Message-Id: <200009141349.GAA02550@dns.ccit.arizona.edu> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 09:46:51 -0400 From: Ann Whiteside <mailto:awhiteside@GSD.HARVARD.EDU> Subject: VRA 2001 CONFERENCE - CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS To: mailto:IMAGELIB@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
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Call for Roundtable Participants
VRA Annual Conference
Congress Hotel, Chicago
February 27March 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.
Roundtables
Below is a list of planned roundtable topics with the discussion leader
listed. If you would like to participate in these panel discussions,
please contact the roundtable leader listed no later than September 22,
2000.
Roundtable I
An Opportunity to Learn about Related Organizations This roundtable will
serve as a brief introduction to related professional organizations such
as the Museum Computer Network, Society of American Archivists/Visual
Materials Section, Art Libraries Society of North
America/Visual Resources Division, and Special Libraries
Association/Museum Arts & Humanities Division.
Contact: Jeanette Mills, University of Washington,
mailto:<jcmills@u.washington.edu>.
Roundtable II
From Candydishes to Cornices: Facilities Planning for Visual Resources
Collections
Discussion will deal with facilities planning and the role of the visual
resources curator in the planning process. Panelists from different
sizes and types of collections will share their planning experience.
Contact: Megan Battey, Middlebury College, <mailto:battey@middlebury.edu>.
Roundtable III
Museum Visual Resources: A Different Set of Issues
This roundtable will address the changing role of the museum slide
collection. With the growing interest/mission of public outreach, some
slide collections have expanded to provide materials for a wider
audience, including K-12; not only are the audiences targeted changing,
but also the types of resources available are growing. These changes
impact various areas: collection development, policy, staff
responsibilities, and management of resources.
Contact: Barbara Furbush, J. Paul Getty Museum, <mailto:bfurbush@getty.edu>, or
Jane
Ferger, Indianapolis Museum of Art, <mailto:Jfergr@ima-art.org>.
Roundtable IV
Islamic Arts Cataloging and Classification
This roundtable will gather together panelists with some authority or
recent experience in various facets of cataloging Islamic arts. The
target audience will be non-area specialists who are called upon to deal
with such visual materials as part of their jobs. Topics will include
authority files, image sources, and cataloging schemes. Fundamental
questions regarding the use of the "Islamic" rubric to represent a vast
historical and geographical span of
artistic production will also be considered.
Contact: David Hogge, Freer and Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institute,
mailto:<hoggeda@asia.si.edu>.
Roundtable V
Coming Out of Isolation: Building Bridges and Networking Within the
Campus
As many cataloging and digitizing projects rise to a new level of
technical, administrative, and financial complexity, new opportunities
to work with such entities as the University Library, the Multi-Media
Center, or Information Sciences, can develop. Contact: Russ Clement,
Northwestern University,
mailto:<r-clement@northwestern.edu>.
Roundtable VI Grant Writing For Digital Conversion
This roundtable would cover general guidelines on writing a successful
proposal; finding grant funding possibilities for smaller organizations
and collectionsthinking creatively, thinking collaboratively;
experiences in managing grant-funded digitization projects; and Q/A on
grantswriting experiences.
Contact: Virginia Kerr, Northwestern University, <mailto:vkerr@nwu.edu>.
Roundtable VII
Visual Resources in the Private/Non-Academic Sector
This roundtable will examine non-academic image collections and the
curators/image managers/librarians who manage them versus
public/academic collections. Discussions would focus on the problems
faced in the private sector, the tools and resources used in managing
these collections, and the ever growing need to develop a bridge between
the private sector and academic groups.
Contact: Liz Edgar, The Teaching Company, <mailto:edgarl@teachco.com>.
Roundtable VIII
A Mandate for Quality: Teaching with Images of Various Media
How does one choose the best visual material for a given visual
resources library and school based on the resources available?
Participants will discuss guidelines and objectives designed to help
make choices. Issues of quality and convenience inherent in different
media and comparisons of technical support necessary to implement and
employ various electronic media successfully will be surveyed. We will
look at ways in which visual resources managers
successfully integrate and manage various media.
Contact: Renate Wiedenhoeft, Saskia Ltd., <mailto:renate@saskia.com>.
-- Ann Whiteside Visual Resources Librarian President, Visual Resources Association Harvard Design School 48 Quincy St. Cambridge, MA 02138 mailto:Awhiteside@gsd.harvard.edu</pre>
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