Sponsorship Opportunities

 

1. GENERAL CONFERENCE SUPPORT, Up to $500: (designated & undesignated)
2. SESSION OR WORKSHOP SUPPORT, $500 & up: list below
3. SPECIAL EVENT SPONSORSHIP, $1,000 & up: list below
4. CONFERENCE ADVERTISING, $125- $475 (b/w and color ads)
5. CONFERENCE EXHIBIT HALL, $325 (basic fee)

Categories of Support

1. GENERAL CONFERENCE SUPPORT, Up to $500:
    Undesignated contribution toward general conference costs & to encourage attendance

Designated sponsorship opportunities include:
   Audio Visual Equipment (digital projectors, microphones/sound system, DSL)
   Donation to 24 * VRAffle (Raffle items)
   Exhibits Hall Coffee Breaks ($250 & up)
   VRAffle Reception
   Luraine Tansey Education Fund
   President’s Fund

Recognition: Listing in Conference Program as a sponsor, Corporate logo featured on VRA conference web site through the end of the conference on March 10, 2006 from the date that both the donation and electronic logo are received by Jane Darcovich at darcovic@uic.edu or Liz Hernandez at lehernandez@cox.net

2. SESSION, SEMINAR OR WORKSHOP SUPPORT, $500 & up:
    Descriptive program information at http://www.vraweb.org/2006ConferenceBaltimore.html/

   Program List includes:

   Sessions:
   Session 01: Mission and Metamorphosis: Changing approaches to sharing images and information online
   Session 02: Doing Big Things at Small Schools: VR Professionals Leading the Digital Transition
   Session 03: Shared Cataloguing for Images: Fantasy or Reality
   Session 04: DAMS Right! Using MDID for Managing Metadata and Sharing Collections
   Session 05: Cross-Campus Collaboration in Building Digital Image Collections: Strategies Challenges, and Benefits
   Session 06: The Cutting Edge: Visual Resources and the New Research Frontier
   Session 07: New Challenges for Image Professionals in Small Institutions: Strategies For Converting Archival  Collections in Scholarly                                            Information on the Web
   Session 08: Thinking Outside of Boundaries: New Perspectives for New Participants
   Session 09: Herding Cats: VRA Core, CCO, and XML

   Seminars:
   Seminar 01: Managing an Internship Program: Ideas and Strategies
   Seminar 02: Computational Linguistics for Metadata Building (CLiMB)-Using CLiMB-2 at the Univ. of Maryland
   Seminar 03: Almagest, a new open source database and presentation program
   Seminar 04: Using Digital Images in a Copyrighted World
   Seminar 05: CCO Train the Trainer Session (by prior acceptance)
   Seminar 06: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t: The Changing Roles of the Visual Resources Curator

   Ask the Expert Corner. Daily one-on-one problem-solving type sessions.

  Workshops:
  Workshop 01: Cataloguing Cultural Objects: Practical Applications, ½ day
  Workshop 02: Copyright Law, Image Policies, and Guidelines for VR Collections, ½ day
  Workshop 03: XML, the VRA Core, and the Image Collection, ½ day
  Workshop 04: Cataloguing Medieval Art, ½ day
  Workshop 05: Educating the Educators: Teaching Faculty to Teach with Digital Images, ½ day
  Workshop 06: Introduction to Development, or How to Feel Good About an Uncomfortable Subject, 2 hours
  Workshop 07: Digital Copystand for Dummies: A Real Life Workshop for the Rest of Us!, ½ day
  Workshop 08: The Who, What, and When of Strategic Planning, ½ day

Recognition: Same as #1, plus: Sponsorship statement accompanies session or workshop in conference publications and materials, on session signage & in conference information on the web. Moderator’s introduction recognition statement

3. SPECIAL EVENT SPONSORSHIP, $1,000 & up, depending on cost of event; see list below:
    Special Events:
           VRA Members’ Reception: estimate: $4000
           First-time Attendees’ and New Members’ Breakfast: estimate: $1500
           VRA Leadership Luncheon: estimate $1200
           Refreshments before the VRAffle: estimate $1000

Recognition:
Same as #1, plus: Full naming of the event, which will appear in all conference publications and material, on session signage and in conference information on the web.
Individual introduction in preliminary remarks at event

4. ADVERTISING ($125-$475, accepted only until February 11, 2006)

Advertising rates:
     $475 color/ $400 bw    Back cover/full page
     $375 color/ $300 bw    Inside cover/full page
     $225 color/ $175 bw    Inside cover/half page
     $275 color/ $200 bw    Interior/full page
     $175 color/ $125 bw    Interior/half page

Please contact Chris Hilker at chilker@comp.uark.edu if you are interested in advertising.