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2005 LITA National Forum to feature Moving Image Collections preconference The 2005 LITA National Forum will be held September 29 - October 2, 2005, at the San Jose (CA) Marriott hotel. "Moving Image COllections" (MIC) will be presented as a preconference to the Forum, beginning the afternoon of September 29 and concluding the morning of September 30. Please see below for a description of the program. Registration for the preconference is $175 for LITA members, $210 for non members. Please see http://www.lita.org/ala/lita/litaevents/litanationalforum2005sanjoseca/2 005forumreg.htm for access to online and print registration options. You need not attend the Forum to register for the MIC preconference. Moving Image Collections Grace Agnew, AUL for Digital Library Systems, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey Jane Johnson, MIC Project Manager, Library of Congress An overview with technical information about Moving Image Collections (MIC: http://mic.loc.gov), a collaboration of the Library of Congress and the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA). MIC integrates a union catalog, archive directory, and informational resources in a portal structure delivering customized information on archival moving images, their preservation, and the images themselves to a number of diverse constituencies. Originally designed to address the crisis in film preservation, MIC now serves a clientele beyond archivists and is poised to explore the leading edge of non-textual indexing, digital rights management, and educational use, all the while continuing to meet the daily needs of archivists by supporting collaborative preservation, access, digitization, education, and metadata initiatives. We are committed to the use of standards-based interoperability protocols to provide an integrated and easy to use portal for digital educational resources. MIC's union catalog incorporates both open-source Z39.50 capabilities and support for the Open Archives Initiative. MIC's extensible format-independent metadata design accommodates searching, export and display in multiple schemas, including MARC21, Dublin Core, MPEG-7, and organizations' own. We are currently testing a mapping utility that allows repositories to map their own schema to the MIC Core Registry of Data Elements to expedite ingest into the MIC Union Catalog. This preconference will explore best practices for describing and preserving moving images and digital video using metadata, as well as MIC's extensible metadata strategy for making digital resources accessible and useful to different audiences. ++++++++++++++++