Lisa R. Carter has been the Audio-Visual Archivist at the University
of Kentucky Librariesâ Special Collections and Archives http://www.uky.edu/Libraries/Special/av/ since 1995. She is responsible for an extensive and varied moving image archive that includes state and regional news film and video, independent filmmakers collections, university related materials, as well as sound recordings and historical photographs. Her responsibilities cover all aspects of audio-visual archival work, including the direction and implementation of the archivesâ preservation, access and fundraising activities.

During the past year, she managed a collaborative project with Kentucky Educational Television http://www.ket.org to organize, preserve and digitize their video archives. From 1994-1995, Ms. Carter was the film cataloger at the American Archives of the Factual Film at Iowa State University. Ms. Carter is active in the Association of Moving Image Archivists http://www.amianet.org, having served on their Board of Directors, the Conference Committee, the Local Television Task Force and Strategic Planning Group. She is also a member of the Midwest Archives Conference, Kentucky Council on Archives and Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Ms. Carter consults on a variety of audio-visual projects, most recently managing the development of an infrastructure for the National Television and Video Preservation Foundation http://www.ntvpf.tv.