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The Art Libraries Society/North America (ARLIS/NA) and the Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) are pleased to announce the 2009 Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management, to be held at Simmons College in Boston, MA, from June 8th - June 13th, 2009.

 

Topics to be covered, broken once again into “days” include:

• Metadata (Core 4.0, CCO, XML, Sharable Metadata)

• Cataloging (Authorities, Standards, Integrated Access, Work vs. Image)

• Imaging (Digital Imaging, Scanning, Best Practices, Digital Project & Color Management)

• Databases (Choosing a Database, various Databases, Image Management Systems)

• Strategy (Intellectual Property Rights, Storage & Archiving, Digital Repositories, Preservation & Longevity, Access & Outreach, Licensing)

 

Instructors, covering a wide range of expertise, have been drawn from recognized professionals in the field, showcasing our colleagues at Simmons.

Attendees, ranging from visual resources specialists to academics to digital librarians and archivists to library school students, receive certification of attendance and completion from our parent organizations.

 

As most library and information science programs do not address the needs of image collection professionals, the ARLIS/NA –VRAF Summer Educational Institute (SEI) is intended to provide a standardized and sustainable program for visual resources training, with a focus on issues related to digital collection management and item-level image metadata. As was true for the previous five SEIs, the 2009 class is expected to be full.

 

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES

 

We are actively seeking donors and sponsors for the 2009 Summer Educational Institute and for future institutes. All levels of sponsorship are welcome. Many opportunities for named sponsorship at various levels are available, including faculty/instructor support ($250 and up), a reception ($750 and up), and breaks ($125-$250). 

 

We invite all interested vendors, corporate colleagues, and contributors to visit the Summer Educational Institute website  http://www.vrafoundation.org/sei2009/index.html for a complete description of all aspects of our program and our roster of instructors, and to visit our Sponsors Page (listing past years’ sponsors), at http://www.vraweb.org/seiweb/sponsors.html.

 

The 2009 Summer Educational Institute development contact is:

Trudy Jacoby
Director, Visual Resources Collection
Department of Art and Archaeology
Princeton University
207 McCormick Hall
Princeton, NJ 08544-1018

tel: 609-258-5853 

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