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Wednesday, September 10, 2014



Visual Resources Association Foundation Announces 2014 Professional
Development Grant Winners



The Board of Directors of the Visual Resources Association Foundation is
pleased to announce the presentation of its 2014 VRAF Professional
Development Grants to Mark Pompelia, Rhode Island School of Design, and
Courtney Baron, University of Georgia. The amount of each award is $850.00.



Mark Pompelia, recipient of the grant for Established Career Professional,
is Visual + Material Resource Librarian at the Fleet Library, Rhode Island
School of Design, in Providence, RI.  He will use the award to support his
participation at the October 2014 conference of the Art Libraries Society
of Australia and New Zealand in Auckland, NZ.  He will speak in the session
titled, *Steady as She Goes: Images and the Visual Resources Association:
Preserving the Past while Embracing the Future*, organized by VRA
colleagues Victoria Brown of Oxford University, UK, and Jennifer Brasher of
Griffith University Queensland College of Art Library, Queensland,
Australia.  Mark’s talk will focus on the “expanded definition of visual
resources at the Rhode Island School of Design,” which “has come to include
all non-text-based collections and services for RISD’s twenty-two
departments and administrative offices of the President, Alumni Affairs,
Graduate Studies, and Global Partners and Programs.”  Proposed by the new
VRA International Chapter, this session was inspired by enthusiasm for the
opening session at the 2014 VRA conference in Milwaukee, moderated by Mark,
which had a similar theme.  This is the first time a VRAF Grant has been
awarded to an American attending an international conference, exemplifying
the Foundation’s commitment to reaching a diverse and global audience with
educational offerings in the field of visual resources and image management.



Courtney Baron, recipient of the grant in the Emerging Professional
category, serves as the new Visual Resources Curator in the Lamar Dodd
School of Art at the University of Georgia in Athens, GA.  She is also
working toward her MLIS degree at Valdosta State University, focusing on
art and academic librarianship, with the anticipation of finishing in the
spring of 2015.  Courtney will use the grant to support her participation
at the 2015 Visual Resources Association Annual Conference in Denver,
Colorado.  As a first-time VRA conference attendee, Courtney expects to
bring back “much needed connections, tools, and ideas” to her home
institution.  Among the topics she is eager to learn more about are “the
changing and growing responsibilities of the visual resources professional,
re-envisioning the physical space of visual resources libraries, and
supporting the digital humanities.”  She would also like to see what
collection management systems other professionals are using, since her
goals at the University of Georgia include selecting and implementing a new
database for their image collection, as well as an institutional archive
for their School of Art.  Courtney states that although the VRA listserv
“has been an invaluable resource” in her pursuit of information about these
and other topics, she knows that she “could learn and absorb much more at
the annual VRA conference.  I know I will put the experience of attending
VRA to good use.”



The purpose of the VRAF Professional Development Grant is to support
professional development in the field of visual resources and image
management.  In recognition of the differing professional development needs
for an emerging professional and an established career professional, two
awards are funded annually.  Please visit vrafoundation.org for more
information.



The mission of the VRA Foundation is to advance knowledge in the field of
visual resources and image management and to provide educational and
training opportunities in support of broad access to cultural information
in the digital age. The Foundation advances awareness of important issues
for digital information management; encourages the application of
professional standards, innovative technology, and metadata cataloging
protocols; facilitates workplace training; and promotes awareness of
intellectual property rights and copyright issues. The VRA Foundation
supports a range of educational offerings to help ensure that such
information reaches a diverse and global audience.


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