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Attendance
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Sheryl Wilhite (MIT), Mary Wassermann (Philadelphia
Museum of Art), Sue Miller (Syracuse University), N.J. Wolfe (Fashion Institute
of Technology), Corey Schultz (Stanford U., Dept of Art & Art History), Norine
Duncan (Brown University), Eric Schwab (Cornell ), Elisa Lanzi (Smith College),
Debby Aframe ( Worcester Art Museum), Lauren Ray (Student North Carolina Central
University), Mark Pompelia (Rice University), Ann C. Shincevich (University of
Pittsburgh Student MLIS), Trudy Jacoby (Princeton), Margaret Webster
(Cornell), Gregory Most (National Gallery of Art) |
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| 1.Call
to Order |
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Meeting was called to order by Sheryl Wilhite. The
incoming Moderator, Giovanna Jackson, was not able to be at the meeting. Susan
Miller has volunteered to be Vice Moderator. It was put to a vote and Susan was
unanimously voted in. |
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| 2. Approval
of St. Louis meeting minutes |
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Sheryl asked for approval of the minutes. They
were approved. Sheryl expressed thanks to Giovanna Jackson for doing the VRD
column for ARLIS Update, and to Daniel Nolting for providing us with a great web
site as our Webmaster. Mary Wassermann and Gregg Most, along with Sheryl, also
provided feedback about the design of our website. |
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| 3. Joint
Taskforce |
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Mary Wassermann reported on the Joint Education
Taskforce that was formed between ARLIS/NA and VRA, of which she is ARLIS/NA
Co-Chair. Years ago we had a workshop in fundamentals of visual resources
management, to help new people in the field of Slide Collection management,
development and cataloging. The Taskforce is trying to develop an ongoing Summer
Institute on Visual Resources. They are planning an Institute for about 20
people, open to both organizations. The group has prepared a curriculum and
hopes to run the Institute next summer. It will be hosted by Rice University in
Houston, and will be hosted by different institutions each year to make it more
accessible to a larger number of participants over time. The VRA Co-Chair is
John Taormina. Elisa Lanzi said that it
will take a lot of planning since it is as complex as a conference with issues
of planning, funding, etc. She was concerned about logistics. Fundraising will
begin after the conference. Anyone interested in this project should contact
Mary Wassermann.
Sue Miller suggested Syracuse University as a
site for a future Summer Institute. There are two professors in the School of
Information Studies who are interested in the area of Visual Images (Abby
Goodrum and Joan Silverstein). They are both attending the VRA meeting this
year. Ann C. Shincevich, a student from U.Pittsburgh was also interested in this
possibility for her institution. |
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| 4. New
Purpose (Dissolving of Visual Resources Advisory Committee) |
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With the new arrangement in ARLIS of
committees, divisions, etc., VRAC (Visual Resources Advisory Committee) is
dissolved. Since Divisions no longer officially sponsor conference sessions, we
discussed what VRD's role is. (Mary may want to edit this section) Mary said an
ad hoc group was organized in 1997 to bring issues related to VR and the VR
membership to the ARLIS/NA executive board. The hope was to better integrate
visual resources into ARLIS/NA programming. . It is hoped that the VRD Moderator
will act as a liaison to VRA., and that the VRD maintains a strong relationship
with the Board. Norine said that the Board
thinks this will be approved. This will give us a chance to create a session
together. There are many art librarians who are now working with imaging.
We need to think about VRD all year round. There
was a call for news for the Update Column.
Elisa suggested that people in VR work in all
kinds of areas. We need more connections with VRA and ARLIS. She would like to
see more collaborations. She also said that VRA people are not necessarily Art
Librarians. Their jobs today deal more with technology and classroom
preparation. We need more cross communications because of this. We need to
understand that the focus of VRA is different than the past and it is important
that we share this.
Mark added that VRA has had cross association
sponsorship. We can have a VRA session for VRD, not all or nothing. VRD could
still sponsor a session. We bring a skill set to VRA.
