The Visual Resources Association (VRA) has just released a White Paper on the management and use of image resources: Advocating for Visual Resources Management in Educational and Cultural Institutions.

The paper encourages "holistic thinking" about meeting institutional and individual image user needs in educational/cultural institutions. It identifies six strategic areas for future planning: multiple image sources; integrating personal and institutional collections; social computing and collaborative projects; life-cycle continuum of image assets and their description; rights and copyright compliance; and visual literacy.