Thursday, March 9, 2006
2:00pm – 5:30pm
Fee: $55.

Workshop 4: Cataloging Medieval Art
Sponsored by the VRA Education Committee

This is the first in what is proposed to be a series of workshops on difficult to catalog areas in drawing on talent and collections in the host city of the VRA Conference. The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore has a very strong collection of Medieval art, and a number of curators associated with the Walters willing to participate in instructing the workshop. The workshop will provide an overview of the medieval period and art, discussion of current scholarship, the accuracy and usefulness of the period and style entries in standard Authorities such as the AAT and others. There will also be a discussion of using CCO and cataloguing Medieval art.

Instructors:
Dr. Lynn Ransom, University of Pennsylvania
Dr. Griffith Mann, Walters Art Museum
Laura Uhlman, Free Library of Philadelphia
Benjamin Kessler, Visual Resources Professional

Thursday, March 9, 2006
2:00pm – 5:30pm
Fee: $55.

Workshop 5: Educating the Educators: Teaching Faculty to Teach with Digital Images
Sponsored by the VRA Education Committee

This workshop will focus on various methods and techniques for teaching the patrons of visual resources collections how to use digital image presentation software in the classroom. As we continue the transition from analog to digital technologies, the presentation component may be both the most useful, and the most daunting, to our patrons. Strategies for interesting patrons in new technologies, providing users with the information they need to consider what works best for their pedagogical Purposes, and how the most popular softwares accomplish particular teaching goals will be addressed through this workshop. Among the tools to be examined will be Microsoft's PowerPoint, ARTstor's Offline Image Viewer, Luna's Insight presentation module, Princeton's Almagest, and the MDID from James Madison University.

Instructors:
Eileen Fry, Indiana University/Bloomington, PowerPoint
Trudy Jacoby, Princeton University, Almagest
Jeanette Mills, University of Washington/Seattle, MDID
Jenni Rodda, NYU/Institute of Fine Arts, ARTstor and/or Luna.