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Visual Resources Outreach: Successes and Challenges in a New Role
No full textMore than ever, visual resources are intrinsic to the teaching mission and visual literacy goals of universities. However, in many cases potential users are unaware of how libraries can assist in the implantation and integration of visual resources into curriculum. At the University of New Mexico’s Bunting Visual Resources Library, this challenge was addressed by creating the role of Outreach & Collections Specialist, a position charged with marketing the services and facilities, as well as reaching out to potential new constituents and exploring new methods for collaboration across campus. The author describes her first year in this new position and observes how outreach efforts can best be utilized for academic visual resources libraries
The Archival Appraisal of Slide Collections at Cornell University
No full textThis article discusses several case studies of the archival appraisal and acquisition of slides in the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections at Cornell University. It attempts to elucidate the criteria for assessment and describes the outcome in each of these examples. The case studies represent a range of materials in terms of provenance and subject content, including an institutional collection of art and architecture slides, a set of glass slides documenting the northern sky which was used by the Department of Astronomy, and a faculty collection of slides relating to interior design from the College of Human Ecology.
Acknowledgements:
The authors wish to thank Bonna Boettcher (Director of the Music and Fine Arts Libraries, Cornell), Dianne Dietrich (Physics and Astronomy Librarian, Cornell), and Eileen Keating (College of Human Ecology Records Manager/University Records Manager, Cornell) for their input and feedback
Eulogy to a Slide Library
No full textA short history of the birth and death of a library of slides of artworks within a small liberal arts college
Special Bulletin #13: A Guide to Cataloguing Chinese Art
No full textThis guide is organized using the primary divisions identified in the Fogg cataloguing scheme (medium first, then country, followed by historical period). Major areas include Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, and Arts (or Decorative Arts). Some media are subdivided, as for example are the Arts. These distinctions are made with a numbering system that utilizes a medium code and country code on the first line of the slide label. The second line is reserved for division by an historical period, in which case a number is used, or known artists and sites, in which case cutter numbers are used. The third line of the label is reserved for the subject or object classification. For language-based collections, a guide to standard abbreviations is essential to minimize the amount of space used on the label for the purposes of sorting and filing.
This publication also includes breakdowns of cultural elements such as: Neolithic cultures (including name, location, and time period); types of Neolithic ceramics; and the various periods and dynasties (including dates, location of capitals, and founders)
VRAB Volume 5: Issue 4, 1978
No full textThis issues presents a series of relevant conference reports. There is also a profile of the visual resources library at the University of Michigan, a list of vacant positions, a list of new slide curators, and a selection of professional development and continuing education opportunities for visual resources professionals. There are also updates on a series of in-progress guides as well as a series of slide market news items
Visual Resources Association 2020 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 25, 2020, as an online meeting due to the coronavirus crisis, reviews the state of the organization’s finances, and includes details of the measures the Association is taking to reduce operating and conference expenses to ensure a balanced budget and a financially stable future of the organization
VRAB Volume 36, Issue 2: VRA Twenty-Sixth Annual Conference, Part II
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VRA 26th Annual Conference, Part II
Poster Session 1: Computational Linguistics in Image Access Research
Poster Session 2: Informal to Formal: Managing Personal and Public Collections Using DIVA
Poster Session 3: Capturing the Web
Poster Session 4: Researching Art Historical Information Using the TTC-ATENEA System: Interactivity-Based Approach
IPR Plenary Session: Image Rights: Perspectives from Copyright Owners
Session 1: Free Association: Social Tagging in Online Collections
Session 2: Salt Cellars, Oliphants, and Gems: Preserving Legacy Image Collections
Session 3: Shark Suspended in Formaldehyde: Open Forum on Documenting Contemporary Art
Session 4: Interloping Images: Expanding Access for Those Outside of the Norm
Session 5: Common Threads: Libraries and Visual Resources Collections Merging, Partnering, and Finding New Ways to Work Together
Session 6: Improving Your Image: Marketing Visual Resources Collections
Session 7: Throwing the Cat among the Pigeons: Keeping Visual Resources Positions Viable through the Digital Transition
Session 8: Digital Image Anatomy
Session 9: Digital (Dis)Order: Implementing Professional and Organizational Change
Session 10: Scholarly Communication and Collaboration in the VR World
Session 11: Collaboration and Aggregation: Challenges and Opportunities with Unified Access
Session 12: Architecture and the Built Environment: Special Projects and Cataloging Issues
User Group 1: Madison Digital Image Database (MDID)
User Group 2: VRA Digital Matchmaking
User Group 3: ARTstor
User Group 4: VireoCat
User Group 6: The Transitional Space or Moving On Up: Facilities Planning in the Digital Age
User Group 6: Museum Visual Resources
User Group 7: Image Resource Information System (IRIS)
User Group 8: LUNA Insigh
VRAB Volume 36, Issue 1
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2008 Annual Conference
Current Topics:
Getting Past No: Working Toward a Model of Sharing within the Educational Community
Feature Articles:
A Content Analysis of Visual Resources Collection Web Sites
Collaborative Swiss Posters Project at Carnegie Mellon University
The Year(s) of the Digital Asset
2007 Professional Status Survey: 2008 Final Repor