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****************PLENARY SESSION HIGHLIGHTS***************** The ARLIS/NA~VRA Joint Conference in St Louis offers not one but two PLENARY Sessions this year. Have you looked up the word PLENARY lately? The OED definition reads below: plenary, a. (n.) A. adj. 1. Complete, entire, perfect, not deficient in any element or respect; = FULL a. 7; absolute, unqualified: as plenary indulgence, power, remission. plenary inspiration: see INSPIRATION. For the ultimate in inspiration you may want to seriously consider attending the Plenary Sessions: Saturday morning, March 23rd, at a reasonable 9:30 a.m is the Plenary Session I: NINCH Copyright Town Meeting: "The Changing Research and Collections Environment: The Information Commons Today". Co-organized with the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), and part of an ongoing series of Copyright Town Meetings held across the nation since 1997, this session will be open to the public. The meeting will focus on the history and meaning of the "information commons," a term used to describe the various free and open public resources of information, and how that concept intersects with licensing, one of the prevailing mechanisms for distributing digital resources today. The session will be introduced by Kathe Albrecht, Visual Resources Curator, American University, and Roger Lawson, Administrative Librarian, National Gallery of Art, and David Green, Executive Director, NINCH. The three hour plenary session is divided into two areas of special interest. The first half will be devoted to the topic the 'Information Commons' with inspired panelists Michael Shapiro, Partner, International Intellectual Property Institute, and Jeffrey Cohen, Lecturer, Bryn Mawr College. The second half will be devoted to the topic 'Licensing Cultural Resources' with experts Mary Case, Director, Office of Scholarly Communication of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), Robert Clarida, Partner, Cowan, Liebowitz and Latman (representing ArtSTOR), and Tony Gill, Program Officer for Member Initiatives, Research Libraries Group. A hallmark of all NINCH Town Meetings is the open forum to give all attendees the opportunity to participate in an examination of the issues through prepared queries and informal discussion. Monday afternoon, March 25th, at 1:00 is Plenary Session II: The Three V's: Visual Technology, Visual Culture, and Visual Literacy with moderator Katharine Martinez, Herman and Joan Suit Librarian, Fine Arts Library, Harvard University. In this plenary session, the formal presentation format has been abandoned to accommodate discussion on the three V's of the growing digital environment - Visual Technology, Visual Culture, and Visual Literacy - from panelists representing various roles in the creation, use, and delivery of digital image products. The inspired panelists in this session include Jennifer Trant, Executive Director, AMICO, Max Marmor, Director of Collection Development, ArtSTOR, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Susan Jane Williams, Visual Resources Curator, Art Library, Yale University, and Paula Lupkin, Assistant Professor of Architectural History, Washington University School of Architecture. Each of the panelsits will present a brief overview of their digital image products, projects, or educational and administrative pursuits, then they will be asked a series of questions, posed by the moderator, concerning the digital environment and the 3 V's. The questions will probe the panelists to reveal their opinions about the direction Visual Technology is going within the realm of Visual Culture (which is concerned with visual events sought by users), while at the same time taking into account Visual Literacy (content base, use and access of visual information). This plenary session is sure to expose the issues, trends, and challenges that are of concern to all visual art professionals administering the growing digital visual culture and preparing users for the next generation of visual technology. Questions from the floor will also be solicited. We are thrilled to be the hosts of such vital programs at the ARLIS/NA~VRA Joint Conference, and look forward to seeing you soon in St Louis! Deborah Ultan ([log in to unmask]) Margaret Webster ([log in to unmask]) ARLIS/NA~VRA 2002 Program Co-chairs Deborah K. Ultan ph: (612)625-6438 Art/Art History Librarian fax: (612) 626-9353 University of Minnesota email: [log in to unmask] 170b Wilson Library 309 19th Ave South Minneapolis, MN 55455 __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner (Kerri Scannell) at: [log in to unmask]