Call for Proposals: Image Resources Interest Group at ALA Annual (Orland0, FL)

UPDATE: The deadline is June 1, but they may take proposals after that date. Contact Stephen Patton (below) if you are interested.

Call for Proposals! IRIG Lightning Round Talks At ALA Annual 2016:

Proposals are solicited for lightning round talks to be held during the ACRL Image Resources Interest Group (IRIG) Business Meeting from 1-2:30pm on Saturday, June 25, 2016 at the ALA Annual Conference in Orlando. Presenters will speak for five minutes to showcase their topic followed by a brief Q & A with the audience. A moderator will keep talks on time and facilitate discussion. Presenters are encouraged to bring handouts but a projector should be available.

Suggested topics include:

• Image metadata
• Project planning with images
• Image collections across systems and platforms
• Collaboration with academic departments/community outreach
• Visual literacy standards implementation
• Learning objects for visual literacy instruction

We are interested in all aspects of image resources and look forward to varied presentations and creative projects, including projects in their beginning stages.

Please submit proposals or questions to Stephen Patton at Stephen.Patton@indstate.edu by June 1, 2016.

Proposals should include the following information:

Name
Institution
Address
City/State/Zip
Phone
Email
Proposal Title
Brief proposal description (100-150 words)

Submitters will be notified by June 3, 2016. (Early submissions will receive a prompt review.)

https://www.eventscribe.com/2016/ala-annual/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&PresentationID=143170

See the IRIG website for more information:

https://sites.google.com/site/acrlirig/

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Get published in the VRA Bulletin

Hey all – just a reminder that you can publish in the VRA Bulletin! The deadline for submission for the summer issue is June 30, and if you give a presentation (say, at the ArLiSNAP/VREPS 2016 Virtual Conference), you can easily transform that into an article. Submission details and guidelines below:

The VRA Bulletin provides a professional forum for the discussion and dissemination of ideas and information directly related the the field of visual resources. We accept feature length articles (usually about 5,000 words); reviews on books, tools, resources (c. 1,000 words); opinion pieces (c. 3,000 words); and association news. The length doesn’t matter since it is online and we encourage authors to take full advantage of being online by adding images, links, etc. The only thing to consider is download time if the file gets too big. I suggest looking at past issue articles to get a feel for it.

The home page is at http://online.vraweb.org/vrab/ where the most recent issue can be found and potential authors can submit articles to the online system from there.

Authors should also review the submission guidelines at http://online.vraweb.org/vrab/submguide.html for more guidance about fonts, spacing, formatting etc.

The editors are always happy to help in any way:
Maureen Burns, Content Editor, moaburns@gmail.com (310-489-3792)

Hannah Marshall, Production Editor, marshall.hannah.marie@gmail.com

Call for Proposals: ArLiSNAP/VREPS 2016 Virtual Conference

ArLiSNAP (Art Library Students and New ARLIS Professionals) and VREPS (Visual Resources Emerging Professionals and Students) are joining forces to host a virtual conference this May! The conference, Future Perspectives in Art Librarianship: Digital Projects and Initiatives, will take place at 12pm CST May 21, 2016. The conference will consist of a keynote speaker followed by 1.5 to 2 hours of presentations by students and new professionals. This is an excellent opportunity for those who cannot be physically present at our annual conferences to share projects and ideas.

Our keynote speaker will be Sara Rubinow. Sara is a Metadata Specialist in the Metadata Services Unit of NYPL Labs, The New York Public Library’s digital innovation unit. Prior to NYPL, Sara worked on projects involving the collections database, digital initiatives, and printed matter at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. Sara will discuss her role at NYPL Labs and showcase initiatives intended to engage developers, scholars, artists, and the general public in exploring—and transforming—NYPL’s digital resources and open data sets.

We are looking for students and new professionals with an interest in art librarianship or visual resources management to present their work. The theme for this year’s conference is focused on digital projects and initiatives. Have you been working on a project using technology in a new way? Do you have thoughts to share on topics such as metadata and visual resources, copyright and the arts, digital collections, or visual literacy? Would you like to share your work with the ARLIS and VRA communities? Submit your proposal, and add your voice to our discussion on the future of the field!

