Images, April 2010
vol.7, no.2

Positions Filled
Compiled by Anne Norcross (Kendal College of Art % Design)

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Chris Strasbaugh has accepted the position of Visual Resources Curator at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, and will start his new position on April 14th.  Chris comes to Vanderbilt University from Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI, where he has been the Visual Resources Curator since December 2008. At Vanderbilt, Chris will be working closely with art history faculty in developing an image database that will support current teaching needs and grow with the plans to add a PhD program.  In his new position, Chris will also be developing various means of marketing the visual resources to the university, and instructing users on how to appropriately access and use digital images while providing support for teaching and learning. Prior to his position at Roger Williams University, Chris earned his MA in Art History from the University of Cincinnati and a BA in Fine Art Photography from Mount Vernon Nazarene University.

Upcoming Conferences
Compiled by Brooke Cox (DePauw University)

The Tectonics of Digital Curation 
A Symposium on the Shifting Preservation and Access Landscape
May 25-26, 2010
The Ray and Maria Stata Center at MIT
Cambridge, MA
http://www.nedcc.org/education/conferences/todc2010/todcdesc.php

EDUCAUSE Southeast Regional Conference
June 2-4, 2010
Atlanta, GA
http://net.educause.edu/SERC10

Western CONTENTdm Users Group Meeting
June 3-4, 2010
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
http://conference.library.utah.edu/

Digital Preservation Management Workshops
June 13-18, 2010
Cambridge, MA
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/dpm/workshops/fiveday.html

The American Library Association
June 24-29, 2010
Washington, D.C.
http://www.ala.org/ala/conferencesevents/upcoming/annual/index.cfm

 

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