27th Annual Conference
March 18-21, 2009
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General Conference Support  |
Friday, March 20 8:00 am – 6:00 pm Registration 8:00 - 10:30 am VRA Business Meeting & Breakfast The Annual Business Meeting is the official forum for conduction association business. The agenda includes the President’s State of the Association; select officers reports; brief reports from committee chairs; updates on current and future association projects and activities; the recognition of outgoing officers, committee chairs, and appointees, the induction of incoming officers, committee chairs, and appointees; the presentation of the VRA Travel Awards; a presentation on the 2010 annual conference city; and questions and announcements from the audience. All members are encouraged to attend, and enjoy a continental breakfast while they catch up on Association business 10:30 am - 5:00 pm VRAffle See Special Events section. 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Session 8: SAHARA at Launch Time The SAHARA (Society of Architectural Historians Architecture Resources Archive) project is scheduled to launch on April 1, 2009, with approximately 10,000 images and 100 QTVRs, as well as an upload toolkit for individual submissions to SAHARA by scholars. This session provides a pre-launch demonstration of SAHARA, along with the tools, so that the visual resources community can see the directions in which the project is moving. We will also update attendees about the next steps for the second and third years of SAHARA, and facilitate a discussion about participation..
Session 9: Training Millennials at Work: Strategies for Training a New Generation Millennials (student workers and temporary employees born between 1980 and 2000) have become increasingly important human resources in visual resource collections. As this demographic plays an increasingly more significant role in our daily operations, how do we effectively teach and train Millennials? This session focuses on strategies for educating and communicating essential aspects and concepts of the VR profession to individuals immersed in the Web 2.0 culture. Panelists will cover multiple topics and points of view, including: the hiring process and conducting meaningful interviews; metadata and cataloging practices; production, digitization and image quality control; and effective communication with Millennial employees. The session will be enhanced by examples of new tools and innovative ways to conduct outreach and motivate employees.
Meeting: Chapter Chairs 12:30 - 2:00 pm Ask the Expert: Digital Video and Audio in the Classroom Have the faculty you support inquired about how to use digital
video and/or audio clips in the classroom? Or, perhaps, they want
advice on how to incorporate digital video production as an option
for the assignments they give their students. Carolyn has been supporting
faculty with their digital teaching and research needs for the past
4 years. She can offer her experiences and expertise about digital
video and audio from creating and editing it, to ways of sharing
it on the web and in the classroom. Carolyn can also offer ideas
about collaborating with other departments on campus to develop
multimedia services.
Birds of a Feather Network Luncheons 2:00 – 5:00 pm Vendor Slam A variety of vendors will each give short presentations describing products and services of interest to the visual resources professional. A panorama covering everything from image capture/display to image documentation and image access will be represented. From 3:30-5:00 pm, complimentary wine and cheese will be served during which attendees and vendors can meet for individual questions and literature distribution. A surprise "gift" will be given to each attendee during this period. Wine and cheese provided through the generosity of Archivision Inc., Davis Art Images, Gallery Systems, Luna Imaging Inc., Saskia Inc., Scholars Resource, and Synthescape Inc.
4:30 - 6:00 pm VRA Student Members: Question & Answer Time A time for student members to connect, meet new friends and ask questions of their mentors and Board members.
5:00 - 6:30 pm Special Users Group: EmbARK EmbARK is a suite of software tools designed to catalog and manage collections. Cataloguer provides the user to input metadata for digital images, manages thumbnails, provides import and export tools to easily migrate data in or out of the Cataloguer. Records can be grouped into portfolios or managed as a whole. Comprehensive searching options are available. There will be time for discussion of version 7 including the new feature of drag and drop. Time will be allotted for questions and comments.
Special Interest Group: Cataloging This is an open forum that will be “all about cataloging”. It will be audience-driven and interactive, but moderated.
Special Interest Group: VRA Digital Matchmaking An open and ongoing forum for brainstorming ideas about creating a digital matchmaking commons, discussing progress to date, and further advancing initiatives such as building a directory of freely accessible image collections and finding communication areas for sharing images, metadata, and associated information about such collaborative activities.
Meeting: Awards Committee 8:00 - 9:30 pm The 2009 Tansey Fundraising Event The Tansey Fundraiser will bring you something we all need – lots of laughter, with “Live! The Second City”. We are thrilled to have a private performance from the famed Second City improv comedy group. They’ll be combining very funny sketches with improvisational bits using suggestions from the audience. The Second City began in Chicago in 1959, quickly growing from stage shows to tours, television specials, and training workshops. The Second City Toronto was born in 1973, which added SCTV in the late1970s, one of the best sketch comedy shows ever. Some of the finest comic actors of the last 30 years trained with Second City Toronto, including Dan Akroyd, Gilda Radner, Mike Myers, John Candy, Catherine O’Hara, Eugene Levy, and Martin Short, to name but a few. Join us on Friday, March 20 for what is sure to be a very fun fundraiser – and, all profits will go into the Tansey Travel Award fund. You can read more about the history of The Second City, and even see clips from sketches, here: http://www.secondcity.com/?id=history/timeline |