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” (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. 

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