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>The VRA Foundation Internship Award Committee is now calling for >potential host sites for the recipient of the 2013-2014 Kress-funded >VRAF internship award. The award grants $3,000 to support a period >of internship in archives, libraries, museums, visual resources >collections in academic institutions, or other appropriate contexts. >The student will provide 200 hours of service to a visual resources >collection at an appropriate host institution. > >If you and your institution are interested in a student who has >completed at least 10 credits of course work in Library/Information >Science, Art History, Architecture or Architectural History, Visual >or Studio Art, Museum Studies, or other applicable fields of study >working in your facility during the Fall, Winter, or Spring of >2013-2014, please complete the form posted in the grants section of >the VRAF web site at >http://vrafoundation.org.s119319.gridserver.com/index.php/grants/internship_award/. > >All that is required is your contact information and a brief >description of the internship opportunity. A list of potential sites >will be added to the web site to help potential awardees find an >internship focused on visual resources and image management in their >geographical area. Please send inquiries and/or e-mail the completed >form to: Maureen Burns, at [log in to unmask] We plan to compile >this quickly so that we can get the call for internship applicants >out soon and place the intern during the 2013-2014 academic year. It >would be appreciated if you can send this information by June 20th. >Detailed application information for internship applicants will be >released shortly thereafter. > >We hope that you will consider hosting a one-year pilot internship >while the VRAF develops the program. Although there will only be one >intern award in 2013-2014 and one hosting site selected, the VRAF >Internship Award Committee will be working with the VRA Education >Committee on expanding this resource list and sustaining the >program. Thank you for your consideration. > >The VRA Foundation is excited to be able to support the education >and practical training of emerging information professionals through >the implementation of this new internship award. For more >information about the Visual Resources Association Foundation, its >mission and projects, as well as giving opportunities, please visit >us at: www.vrafoundation.org, or read the latest issue of our annual >report at: http://vrafoundation.org/downloads/2012_Annual_Report.pdf. > >Best regards, > >Maureen Burns, Meghan Musolff, & Margaret Webster VRAF Internship Awards Committee -- Maureen Burns, Ed.D. IMAGinED Consulting 310-489-3792 [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] http://imageminders.net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/join.html Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~