The Academy Film Archive, in partnership with the International Documentary Association, has created the IDA/AMPASA Documentary Center. In addition to collecting contemporary and historical documentary films, the IDA/AMPASA Documentary Center will provide access to documentaries for scholars and producers. The Center has several other activities under development: preservation of documentary films, papers and other ephemera surrounding documentary production; a database containing a directory of resources for the study of the documentary at the Academy Library and other institutions; and an outreach database to track documentary film-makers and their work. The documentary collection and its database already contains several hundred recent and historical films (including many Academy Award and IDA Award winners), and will open to the public in the Spring of 1994. Future activities will include programming. One of the first of these special events will be a preservation seminar for documentarians at next year's IDA Congress at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills. For more information, call the Academy Film Archive or the International Documentary Association.