The technical work, new additions and the dissemination activities and visits attended are included.
Menorca
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The Arxiu d’Imatge i So de Menorca (AISM) is a service of the Consell Insular de Menorca that is dedicated to the recovery, custody and dissemination of documentary heritage in images and sounds produced or referring to the island of Menorca. Its purpose as a centre of reference in relation to this type of documentation is oriented towards the search and recovery, as well as in relation to specific technical aspects of archival treatment for this type of material.
Since the beginning of the service, the AISM has increased its activity and tasks. The report corresponding to the year 2023 has just been made public, where the technical work, the new incorporations, the dissemination activities and the visits attended to are all included, which show that it is a lively and active service, which receives many queries and requests for loans and which carries out many and various tasks to continue working towards its objectives of dissemination and conservation of the Menorcan audiovisual heritage collection.
Among the most outstanding tasks of the last year, we can highlight the beginning of the digitisation of the photographer of the diari Menorca, Magda Amorós Alzina, which has meant digitising some 7,500 negatives, slides and photographic positives.
During 2023 the data in the online catalogue has continued to be updated to complete the information offered and to prepare it for the incorporation of the catalogue into the HISPANA repository (Spanish digital heritage access portal). After the necessary technical changes, the catalogue of the Arxiu d’Imatge i So de Menorca can now be consulted through HISPANA, from December 2023.
In terms of dissemination activities, 2023 was the year in which the archive’s new in-house production documentary “Enginy, càmera i acció! Precursors del cinema amateur a Menorca” directed by Magda Timoner and showing the beginnings of amateur cinema on our island, by the hand of the people and entities that promoted and carried it out in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
The Arxiu hosted the exhibition Deus ex Petra, by Carlos Permuy, which received around 300 visitors; the exhibition was completed with a talk by the same photographer on his practice of documentary photography.
This year there was also a very successful activity for children and families: the light painting workshops. These workshops allowed participants to play with light and photography.
Finally, in October, the Spanish photojournalist Gervasio Sánchez visited the Arxiu and gave two talks in Menorca’s secondary schools and two more for the general public, one at the Arxiu itself and the other at the Ciutadella Public Library, both of which were very well attended.
The complete report can be consulted on the AISM website (https://aism.cime.es/documents/documents/9b887fe8-7773-4046-91e3-c362d6c596e3.pdf).