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Review of "Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History"
No full textJeannine Keefer provides a review of Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History
The Lantern Slide Collection at the University of Chicago: An Inspired Path to Digitization and Reuse on Chicago's South Side
No full textIn 2009, the Visual Resources Center’s historic collection of lantern slides at the University of Chicago was digitized and donated to artist Theaster Gates. Since then, a public digital collection has been made available online, the physical slides have been a part of several artist projects, and now the collection is permanently housed in the new Stony Island Arts Bank, a cultural venue for the community on the South Side of Chicago
Report on the 2016 Society of Architectural Historians Conference
No full textThe 69th Society of Architectural Historians conference was held April 6-10, 2016 in Pasadena, California. The conference was an international gathering of nearly 800 architectural historians, architects, historic preservationist, information professionals, and commercial partners. In the two days of sessions, 212 scholarly papers were presented. In addition, there were round tables, special interest group meetings, highlighted talks, and two days of tours
Preliminary Findings: A Comparative Study of Subject Metadata in an Images for Teaching Collection
No full textIn this study, art history and classics students were asked to perform descriptive tasks for art images from an Images for Teaching Collection. The descriptive terms that the participants assigned to the images were recorded and compared to the existing descriptive metadata for these images. Correspondence between the existing metadata and the participant-assigned subject terms was analyzed and characterized. Through this comparison, the researcher was able to determine approximate retrieval rates for subject based searching, analyze the types of subject analysis being done by each group, and test, through the use of a variable group, a potential framework for providing visual literacy outreach
Now What?
No full textUsing her experiences at the College for Creative Studies, Marian Lambers challenges visual resources professionals to acknowledge the habits of a new generation of image users, promote department services, aggressively curate, and expand their roles in the educational communities they serve
Content Editors' Transition
No full textThe VRA Bulletin Content Editor discusses the transition from one editor to the next and summarizes this issue's content. She mentions the types of publishing formats currently available, explains how to submit and article, and calls for more contributions
Intellectual Property Rights Committee Call for Copyright Questions
No full textThe VRA Intellectual Property Rights Committee respectfully requests that members of the VR community participate in an effort to determine which areas of the copyright landscape are most challenging to the profession. Survey results will serve as the basis for a 2015 conference session titled: VR Community Questions Answered
Teaching Visual Literacy Skills in a One-Shot Session
No full textJust as one-shot information literacy sessions can be implemented in college classes to improve students’ research capabilities, similarly-styled sessions on image research can increase their visual literacy skills. While most students interact with images daily, capturing photos on their mobile devices, reading picture-heavy articles on websites, and reposting images from social media pages, such activities do not transform them into critical viewers and users of visual media. To be considered visually literate, as defined by the Visual Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education by the Association of College and Research Libraries, an individual must “effectively find, interpret, evaluate, use, and create images and visual media.”
A wide range of research and critical thinking strategies may be introduced through these instructional sessions. Locating trustworthy sources online, evaluating the content and quality of images, scrutinizing manipulated images, understanding the implications of copyright, and creating an effective system to store digital files and manage citations are among the recommended topics for presentation. Teaching strategies for image research sessions include using live web searches in both scholarly and open access resources to highlight their relative strengths and weaknesses, using real life examples of image use scenarios to provide context, and structuring presentations based around the specific class in which it will be taught. The desired outcome of teaching an instructional session is to provide students with the tools and confidence they need to effectively use high-quality visual materials in their undergraduate years and beyond
State of the Association
No full textAs part of the business meeting at the VRA 2012 conference, the president provided a summary of the accomplishments and challenges facing the field in a state of the association presentation. This article provides the transcript
Special Bulletin #4: Selected Topics in Cataloging Asian Art
No full textSelected Topics in Cataloging Asian Art:
1. Cataloging Tips and Techniques
Country Divisions in Asian Slide Collections
Calligraphy and Scripts in Asia
Guidelines for Cataloging Sculpture
Adaptations in Organizing and Cataloging Asian Slides
Working with the Fogg System
2. South Asian Art
Indian Painting
Rajput and Mughal Painting
Ragamalas and Nayikas
Cataloging Examples
Cataloging Tables for Indian Painting and Sculpture
Indian Museum Abbreviations
Life of the Buddha
3. Southeast Asian Art
Burmese Art
Thai Art
Cambodian Art
Cham Art
Indonesian Art
4. Far Eastern Art
Slide Sequences for Far Eastern Painting
A Classification of Japanese Buddhist Art
Japanese-Sanskrit Equivalents
Japanese-Sanskrit Table
Sanskrit-Japanese Table
A Classification of Japanese Ceramics
5. Asian Numerical Tables
Japanese Numerical Table
Pinyin Numerical Tabl