Linda Tadic

Linda Tadic is Executive Director of Audiovisual Archive Network, an independent non-profit digital library and preservation service for historical film, video, and sound collections (http://www.archivenetwork.org). She has over 25 years experience working with and managing audiovisual and digital collections.

Since 2005, she is an adjunct professor in New York University's Moving Image Archiving and Preservation graduate degree program, teaching two core courses: Collection Management, and Access to Moving Image Collections. Ms. Tadic's past positions include Manager of the Digital Library at Home Box Office (HBO), and Director of the Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection at the University of Georgia, one of the largest collections of broadcasting in the United States. She has also worked at Pacific Film Archive and the UCLA Film and Television Archive, and was a cataloging consultant for the National Moving Image Database (NAMID) project at the American Film Institute. She was Director of Operations for ARTstor, a subscription-based digital library of almost 1,000,000 images of art, architecture, and cultural objects with contributions from around the globe.

Ms. Tadic was President of the Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) from 1998-1999. She has been active in AMIA since its founding: she is past chair of its Digital Initiatives Committee and Cataloging Committee, and is co-chair of the Digital Asset Symposium.

Ms. Tadic is co-author of the book Descriptive Metadata for Television: an End-to-End Introduction (Focal Press, 2006), and consults and lectures in the areas of digital asset management, audiovisual and digital preservation, and metadata.

Ms. Tadic is also an independent filmmaker, with screenings at the Museum of Modern Art, Filmforum (Los Angeles), Pacific Film Archive, and the San Francisco Cinematheque.

Education: MLIS, University of California, Berkeley; MFA, University of California, San Diego; BFA, California Institute of the Arts