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Friday, March 14 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration8:00 am -10:30 am VRA Business Meeting & Breakfast10:30 am-6:00 pm Exhibit Hall10:30 am-5:00 pm VRAffle11 am-12:30 pm Session 5: Common Threads: Libraries and Visual Resources Collections Merging, Partnering, and Finding New Ways to Work TogetherAcademic libraries and visual resources collections are finding mutually beneficial new ways to work together to develop and deliver image resources. Libraries have become increasingly interested in digital images, subscription image databases, and visual literacy. Visual resources collections are building digital image databases, and are often looking for the technological infrastructure and metadata expertise typically available in academic libraries. Additionally, many institutions are emphasizing university-wide, rather than departmental resources, particularly as digital resources make this a possibility, and budget realities require it. In this climate, many visual resources collections have moved out of departments and into their college and university libraries. Others have developed partnerships with libraries to further common goals. In this session we will explore some recent libraries/visual resources mergers and partnerships, and how visual resources professionals are contributing, driving, and adapting to the changes these new relationships bring.
Session 6: Improving Your Image: Marketing Visual Resource CollectionsIn the digital age our visual resource collections and spaces can and often do serve a wider audience. Our collections are no longer tied to the rooms they inhabit. Our spaces are evolving away from static repositories to active learning environments where students and faculty from many disciplines come to find expertise in a wide range of image services. With the decreasing usage of our slide collections, particularly by students, it is a challenge to promote awareness of our existence and of the resources we provide. How do we advertise new services to our existing customers while reaching out to new users? During this panel presentation visual resource curators from a variety of schools will share creative methods they have employed to market their services, collections and spaces. Each panelist will talk about the process of creating their marketing campaign, how they implemented it, and the results of their efforts. Examples include making commercials, utilizing Web 2.0 tools, producing posters, and giving away promotional items.
12:30-2 pm Lunch Birds-of-a-Feather Network LuncheonMeeting: Financial Advisory CommitteeMeeting: Membership CommitteeMeeting: Data Standards CommitteeAsk the ExpertsDatabase Design and Functions Have questions about database design or functions? Want to know basics about exporting and validating xml from a database? Need tips and tricks on importing and exporting xml or flattened csv (Excel) and using them in different products? Make your data dance to your tune! All levels of users welcome for a chat on these or any other database-related topic. 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm Tour #3 Coronado Mini Trek2:00 pm-3:30 pm Session 7: Throwing the Cat Among the Pigeons: Keeping Visual Resources Positions Viable through the Digital TransitionThis session addresses the challenge of adapting our careers to the new skill sets necessary in the digital age. We will describe the different ways that the introduction of ARTstor, the digitization of our collections, and the ease of finding images on the Web has impacted the visual resources positions in the California State University system. We will solicit input from curators at other institutions who have successfully made this transition and compare notes. Speakers include a representative from ARTstor, a software vendor who will address database issues, and a museum educator, as well as CSU VR professionals.
2:00 pm-5:30 pm Workshops 4: Seeking the Right Path for Visual Resources UsersThe workshop panel comprises Jeannine Keefer and Greta Bahnemann as co-moderators, as well as contributors Karen Brummund, Martha Walker and Margaret Webster. We will provide an in-depth account of our creation of an effective teaching tool for Cornell faculty: a visual resources decision tree. This teaching tool walks users (i.e. faculty) through their various visual resource choices, whether they be presentation software, personal collection management, course management, or student review at Cornell University in the context of Cornell’s Fine Arts Library and Knight Visual Resource Facility. The decision tree helps users differentiate between the types of visual resources available to them, as well as helps the user isolate and differentiate the various types of tasks associated with using visual resources (i.e. teaching, publication, off-campus presentations, etc.). This tool is not dependant on specific software, institution organization or type of patron and can be adapted to the needs of departments and institutions. The workshop consists of a presentation explaining the development of the decision tree from both a theoretical and practical perspective. This will be followed by a discussion of the Cornell visual resources reference interview and a demonstration of our learning tool and how it functions. The workshop will then conclude with an audience interaction. This will include a take-away component in which audience members can navigate/modify the Cornell decision tree (and take this initial work with them). The audience interaction will also include a discussion forum in which participants ask questions, share their own teaching experiences and discuss the Cornell decision tree as a model and its potential application beyond Cornell University. Our goals are twofold; that the audience will understand the process/steps involved in creating an effective pedagogical tool in an academic setting and that the audience will see the advantages of creating a comprehensive decision making tool that creates consistent, repeatable results (the use of the decision tree guarantees a certain degree of “sameness” in VR instruction to our visual resource users our hope is that this will help us to function more effectively as a team of teachers). We are seeking creative ways to meet both the visual resource user’s needs and help VR professionals become more effective teachers and knowledge disseminators two issues that many art librarians and VR professionals are grappling with. We hope to develop an open forum in which attendees can candidly discuss any potential problems (and accompanying solutions) regarding our decision tree. We also hope the discussion component of the program will allow members to share their own experiences. The take-away component of this session could potentially have a high impact on attendees. We envision participants taking the Cornell decision tree (in either print form or CD) and modifying it to fit their own needs. The decision tree will be available as freeware. Organizers:
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Meeting: SEI Implementation TeamSpecial Users Group 5: The Transitional Space or Moving On Up: Facilities Planning in the Digital AgeAlthough Visual Resources are certainly moving in a digital direction, the fact remains that our professionals and the collections they manage are in various stages of transition from analog to digital. Due to the priority many institutions are placing on digital development, many of us find ourselves moving “upstairs,” both literally and metaphorically, charged with developing a plan for new, technologically-advanced spaces (both VR facilities and classrooms) that can accommodate largely digital processes. Still other professionals are attempting to manage digital image development in facilities largely designed for analog.
5:00-6:00 pm Meeting: VRA Chapter Chairs at "The Bar", Westin San Diego5:30-6:30 pm VRA Strategic Plan Task Force8:00-11:00 pm The 2008 Tansey Fundraising Event"The United States of Charles Phoenix: A Comedy about Mid-Century Americana" |