Please excuse duplication in cross-posting The deadline to submit proposals for the 2005 Visual Resources Association's Annual Conference in Miami Beach, Florida is May 28, 2004. You may submit proposals online by going to http://www.vraweb.org/VRAPortland/2005OnlineProposalform.htm Proposals may be for Sessions, Seminars, Workshops, Papers, or Special Interest Groups. Some topics covered at the 2004 conference included Strategies for Transitioning to the Age of Digital Media, Management of a Digitization Project, Cataloging Contemporary Art, Cataloging the Built Environment, Preservation and Conservation of Born-Digital Art, Orphaning of the Analog Image Surrogate, Making Copyright Law Work for You, Job Status and the VR Professional, Negotiating and Licensing Electronic Content, Preparing for Shared Cataloging, and much more. I will acknowledge each proposal received; if you do not get an acknowledgement, please follow up with me to insure your proposal is in hand. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions [log in to unmask] Best, Sheryl Sheryl L. Brittig, Librarian Vice President for Conference Program, 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]