Requirements:

1. Presenters must be MLIS students or new professionals with fewer than five years of experience in the field.
2. Presentations will be between ten and fifteen minutes in length.
3. Presenters need to be available for a live presentation and brief Q&A session on the afternoon of Saturday, May 21, 2016. Presenters need to be available for a practice session the week before to test equipment. A date and time for the practice session will be determined at a later date.

Submit your proposal via this link by Friday, April 1st.

If you have any questions about this event, please don’t hesitate to contact Breanne Crumpton, ArLiSNAP Conference Planning Liaison, at becrumpton [at] gmail [dot] com.

 

Volunteer in Seattle!

If you’re attending Seattle, consider signing up as a volunteer for the registration desk or one of the events. If it’s your first or even second or third conference, volunteering is a great way to meet people without the awkwardness of trying to introduce yourself to strangers. The joint VRA-ARLIS conference will be much bigger than VRA conferences, so volunteering is even more crucial to meeting other members and, or course, meeting counterparts in ARLIS. Plus, some of my most fun experiences at VRA have been at the registration desk, like the year all of our registration materials got lost in the mail and we were frantically making badges at the desk!

Volunteering is a nice bridge to getting more involved with VRA, as you’ll meet both new and more seasoned members. It’s also a good break from sitting in sessions all day. You can sign up here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1sKpBwTlffB1nPPefBNj-RaYnoYG6FsKq0HzI75a5y98/edit#gid=0, or email VRA Secretary Jasmine Burns at burnsjas@indiana.edu. We look forward to meeting you in Seattle!

Scholarships for SEI 2016

The Samuel H. Kress Foundation has generously sponsored six scholarships for SEI 2016, which will be held June 7-10, 2016, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The six Kress Scholarship recipients will each receive $833 to cover tuition, accommodations, and minor incidentals. Kress Scholarship applications are due by Friday, February 12, 2016. Recipients will be notified no later than Friday, March 11, 2016. Following the workshop, each Kress Scholarship recipient will be asked to write a report detailing how they benefitted from SEI and the scholarship.

This intensive workshop is designed to serve a wide range of professionals eager to learn about new technologies and update job skills: museum staff, VR curators, librarians, archivists, and all those managing digital image media. SEI provides new professionals, current library school students and more experienced staff the opportunity to stay current in a rapidly changing field, as well as significant networking opportunities.

Kress Scholarship recipients will each receive $833 to cover tuition, accommodations, and minor incidentals. Kress Scholarship applications are due by Friday, February 12, 2016. Recipients will be notified no later than Friday, March 11, 2016. Following the workshop, each Kress Scholarship recipient will be asked to write a report detailing how they benefitted from SEI and the scholarship.

Applicants for the 2016 Kress Scholarship should submit a resume or curriculum vita and a brief essay describing the effect attending SEI would have on their studies or their careers. All applications will be evaluated by SEI co-chairs based on the criteria established for the award and any additional directions from the Kress Foundation staff. More information is also available on the website. Submit your application materials via e-mail in a single document (PDF preferred), using the following file naming convention: LAST NAME_FIRST NAME_KRESS2016

Please e-mail your application to SEI Co-Chair Greta Bahnemann at: bahne002@umn.edu

Look for regular SEI registration to open in mid-January.

Call for proposals for VREPS session at ARLIS/NA+VRA 2016 Joint Conference

Visual Resources Emerging Professionals and Students (VREPS) is putting together a 2 hour workshop on professional development covering topics like, What kinds of internships to look for during graduate school, how to seek out continuing education opportunities while working full time, becoming more involved in professional organizations, and deciding whether you need or want an additional graduate degree.

We’re looking for up to four speakers to lead the workshop, and we hope to include speakers from both VRA and ARLIS. If you have a topic you’d like to talk about, please get in touch with Marie Elia (eliam@buffalo.edu) or Molly Schoen (schoenm@umich.edu) by June 10.

If you’ve never presented or led a workshop, this is the perfect opportunity to jump in!

Hack Your MLIS Program: Visual Resources Librarianship

Reblogging this from our comrades over at arlisnap.org — an excellent post on getting into the Visual Resources profession by Courtney L. Baron.

[ArLiSNAP]

Hi Arlisnappers! After a yearlong absence, I am back on the blog as a feature post writer and excited to be a part of the ArLiSNAP team once again. I recently graduated with my MLIS and I currently work as the Director of Visual Resources at the University of Georgia.

