The Visual Resources Association's 2005 Annual Conference will be held in Miami Beach, Florida from March 5-11, 2005. See the VRA home page for links to information on the conference hotel, the Wyndham Miami Beach Resort, and to the Visitor's Center http://www.vraweb.org We are now soliciting proposals for the 2005 program--sessions, seminars, workshops, papers, and Special Interest Groups. Areas of interest include (but are not limited to) digitization and presentation of digital images, cataloging and metadata, teaching with technology, film preservation, museum issues, copyright and Fair Use, managing non-art image collections, grant-writing, and the history and future of visual resources. The online proposal form can be found at http://www.vraweb.org/VRAPortland/2005OnlineProposalform.htm Deadline for submission of proposals is Friday, May 28, 2004. Please contact me at [log in to unmask] if you need more information. Sheryl Brittig Sheryl L. Brittig, Librarian Vice President, Visual Resources Association Rotch Visual Collections, 7-304 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 617-253-7098 Phone 617-253-9331 Fax [log in to unmask] http://www.vraweb.org __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org//membership.html Send 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]