FMRT Events at ALA Annual 2025
Below is the FMRT schedule for the 2025 ALA Annual Conference in Philadelphia, PA. Come join us for these exciting programs and events!
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Multimedia Production Discussion Group
Sunday, June 29 | 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM EDT
The Multimedia Production Discussion Group is a forum to discuss the various ways we help our communities create media. This discussion is relevant to multi-type libraries, including public libraries, academic libraries, K-12 institutions and cultural institutions. Topics range from discussion on best practices related to media equipment, software, media capture spaces and staffing support. We also discuss specific project contexts such as how we assist users with the creation of digital story videos, podcasts, music, Virtual/Augmented/Mixed Reality, 3D printing and other forms of non-print media.
Film & Media Round Table Gala (ticketed event)
Sunday, June 29 | 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM EDT
The Film and Media Roundtable’s (FMRT) Gala is a biennial event featuring the best presentations of the arts, science, or technology as those relate to film and media. A showcase of what’s to come, or what has been, for the benefit of public, academic, and special collections librarians who specialize in film and media.
Each Gala is thematic. And the theme for 2025 is Virtual Reality. To explore deeply this nascent strain of media study and practice we will feature presentations from Katerina Girginova of the Annenberg Center, Extended Reality Lab, at the University of Pennsylvania, and Scott Spicer, Head of Media Services at University of Minnesota Libraries.
Join us for a no-host afterparty at Yards Brewing Company – 500 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia PA 19123
FMRT Executive Board Meeting
Monday, June 30 | 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM EDT
FMRT Board Meeting. All members welcome to attend.
FMRT Chair's Program: Scribe Video Center Community Engagement
Monday, June 30 | 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM EDT
Join the Philadelphia Scribe Video Center’s founder Louis Massiah and Humanities Coordinator Dylan Lewis, to learn about their work with community media making and oral history projects such as “Precious Places” and “Power Politics,” the latter covering strategies for Black and Puerto Rican political empowerment in Philadelphia.
Included in the conversation will be Diane D. Turner (Temple University, Curator of Blockson Afro American Collection) and Alberto Pagan-Ramirez (Free Library of Philadelphia, Head of Social Science and History Department, Government Publications & Newspapers and Microfilm Center), with discussion of institutional partnership strategies between libraries and community archives and arts centers.
Since 1982, Scribe has used electronic media to document issues and ideas affecting diverse economic and cultural communities; create media works that comment on the human condition and celebrate cultural diversity. Scribe Video Center facilitates new approaches to visual form and language in an effort to further the aesthetics of video making.
