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Dear VRA colleagues,

The VRA Awards Committee is seeking nominations for the 2022 Distinguished Service Award and the Nancy DeLaurier Award.

1)    The VRA Distinguished Service Award honors an individual who has made an outstanding career contribution to the field of visual resources and image management. Nominees must have achieved a level of distinction in the field either through leadership, research, or service to the profession. Nominees can also be considered for outstanding innovation, participation, or project management in visual resources.

2)    The Nancy DeLaurier Award 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 people and the tools that have made an impact on your work in visual resources: research, presentations, projects, publications, tools, technologies, and any other outstanding efforts.

For inspiration, the recent past recipients for the Distinguished Service Award are: Marcia Focht in 2021, Robb Detlefs in 2019, and Betha Whitlow in 2018.

Recent Nancy Delaurier Award winners and projects are as follows:

            2021 – Anna Bernhard and Heather Lowe for establishing VREPS

2017 – Anne Young for the Rights & Reproductions: The Handbook for Cultural Institutions

2016 – Bestowed on the developers of the VRA Core 4.0.

Whom would you like to recognize for a specific contribution to our field? Please consider nominating a worthy colleague or specific achievement for these prestigious awards.

An e-mail of intent or query to any Awards Committee members can set the process in motion or you may complete this new scouting form at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Sd1Me6U_81HHm68HZW05YLVEXSYBwqvhkpbK4OvEdQo/viewform?edit_requested=true.

Once you describe the nature of the nominee’s achievements, the Awards Committee can work with you to procure the nominee’s curriculum vitae and letters of support for the nomination. Nomination documents will be shared with the recipients and retained in the Association Archives. 

We look forward to hearing from you soon to learn about the many terrific efforts happening within the Visual Resources Association and across the broader profession.

The nomination letters and letters of support for the 2022 Distinguished Service Award and the 2022 Nancy DeLaurier Award are due by December 7^th, 2021. 

Please contact Maureen Burns ([log in to unmask]) or any member of the Awards Committee: http://vraweb.org/about/committees/awards-committee/. We would be very happy to help with your ideas and the process.

Notes:

Recommendations from the Awards Committee are subject to approval by the VRA Executive Board.

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.