In April 2014, I shared my tips for hacking your MLIS program to focus on art librarianship. Now I’m back with a better-late-than-never follow-up on how I hacked my MLIS program to prepare for my career in visual resources librarianship. We have discussed how to plan your coursework so you are prepared to manage digital collections before, and this post will focus specifically on what you need to manage visual resources collections.

Visual Resources Center, Lamar Dodd School of Art, University of Georgia. Image courtesy of Courtney Baron.

What is visual resources librarianship?

Visual resources librarianship is a bit…

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2015 Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management

Places are still available for the 2015 Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management (SEI ), to be held June 9-12 at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. http://seiworkshop.org/

This intensive workshop features a curriculum addressing the latest requirements of today’s visual resources and image management professionals. This year’s topics and experienced instructors include:

• Intellectual property rights: Nancy Sims (Copyright Program Librarian, University of Minnesota)
• Metadata overview: Gretchen Gueguen (Data Services Coordinator, Digital Public Library of America)
• Embedded metadata: Greg Reser (Metadata Specialist, University of California, San Diego Library)
• Digital life-cycle: Liz Gushee (Digital Collections Librarian, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas, Austin)
• Digital preservation: Nicole Finzer (Visual Resources Librarian, Digital Collections Dept, Northwestern University)
• Project management: Angela Waarala (Digital Collections Project Manager, University of Illinois Library), Nicole Finzer, Liz Gushee
• Digital humanities: Jeannine Keefer (Visual Resources Librarian, University of Richmond)

SEI is suited to information professionals new to the field and more experienced professionals eager to respond to fast-changing technological advancements and job requirements. Recent attendees said they definitely would recommend SEI to others: “Good experience and a great way to interact with others doing what I do.” Another wrote ”SEI showed me the range of roles in the field, including what I might encounter in a different position.”

Discounted registration for members of VRA or ARLIS/NA is $595.

Multiple internships: Lincoln Center, New York, NY

The Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has posted multiple internship opportunities, including one focused in archives digitization and another in archives record management. Visit their internship page for more information.

http://www.aboutlincolncenter.org/about/internships/available-internships

Internship Opportunity: Born-Digital Processing Internship at the Bancroft

https://bancroftdigitalcollectionsunit.wordpress.com/2015/03/24/bancroft-summer-archival-internship-2015/

The Bancroft Library University of California Berkeley

SUMMER ARCHIVAL INTERNSHIP 2015

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Who is Eligible to Apply

Graduate students currently attending an ALA accredited library and information science program who have taken coursework in archival administration and/or digital libraries.

Born-Digital Processing Internship Duties

The Born-Digital Processing Intern will be involved with all aspects of digital collections work, including inventory control of digital accessions, collection appraisal, processing, description, preservation, and provisioning for access. Under the supervision of the Digital Archivist, the intern will analyze the status of a born-digital manuscript or photograph collection and propose and carry out a processing plan to arrange and provide access to the collection. The intern will gain experience in appraisal, arrangement, and description of born-digital materials. She/he will use digital forensics software and hardware to work with disk images and execute processes to identify duplicate files and sensitive/confidential material. The intern will create an access copy of the collection and, if necessary, normalize access files to a standard format. The intern will generate an EAD-encoded finding aid in The Bancroft Library’s instance of ArchivesSpace for presentation on the Online Archive of California (OAC). Lastly, the intern will complete a full collection-level MARC catalog record for the collection using the University Library’s Millennium cataloging system. All work will occur in the Bancroft Technical Services Department, and interns will attend relevant staff meetings.

Duration:

6 weeks (minimum 120 hours), June 29 – August 7, 2015 (dates are somewhat flexible)

NOTE: The internship is not funded, however, it may be possible to arrange for course credit for the internship. Interns will be responsible for living expenses related to the internship (housing, transportation, food, etc.).

Application Procedure:

The competitive selection process is based on an evaluation of the following application materials:

Cover letter & Resume
Current graduate school transcript (unofficial)
Photocopy of driver’s license (proof of residency if out-of-state school)
Letter of recommendation from a graduate school faculty member
Sample of the applicant’s academic writing or a completed finding aid

All application materials must be postmarked on or before Friday, April 17, 2015 and either mailed to:

Mary Elings
Head of Digital Collections
The Bancroft Library
University of California Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720.

or emailed to melings [at] library.berkeley.edu, with “Born Digital Processing Internship” in the subject line.

Selected candidates will be notified of decisions by May 1, 2015.