global and local influences, and how aspects of their multifaceted identities were revealed during the documentary-making process, and expressed through the creation of media texts within a context of Greek education.

scholarly journals Introduction, Cuba Conference: Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: E/Merging Reading, Writing, and Research Practices

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Constance Crompton ◽  
Raymond Siemens
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
National Library ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Scholarly Edition ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Books And Reading

The fourth of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) “Birds of a Feather” gatherings took place between December 11 and 14, 2012, and included Cuban academic site visits to the National Library and the Casa de las Américas, one of the most preeminent publishers in Latin America. In addition to exploring opportunities for partnership and collaboration in the Americas through unconference discussions, at the conference, the group shared work centred around the digital scholarly edition through the Birds of a Feather structured presentation and discussion.

On DH in Mexico

2020 ◽  
pp. 253-266
Author(s):  
Héctor Fernández L’Hoeste ◽  
Juan Carlos Rodríguez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Mexico City ◽  
Digital Humanities ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Government Support ◽  
National Library ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The University ◽  
Research Institute

Isabel Galina is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Bibliográficas, a research institute for bibliographic studies at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM. The university is also home to the Biblioteca Nacional, Mexico’s national library. Isabel Galina discusses the emergence of digital humanities and her views on how DH works within this particular structure and related issues to do with understanding national bibliographical collections in the digital age, in particular regarding e-legal deposit and digital preservation. She discusses the difficulties in identifying, selecting, and incorporating born-digital materials. In the interview, Isabel Galina also describes how she got involved in DH, the creation of the Red de Humanidades Digitales (RedHD), and other DH developments in Mexico and Latin America. Finally, the conversation examines university and government support for DH as well as a look at DH works in Mexico in collaboration with other countries, and in particular hosting the international Digital Humanities conference in Mexico City in 2018.

"To those who startle at innovation..."

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Randall
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Publishing ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Electronic Journal ◽  
National Library ◽  
Pubmed Central ◽  
Journal Publishing ◽  
The Public ◽  
Modern System ◽  
Flow Through ◽  
Electronic Access

In these times of electronic journal publishing, adopting a continuous publication model is easy: Open an issue, publish articles electronically as they flow through the pipeline, close an issue. Even print journals offer this quick access to the content, publishing online before issuing the printed publication. The goal is clear: Provide access to the information as soon as possible. These models incorporating quick electronic access offer clear benefits to the community, so it's no wonder the model is so widely adopted. But these models aren't new to the digital age. They're not exclusive to electronic publishing. Almost 200 years ago, at least one journal publisher was facing the same struggle of how to get information to their readers quickly. In the editor's words, from January 1828, "We only ask that those printed sheets which lie from one to thirteen weeks in the printing-office...may appear...half-monthly.... To those wo startle at innovation, we put forth this plain question:—Can there be any objection, that each packet...of this Journal should go forth to those who wish to have it every fifteen days...?" This publication model, familiar as it is, presents its own set of challenges to our modern system. The journal is being digitized as part of a National Library of Medicine (NLM) and Wellcome Library project to digitize NLM's collection and be made available to the public through PubMed Central (https://www.nlm.nih.gov/news/welcome_library_agreement.html). So our challenge now is this: How do we integrate a 200-year-old publication model in current vocabularies when we've re-invented the same model in a different medium?

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