Mary pointed out that Art Librarians need help
with imaging projects.
The two websites:
ARLIS/VRD and
VRA should be
complementary to each other.
Someone suggested that we could have a
"Presented by VRA program. This is another nice way to have a new point of
view at conferences.
Ann said that students do not know how to begin
Digital projects. They need step-by-step instruction for imaging projects.
ArtStor was looking for help on what projects to
do. They are looking for VR people and selectors and licensing people to become
involved. This will give us a say in what is happening.
Mary has been asked for assessment of the St.
Louis Conference. She will be soliciting feedback from colleagues.
Discussion on the VRD website (Move this
sentence to another paragraph where it fits a bit better.) Sheryl suggest that
we put out public service announcements about what is on our website.
Mark pointed out the image directory has not
been updated in a while (I think he meant on the VRA website, not
VRD). This
site is very important. It is good to tell people where to go to find images in
the field. |
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| 5. ARLIS
VRA Coordination |
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Sue Miller said that ARLIS/ WNY and ARLIS/ NE will be
having their Spring Meeting with VRA/Upstate New York at Smith College. We will
be touring Smith's new facilities and seeing a demo of how they use Luna Imaging
for teaching purposes.
We no longer work alone in our departments. We need to
help set up common standards. Collaboration and coordination is what is
important. The VR community is all about collaboration. Eric suggested that one
thing is that VR people work closely with faculty and know what they are
interested in. Being at the point of delivery of the images and involved in the
technology means we provide a perspective that may not be present in library
collections.
Ann pointed out the problem of separate departments
wanting to do things along with the library and preservation departments. This
creates many problems because of the lack of coordination and standards. There
is also the perspective of outsourcing.
Dick discussed that fact that we need to build VR for the
whole institution. We need to consider things like MDID and Luna Images for not
just departments, but an institutional system.
Elisa mentioned that ArtStor is using both platforms.
Mary mentioned that Luna Insight will have a personal
collection section in the future. This would be where you can put your own set
of images that would not have to be in the public. There was also a discussion
on collections being separated by departments. It can be suggested that there
could be interactive collections. Using metadata can help to bring different
collections together. It could also mean putting books, images and other media
together for teaching purposes. Librarians have not done what they need to be
involved in these kind of projects.
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| 6. History
of the Visual Resources Profession |
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Sheryl brought up the project for the visual history of
the Visual Resources profession. Little has been put in at this point. Maryly
Snow has been involved in this. The suggestion was to go to slide librarians and
have them write something about their collection's history. It was suggested
that Maryly again ask for help. |
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| 7. Survey
of Lantern Slides |
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This project seems to be in limbo at this time. Note
since this meeting, ARLIS/NA and VRA have resumed discussions about posting a
websurvey about members lantern slide holdings. |
| 8. Other
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Mary looked into the idea of collaborative projects. We
could make it an offshoot of what VRA is doing this year. It could involve
successes and failures. Margaret suggested that in
thinking about session proposals for 2004 we look across the field. What are the
problems and how are we solving them. How are those solutions different in VRA
and ARLIS. VRA has the technical information. Mark suggested joint programs. VRA
at ARLIS, and the reverse to complement sessions. Margaret thought part one
could be at one conference and part two at the other. It would be good for VRA
to have a session at the NY ARLIS conference.
Proposals for next year might be how people are using
ARTStor, how we are integrating collections, what is the process and how to
evaluate this.
Norine suggested that for a session on Librarians as
Teachers we need a session on how to teach people to use these complex tools.
Margaret added that we make the distinction of whether that is in a classroom or
a single person.
More suggestions were made about such topics as
cataloging, processing, metadata and linking processes.
There was a short discussion on the St. Louis conference.
The basic concerns were what ARLIS could do to further this relationship with
VRA.
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Meeting adjourned at 5:30 |
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Respectfully submitted Susan
Miller
VRD Vice Monitor |
