Good afternoon, Just a quick reminder that the deadline to respond to the visual resource survey is tomorrow, November 20. For more information, please see my original mail below. Best wishes, Meghan Musolff VRA + ARLIS/NA Criteria Revision Joint Task Force On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Meghan Musolff <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear ARLIS/NA Colleagues, > > A joint VRA + ARLIS/NA Task Force is currently at work preparing an > updated revision of the professional standards document titled “Criteria > for the Hiring and Retention of Visual Resources Professionals<http://www.collegeart.org/guidelines/resources>” > (originally adopted 1995; revised 2002). > > In order to assess the current state of the profession, and elicit > perceptions about visual resources professionals and the services they > provide, the Task Force distributed a users’ survey this past spring to the > College Art Association (CAA) membership. We were particularly interested > in receiving responses from teaching faculty, and were pleased that 249 CAA > members with instructional duties completed our survey. > > The Task Force would now like to correlate these CAA responses with > information and perceptions from our own membership. We request a few > moments of your time to complete the following brief mini-survey focusing > on image collections in your organization and on services provided by > visual resources professionals to your patrons or other clients. > > Your responses to this survey will help the Criteria Revision Joint Task > Force assess the current state of the profession, and provide important > updates to the statistics contained in the VRA’s 2007 Professional Status > Survey. > > More than one employee from an organization may participate in this > survey; however, be advised that SurveyMonkey allows only one submission > from each computer address. You are welcome to share this message and link > with art library colleagues who are not ARLIS/NA members. > > This survey will remain open from *Friday, November 1 through Wednesday, > November 20, 2013*. > > https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/arlisna > > Thanks in advance for taking the time to provide us with this vital > information! > > Best wishes, > Meghan Musolff > VRA + ARLIS/NA Criteria Revision Joint Task Force > > -- > Meghan Musolff > Special Projects Librarian for LIT and Publishing > Omeka Coordinator > University of Michigan Library > 734-647-5978 > > > -- Meghan Musolff Special Projects Librarian for LIT and Publishing Omeka Coordinator University of Michigan Library 734-647-5978 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~