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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
News on Networking Cultural Heritage Resources
from across the Community
October 4, 2000
For Immediate Release
Contact: Kathe Hicks Albrecht
202-885-1675
VISUAL RESOURCES ASSOCIATION ANNOUNCES
THE PUBLICATION OF NEW IMAGE COLLECTION GUIDELINES
Guidelines will focus on the acquisition and use
of visual images in educational settings
http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/vra/vra.html
(Washington, D.C., October 4, 2000) Visual Resources Association, the international organization of image media professionals, recently
announced the publication of a new guide for visual resources
professionals. The Image Collection Guidelines: The Acquisition and
Use of Images in Non-Profit Educational Visual Resource Collections
will provide practical principles for the acquisition, attribution,
and display of visual images for educational use.
The Image Collection Guidelines were developed by the VRA
Intellectual Property Rights Committee upon the conclusion of the U.
S. Commerce Department Conference on Fair Use in 1998. Through
representatives Virginia M.G. Hall (Johns Hopkins University) and
Kathe Hicks Albrecht (American University), VRA actively participated in the Conference on Fair Use from 1994 to 1998. CONFU participants from museums, libraries, publishing companies, and educational institutions, sought to develop a set of guidelines for the use of digital images that would meet the needs and interests of museums, libraries, publishers, educators, and the general public. Although the CONFU process failed to result in approved guidelines for digital images, VRA participants recognized the importance of providing guidelines for those working in the field.
Kathe Hicks Albrecht, chair of the Intellectual Property Rights
Committee, explained that many educational institutions are dependent upon the use of illustrative images for teaching and that the introduction of digital information and electronic networks has
dramatically changed the use of visual information. Issues of
copyright, display standards, image duplication, and legal
responsibility need to be addressed in the digital era. Those who
work in the information field and those who teach with illustrative
images find that professionally accepted principles for acquisition,
use, and display of these images can be very helpful.
In May 2000, the newly published Image Collection Guidelines were
featured in a double session at the American Association of Museums conference in Baltimore, Maryland . The session, sponsored by the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage, focused on resources and policies recently developed by the cultural community and included the work of the American Association of Museums, the College Art Association, and the Visual Resources Association.
Ann Whiteside, VRA President, stated that the Guidelines, originally
published in the VRA Bulletin (Fall 1999, vol. 26, no.3, pp. 27-29),
is available in print form for distribution to educational
institutions and is also available electronically on the VRA website
at http://www.oberlin.edu/~art/vra/vra.html.
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