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New VRA White Paper: Advocating for Visual Resources Management in Educational and Cultural Institutions
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.
Curricular Uses of Visual Materials: A Research-Driven Process for Improving Institutional Sources of Curricular Support
At Carleton College students work with visual materials in all parts of the curriculum. So how do you make sure they get the technical support they need? An extensive research study of faculty and students led to a new coordinated support model. Andrea Lisa Nixon, Heather Tompkins and Paula Lackie explain how they got it done.
