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Can You Dig It? Diamonds in Your Own Blackyard: Excavating and Preserving Audiovisual Gems Within the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company Records
No full textUCLA Library Special Collections is home to the records of the Golden State Mutual (GSM) Life Insurance Company, one of the first Black-owned and operated insurance companies in the country. Among the company’s rich documentation exists a large selection of audiovisual materials that tell a story of African American entrepreneurship and Los Angeles history, and which have recently started being digitized to be made available online through generous grant funding from the National Film Preservation Foundation and the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Visual Resources Association 2019 Annual Business Meeting: Treasurer’s Report
No full textThe Treasurer’s Report, presented at the Annual Business Meeting of the Visual Resources Association, held March 27, 2019 in Los Angeles, California, reviews the state of the organization’s finances, and includes details of the measures the Association is taking to reduce operating and conference expenses and to increase investment income
Visual Resources Association Constitution and Bylaws
No full textThis revised Constitution and Bylaws of the Visual Resources Association is the result of a year-long review of the previous documents carried out by the Constitution and Bylaws Review Task Force, according to a process conducted every five years. The Task Force was Co-Chaired by VRA President Stephen Patton and Allan T. Kohl; other Task Force members included Lael Ensor-Bennett, Marcia Focht, and Heidi Rempel. The revised Constitution and Bylaws were ratified by vote of the membership, and took effect upon confirmation of the vote by the VRA Executive Board on December 3, 2018
Review of Steven J. Miller's "Metadata for Digital Collections"
No full textIn eleven chapters, Metadata for Digital Collections by Steven J. Miller provides an accessible and practical how-to-do-it metadata manual. This review explores the book's content with an emphasis on how useful it might be to serve as a reference work in visual resources collections. The book is well-organized and clearly written with extensive illustrations and examples making it easy to find information quickly and focus on specific concepts. The reviewer suggests visual resources professionals consider sharing the other resources that they are currently finding most useful through additional book reviews
Visual Resources Association 2017 Annual Business Meeting: Treasurer's Report
No full textThe Treasurer's Report, presented at the Annual Business Meeting of the Visual Resources Association, held March 30, 2017 in Louisville, Kentucky, reviews the state of the organization's finances, and includes a summary of long-range economic trends affecting the Association's budget and membership numbers over the past decade, together with details of the measures the Association is taking to reduce operating expenses. Also noted is the effect of current economic conditions on our investment strategy
Life Story: Creating Metadata for the Portrait File
No full textThe Print Collection Portrait File encompasses 71,557 portrait and biographical images of notable figures in American, British, and European history from ancient times to early 20th century, and is the largest digital image collection at the New York Public Library. The metadata creation practice for the Portrait File evolved in its approach over its long digitization history that spanned more than ten years, many metadata creators, one database migration, and the formation in 2013 of NYPL’s Metadata Services Unit, which oversees metadata creation across the institution. This article demonstrates that metadata creation is an ongoing process, and explores enhancements that might be made to the metadata for Portrait File items in the future.
Acknowledgements:
Zoe wishes to acknowledge her colleagues at NYPL past and present, and thank Griselda Steiner and Barbara Elam for their editorial contributions to this article
Digital Humanities and the Visual: A Special Themed Issue of the Visual Resources Association Bulletin
No full textIntroductory comments from the editors to a special, guest-edited issue on the digital humanities and the visual
Report on CAVRACON 2015
No full textThis past June the third California Visual Resources Association Conference was held at the University of California, Santa Barbara. With this third iteration CAVRACON truly matured into an offering of exceptionally strong content, presented by diverse speakers. It represented collaboration at its best, resulting in presentations of great interest and value, and enhanced networking opportunities. This report summarizes the program and content, and remarks on the evolution of this institution in its three short cycles
Who's Afraid of the Big, Bad Uktena Monster? Subject Cataloging for Images
No full textThis article describes the difference between cataloging images and cataloging books, the obstacles to including subject data in image cataloging records and how these obstacles can be overcome to make image collections more accessible. I call for participants to help create a subject authority reference resource for non-Western art. This article is an expanded and revised version of a presentation for the 2016 Joint ARLIS/VRA conference in Seattle
Visual Resources Association 2014 Annual Business Meeting: Treasurer's Report
No full textThe Treasurer's Report, presented at the Annual Business Meeting of the Visual Resources Association, held March 14, 2014 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, reviews the state of the organization's finances, and includes a summary of economic trends affecting the Association's budget and membership numbers over the past decade, along with a review of the Association's investment policy and portfolio performance