Greetings ARLIS Members:
In response to the current economic climate that has impacted the
institutions where our visual resources facilities reside, the VRA
Board has asked me to form an authoring group (see below) to produce
a white paper that will not only address salient issues but also
suggest options for dealing with the evolving visual resources
landscape. This document will demonstrate that visual resources
professionals and the facilities they manage actively contribute to
an institution's mission and technological future by providing
necessary expertise, assets, services and learning spaces.
The VRA Board along with a cadre of reviewers from the visual
resources community, affiliated organizations (ARLIS, CAA, MCN, etc.)
and beyond will be enlisted to comment on the draft to ensure it is
useful and will resonate with faculty, administrators and others
outside the visual resources profession.
As a first step, we are presently trying to think through ideal VRC
scenarios in academic departments/schools, transferring operations to
libraries, diversifying by adding IT and/or AV responsibilities, or
adjusting roles in museum contexts. To help us with this work, we
encourage image professionals who have been engaged in redefining
their role and that of their facility to share their experience by
contacting Elizabeth Schaub by June 10th, who will be focused on the
case studies section of the paper; in addition, she may communicate
the information you provide to the appropriate workers in the
authoring group who may want to dialog with you.
We are drafting this document over the next month in order to make
the information available as soon as possible. If you need
information sooner or have any suggestions, questions, or concerns
about this white paper process, please contact Maureen Burns.
Authoring group members and their respective white paper focus:
:: Maureen Burns (<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask])
Humanities Curator, Visual Resources Collection
University of California, Irvine
focus: VRCs in academic departments/schools
:: Rebecca Moss (<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask])
Visual Resources Coordinator, Office of Information Technology
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
focus: VRC's integrated into IT units
:: Meghan Musolff (<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask])
Assistant Coordinator, Visual Resources Collections, History of Art Department
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
focus: VRCs in academic departments/schools
:: Alex Nichols (<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask])
Academic Technology Coordinator, Department of Art and Art History
Michigan State University, East Lansing
focus: Diversifying by adding IT and/or AV responsibilities
:: Henry Pisciotta (<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask])
Arts and Architecture Librarian
Pennsylvania State University
focus: VRCs integrated into university libraries
:: Elizabeth Schaub
(<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask])
Visual Resources Collection Director, School of Architecture
University of Texas at Austin
Focus: Case studies
:: Betha Whitlow (<mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask])
Curator of Visual Resources, Department of Art History and Archaeology
Washington University in St. Louis
Focus: VRCs within museums
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Maureen Burns, Ed.D.
Humanities Curator
Visual Resources Collection
University of California, Irvine
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