Maureen
Burns & Jeanette Mills, Co-Chairs
Education Committee
13 June 2002
Mid-Year Report
Current Charge:
Working within VRA and with other organizations to identify and develop educational
opportunities for VRA members.
Accomplishments:
With funding provided by the VRA Board, the Education Committee made $100.00 available
to each chapter chair to take advantage of the two leadership workshops at the
Saint Louis Conference. Letters were sent to each chapter chair in November 2001,
and the recipients were notified in late January 2002. The following applied for
and were awarded funds:
| Astrid
Otey, Miami University, Great Lakes Michelle Murray, Sarah Lawrence College, Greater New York Giovanna Jackson, California State, Chico, Northern California Jane Darcovich, University of Illinois at Chicago, Midwest Jeanette Mills, University of Washington, Pacific Rim Mark Pompelia, Rice University, Texas Maureen Burns, University of California, Irvine, Southern California |
Letters were sent to VRA chapter chairs in February 2002 asking them to invite local ARLIS, MCN, ALA, and SAA members to their chapter meetings and report back to the VRA Board the outcome of those meetings. Many chapters are already doing this.
Karin Whalen prioritized results of the VRA Education Survey for the board in terms of educational needs to help with planning future workshops and topics. Per our members requests and in order:
| Digital
image projects Database development Digital imaging technology Image cataloging Database software and Web VR Advanced Classifications systems Digital media storage Copyright Subject indexing Cores and MARC Digital image teaching Controlled vocabularies Collection development References resources Strategic planning VR basic Finding Aids Storage Standards |
Karin continued to gather
member input on conference workshop and session ideas after the completion of
the Education Survey. These ideas already were sent to Mark Pompelia and Jeanne
Keefe, but they are listed here for reference:
| Workshop
on software packages Regional people who could train in software and systems Four Hour Digital Licensing Seminar How to find scholarly websites Management Classification systems How, when, why to keep statistics How to manage an imaging project Getty vocabulary session Copyright New economic models or how to survive when you have been downsized Facilities planning How to revitalize your career in mid- career Best practices in new technology How to run a committee meeting Report writing |
The committee met at the
annual conference in Saint Louis (25 March 2002). We had an excellent discussion
of current and future projects. A post-meeting summary was quickly provided
by outgoing committee chair, Karin Whalen, and this mid-year report is heavily
based on her summary.
Recruited new members for the committee. Karin Whalen has become the liaison
between the VRA Education Committee and the ARLIS/VRA Joint Task Force on Education.
Sponsored four workshop proposals for the VRA 2003 Conference:
| Dealing
With Difficult People In The Library And The Visual Resources Collection Negotiating Power, Influencing Skills for Positive Outcomes Dealing with Difficult Behaviors. |
Goals:
Start a process for regularly gathering information about regional and national
educational activities offered by allied organizations. We would like to make
this information available to the VRA membership via a website.
Create a web form for membership feedback about educational needs, and post
notices every three to six months to VRA-L about this form and our desire for
member input.
Sponsor at least two workshops at the VRA 2003 Conference.
Offer $100.00 to each chapter chair to facilitate workshop attendance at the
2003 VRA Annual Conference in Houston, TX. Initial and follow-up emails will
be used to insure chapter chairs are fully aware of this opportunity; email
to VRA-L will also help to advertise this benefit of being a chapter chair.
We will especially target the three chapters who did not participate in 2002:
Upstate New York, Greater Philadelphia, and Mid-Atlantic.
Maintain contact with chapter chairs to encourage non-member participation in
chapter activities and planning of joint meetings with chapters of allied organizations.
Continue contact with allied organizations in the hopes of developing collaborative
programs, and invite representatives of these organizations to attend our conference.
These organizations include, but are not limited to, the Museum Computer Network,
the American Society of Archivists, the American Library Association, and ARLIS/NA.
Board Action Requested:
Consideration of our budget request (below).
Please inform the Education Committee of rules regarding committee web sites.
Specifically, do we create and maintain our own, or is this done centrally?
If the latter, please inform us of proper protocol.
At our March meeting this suggestion arose: have a leadership breakfast or meeting
where the VRA Board and chapter chairs get together at the end of the conference
to discuss future plans.
Budget Request:
$1,200.00 total
|
$100 per VRA Chapter
to attend VRA annual conference leadership workshops (might need additional
funds if new chapters are created) |
$1,000.00 |
|
| Stipend
to pay the committee web site developer |
$200.00 |
List of Committee/Chapter/Task
Force Members:
Margo Ballantyne, Slide Curator, Lewis and Clark College
Marcia Focht, Curator of Visual Resources, Binghamton University
Carolyn Lucarelli, Assistant Slide Librarian, The Pennsylvania State University
Joy Robinson, Slide Curator, Winthrop University
Jenni Rodda, Manager, Visual Resources Collections, IFA/NYU
Susan Sanders, Curator, University of Memphis
Leah Theis, Visual Resources Curator, Cornell University
Betha Whitlow, Curator of Visual Resources, Washington University
Karin Whalen, Visual Resources Curator, Reed College,
Liaison to the ARLIS/VRA Joint Task Force on Education
Respectfully submitted,
Maureen Burns, Humanities Curator, University of California, Irvine
Jeanette Mills, Director of Visual Services, University of Washington