Visual Resources in the Digital Age

Maureen Burns, VRA President

moaburns@gmail.com http://imageminders.net/

  International Association of Image Media Professionals

  30th Anniversary in 2012

  Affiliated with CAA, ARLIS/NA, SECAC, & soon SAH

  Welcome Collaborators in Archives, Libraries, Museums, Vendors

 Educational Opportunity

 Develop Professionally

 Networking

 Brainstorming

 Services

 Advocacy

  Slides to Digital

  Physical to Virtual Spaces

  Budget Cuts

  Changing Job Market

  Different Skill Sets

  Declining Membership

  Ubiquitous Images

  Infrastructure • Human Expertise •  Facilities •  Technologies

 Content Acquisition •  Broad Range of

Content •  Build Collections

Collaboratively

 Services • Curation • Access •  Preservation

“Collaborative production, where people have to coordinate with one another to get anything done, is considerably harder than simple sharing, but the results can be more profound.”

“We, collectively, aren’t just the source of the [cognitive] surplus; we are also the people designing its use, by our participation and by the things we expect of one another as we wrestle together with our new connectedness.”

 Content Curators, Producers, & Disseminators

 Systems Builders   IP Rights Advisors  Guides, Facilitators, &

Instructional Partners  Observers  Collaborators  Organizational

Experimenters

  Increase Users Awareness of New Services

 Track Usage

 Communicate to Administration

 VRA White Paper http://www.vraweb.org/resources/general/vra_white_paper.pdf

  Keep Pace with Current Trends to Anticipate Educational Needs & Be Proactive

  Experiment, Adjust, & Learn from Experience

  Reach Out to Partners & Build Functional Working Relationships

  Physical & Virtual Knowledge Sharing, Communication, & Collaboration

  Joint Problem Solving & Future Planning

  ACRL 2010 Top Trends in Academic Libraries http://crln.acrl.org/content/71/6/286.short

  ACRL Visual Literacy Competency Standards http://acrlvislitstandards.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/ acrlirig_vlstandards_draft_201102096.pdf

  ARL New Roles for New Times: Digital Curation for Preservation. http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/nrnt_digital_ curation17mar11.pdf

  Educause, Horizon Report 2011 http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/HR2011.pdf

By Peter Brantley

“The success of libraries is not to be counted by the number of books, either digital or paper, held by libraries or the number of pretty pictures that libraries can put online. Libraries are successful to the extent that they can bridge communities and can leverage the diversity of the quest, the research, and the discovery. . . . They will become the architects of collaboration.”

  John Trendler (SoCal Chair)

  Karen Kessel (NoCal Chair)

  Jackie Spafford (host)

  Christine Fristsch-Hammes (host)

  Greg Reser

  Ryan Brubacher