VRA 2001 CONFERENCE IN CHICAGO

From: Ann Whiteside (awhiteside@GSD.HARVARD.EDU)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 08:14:08 CDT

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    <pre> Call for Papers--Sessions VRA Annual Conference Congress Hotel, Chicago February 27 - March 3, 2001

    The 19th annual meeting of the Visual Resources Association will be held at the Congress Hotel, Chicago from February 27 - March 3, 2001.

    Sessions Below is a list of sessions and contact information for the session moderator. If you are interested in participating and presenting a paper, please contact the moderator directly with a written abstract of your paper. Abstracts should be brief statements (3-5 sentences) of the proposed content of the paper and how it relates to the overall subject of the session. Please contact the

    session moderator no later than September 22, 2000. Session I From Cleopatra to the Ohio River Valley: Digitized Imaging Projects from Chicago Museums and Libraries This session features digital projects from museums or libraries in the Chicago area. Speakers will discuss their projects in the context of project management strategies, collaborative opportunities, use of standards and metadata, subject access, and image quality. Contact: Elisa Lanzi, Smith College, <mailto:elanzi@email.smith.edu>, or Leigh Gates, Chicago Art Institute, <mailto:lgates@artic.edu>.

    Session II Haves and Have Nots: Visual Resources Collections in the Digital Age Exploring ways to avoid the apparent trend towards disparity in resource availability and a stratified society of 'Haves' and 'Have Nots' is the goal of this session. It proposes to address digital dilemmas and discuss potential community building activities. Contact: Loy Zimmerman, California State University at Long Beach, mailto:<lzimmer@csulb.edu>, or Maureen Burns, University of California at Irvine, mailto:<maburns@uci.edu>.

    Session III Copyright Compliance in Visual Resources Collections: Strategies and Practical Applications How do academic institutions balance the need for images for teaching while complying with the ambiguous laws of copyright? How are other collections establishing communications with legal counsel, and what are these interactions like? How do museums and commercial galleries deal with requests from visual resources collections? What procedures have different visual resources collections instigated to deal with the tedious and time-consuming task of contacting rights holders, keeping track of records, and complying with the permissions extended? How will these requirements impact future accessions to collections? Contact: Lisa Hawkos, Arizona State University, <mailto:lise.hawkos@asu.edu>, or Heather Seneff, Arizona State University, <mailto:hseneff@asu.edu>.

    Session IV Slide Cataloging: Outside of the Old Canon and Inside the New Canon This session will address issues regarding the cataloging and organization of images that, by their nature, are awkward to incorporate into an existing system. Categories such as Book Arts, Children's Art, Art of the Insane, Numismatics, Advertising/Posters, Theater, and, of course, "Contemporary," represent the growing need in most slide libraries to accommodate works outside the art historical canon. How do the issues of vocabulary control, subject indexing, and "drawer browsing" apply to such categories? Contact: Eileen Fry, Indiana University, <mailto:fryp@indiana.edu>, or Julie Marchenko, Northwestern University, <mailto:j-marchenko@nwu.edu>.

    Session V Wearing Two Hats: The Curator as Web Master How can visual resources curators find a balance between their analog and digital responsibilities or running their facility as well as administering a website? The issue of having to control the physical as well as the virtual space of a collection will be discussed. What should such a site contain? Who should create it? Who should update it? What kind of training is involved? What is the impact on workflow? Staffing? Budget? How has the website impacted the use of the collection? What are the success stories? What lessons have been learned? Contact: Julie Marchenko, Northwestern University, mailto:<j-marchenko@nwu.edu>. 

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Ann Whiteside
Visual Resources Librarian
President, Visual Resources Association
Harvard Design School
48 Quincy St.
Cambridge, MA 02138
mailto:Awhiteside@gsd.harvard.edu

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