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Dear Colleagues, The VRA Awards Committee is seeking nominations for the *2021 Nancy DeLaurier Award*, which honors a single professional or a group of professionals for distinguished achievement in the field of visual resources. “Achievement” is measured by immediate impact, and may take the form of published works, oral presentations, digital humanities projects, open source solutions, software development, technology applications, website creations, or other outstanding efforts. We encourage the VRA membership to consider the tools that have made an impact on your work in visual resources: research, presentations, projects, publications, tools, technologies, etc. For inspiration, these are the recent past recipients: 2017 - Anne Young for the *Rights & Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions;* 2016 - Developers of VRA Core (Esme Cowles, Ben Kessler, Trish Rose-Sandler, Jan Eklund); 2015 - Editors of *Cataloging Cultural Objects* (Murtha Baca, Patricia Harpring, Elisa Lanzi, Linda McRae, Ann Whiteside). Who would you like to recognize for a specific contribution to our field? Please consider nominating a worthy colleague or specific achievement for this prestigious DeLaurier Award. An e-mail of intent or query can set the process in motion! Just describe the nature of the nominee’s achievements and the Awards Committee can work with you to procure the nominee’s curriculum vitae and letters of support for the nomination. Recommendations from the Awards Committee are subject to approval by the VRA Executive Board. Nomination documents will be retained in the Association Archives. We look forward to learning about the many terrific efforts happening across the Visual Resources Association and within the profession as well as hearing from you soon. *The nomination letters and letters of support** for the 2021 Nancy DeLaurier Award are being accepted until January 5th, 2021.* *Please contact me ([log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>) or any member of the Awards Committee: http://vraweb.org/about/committees/awards-committee/ <http://vraweb.org/about/committees/awards-committee/>.* We would be very happy to help with your ideas and the process. Addendum: Due to the cancellation of the VRA 2020 Baltimore conference with the pandemic, the *VRA Distinguished Service Award* was not presented last year. A 2020 DSA recipient was selected and this award will be bestowed at the VRA 2021 Virtual Chicago conference, along with the DeLaurier Award. The DSA award honors an individual who has made an outstanding career contribution to the field of visual resources and image management. Note: Current members of the VRA Awards Committee or the Executive Board should not write in support of nominations, nor should they be included in nominations. Best regards. Maureen Burns VRA Awards Committee Chair IMAGinED Consulting [log in to unmask] 310-489-3792 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna 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] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~