The bfi recently advertised an appointment for a new member of the Board of Governors. The original closing date was extended to 25 June 2012.
Details of the post here.
BFI seeking new governor
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Monthly Archives: June 2012
BFI continues to search for a Director of Education
It appears that the BFI’s search for a Director of Education remains open. The global executive search agency Perrett Laver announced on 1 June 2012 that it is working with the institute to find a suitable candidate.
User response to new BFI library
Are you a HE researcher who will be using the new BFI library regularly now and in the future? If so, bfiwatch would like to hear about your experiences – positive, negative or ambivalent. We are particularly interested in the availability and accessibility of HE research materials at the South Bank site and the progress of the digitisation programme. These are early days for the new library – your response will be invaluable in monitoring its development and value as the premier HE moving image research facility in the UK.
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New BFI library at South Bank
New BFI library June update
BFI Library News June 2012
The new BFI Library is open for business
We are delighted to welcome you to the reopened BFI Library in its exciting brand-new purpose-built home in the heart of London’s cultural quarter, ahead of its formal launch in September.
In just four months, the BFI Library has gone from design concept to a fully-realised modern library offering much greater access and free entry to one of the world’s leading centres of film and television knowledge. It also has a brand new Saturday service, regular longer weekday opening hours and increased digitisation of resources.
The move to the former Gallery space at BFI Southbank allows the Library, for the first time, to develop a single and coherent creative vision across the venue, bringing together the whole BFI offer in one place – from the Mediatheque and programming, to Education and Collections. It also enables us to take full advantage of the huge benefits of opening in time for the busy 2012 summer with the Cultural Olympiad and the Olympics creating an unprecedented focus on the capital.
Almost 30% more of the BFI collections are now accessible on open shelves in the new space and visitors can also access information on the collections from one central database. State of the art digital scanners will make it easier and quicker to carry out research as well as being more environmentally-friendly than traditional photocopiers. Among the first tranche of press cuttings to be made available digitally will be the entire Alfred Hitchcock collection – dating back to the 1930s when the Library originally opened and including up until 2010 – to support the BFI’s far-ranging Genius of Hitchcock Cultural Olympiad programme of restorations, screenings, talks and events. A core ambition of the digitisation programme is to make the entire press cuttings collection available as fully searchable digitised images by September 2012 to tie in with the official launch of the new Library.
We thank all our users for their patience throughout the construction period and during the Library’s four-week closure and we look forward to seeing you in our new home very soon.
Emma Smart, BFI Library Manager
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