To: ARLIS-L & VRA-L Colleagues
What are workshops and why are they important? Why should I --or my
institution -- pay so that I can attend one? Is this a wise way to spend
scarce resources?
Workshops represent the practical side of our professions and form an
important part of every ARLIS/NA and VRA conference. They offer
information, training, and advice about how and why we do things; they give
us ideas about how we might be able to do them better. They also provide
us with opportunities, long after the conference ends, to network with
colleagues who have similar interests and problems. Both VRA and ARLIS/NA
traditionally offer workshops that cover a broad range of topics and that
are scaled to different levels of expertise and experience. The St. Louis
conference is no exception.
This year joint conference registrants have a unique opportunity to
cross-over and to experience workshops that are typically offered by the
"other" organization. Some are technically oriented and will introduce you
to digital image production or the intricacies of image enhancement and
manipulation. Others will explore the process of building relational
databases or introduce you to the fundamentals of visual resources
curatorship. Some are led by experienced colleagues; others by
professionals from outside our professions who are experts in the topics
covered by a given workshop.
This year our joint conference is pleased to offer a couple of workshops
that are appropriate for librarians and visual resources professionals who
are in mid-career and need to learn how to manage projects or to become
effective leaders in their institutions. Kathryn Deiss will lead a
workshop for Mid-Career Manager in Libraries and Visual Resources
Collection as well as a Project Management Workshop. Pat Wagner will lead
a workshop which will help us improve our public speaking skills.
Finally, Elisa Lanzi will lead the workshop or practical component of the
series of presentations titled "Common Ground." This workshop will
demonstrate how the issues of data structure, data values, and access
points that will later be discussed in the session and debated in the
seminar can be implemented. Topics include: the adaptation of the VRA Core
categories to a database structure; conversion of VRA Core concepts into
fields and authority files in a relational database; use of online
authorities in supporting descriptive cataloging choices. She will
demonstrate these concepts with examples from a prototype version of a
collection management system.
So, there really is a workshop to fit every need! Try one and learn
something new before the actual hurly burly of the conference begins.
Margaret N. Webster
Visual Resources Facility
College of Architecture, Art & Planning
B-56 Sibley Hall
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3300
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http://www.aapvrf.cornell.edu
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