IASA's 55th Annual Conference

Iva Horová is a musician, musicologist, and librarian. She has focused on sound documents, particularly their description and digitization, since the start of her career in the Library of the Academy of Performing Arts (AMU) in Prague. She has been involved in national sound archive-related activities since the early 1990s. Beginning in 2014, she became an active participant in the Virtual National Phonothèque and eventually became the coordinator of the portal in 2018. She has authored several articles on the topic of recorded sound preservation and is a co-investigator of the New Phonograph project and several other projects. A collective monograph was published under her name The Establishment of the Czech(oslovak) National Sound Archive: Ideas and Efforts. She is now an independent consultant.