Imperial
War Museum 
The Imperial War Museum, London (UK)
is pleased to announce that the catalogue
of its Film and Video Archive is among
the collections databases that can now
for the first time be searched over
the IWM website. "Collections On-line"
can be accessed from the main Museum
website - www.iwm.org.uk - or by going
directly to www.iwmcollections.org.uk.
By using a selection tool at the top
right hand corner of the screen, users
have the option of exploring all the
Museum's collections at the same time,
or of concentrating on one in particular.
At this stage, the facility offers
illustrative access across all eight
of the Museum's collections on a number
of pre-selected themes, but only the
catalogues of the Film and Video Archive,
the Sound Archive, and the Department
of Documents have been fully loaded.
Additional collections will be added
later this year.
The FVA's database of approximately
20,000 records incorporates less than
half of the total collection of over
50,000 titles, although it does cover
important components including virtually
the whole of the collection from before
1930.
The Film and Video Archive would
welcome comments, whether positive
or negative, about the searchability
and content of the Collections On-line
database. Please email such comments
to film@iwm.org.uk.
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Roger Smither
Keeper, Film and Photograph Archives
mperial War Museum, Lambeth Road,
London SE1 6HZ, UK
Tel: (UK) 020 7416 5290 (International)
+44 20 7416 5290
Fax: (UK) 020 7416 5299 (International)
+44 20 7416 5299
E-mail: RSmither@iwm.org.uk
Website: www.iwm.org.uk
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