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International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives

Okay kiddo, have you ever heard of sound and audiovisual archives? They are places where people keep important recordings of sounds and videos. These recordings could be of music, speeches, movies, or anything else that people think is worth keeping.

Now imagine that there are many different sound and audiovisual archives all over the world. They might have lots of different types of recordings and be run by people of different cultures and languages.

The International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives, or IASA for short, is a group of people who work together to make sure all of these archives can share information with each other. They want to make it easy for people in one country to find and use important recordings that are being kept in another country.

To do this, IASA helps to create common rules and standards for how recordings are stored and described. They also provide tools and techniques that archivists can use to make their recordings available to people all over the world.

Overall, the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives helps to make sure that the world's important recordings are preserved, organized, and accessible to everyone who wants to listen or watch them.