VRA 2015 slides Burns
Presented by Maureen Burns at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, March 10-15, 2015, in Denver, Colorado. Session 5: What Do We Do With All These Slides? Case Studies ORGANIZER: Dawn Feavyour, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL MODERATOR: Maureen Burns, IMAGinED Consulting, CA PRESENTERS: Maureen Burns, IMAGinED Consulting, CA Dawn Feavyour, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL Karen Kessel, Sonoma State University, CA Randi Millman-Brown, Ithaca College, NY Andrea Schuler, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Marsha Taichman, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY "What do we do with all these slides?" is a question frequently encountered by VRA members during the last several years. Various case studies, representing different scenarios, stages, processes and outcomes, will address this question, offering suggestions that may include archiving, digitizing, disposing, and/or recycling of 35 mm slides, in addition to ideas for re-purposing the spaces left behind by slide collections.
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- 1. On the Astonishing Popularity of Slides: The UC Irvine Dispersal Maureen Burns IMAGinED Consulting
- 2. Background VRC closed in 2009 Equipment Split Between Art History & Studio Art Departments Reference Books Dispersed 325,000 Slides Moved from Humanities to the Arts with Access Supervised by Arts Media Lab Staff Primary Faculty Allowed to Choose 1,000 Images Each to be Scanned (outsourced)
- 3. Contact How to Deliver Digital Images through Old Database & Web Interface? Assist Led to Opportunity to Offer Help Dispersing the Slide Collection Met with Art Department Chair and Arts Media Center Director to Strategize Charge was to do “Whatever it Takes to Keep Analog Media Out of the Landfill.”
- 4. Action Started Locally Expanded Out Into the Community UCI: Faculty, Arts, Gallery, Library, East Asian Department (no Students) UC VR Group & Other UC Departments VRA and ARLIS/NA CA Chapters SoCal Archives & Museums Creative Re-Use LA Culture Net Listserv
- 5. Adventures E-mail Inundation Phone Calls Galore Logistics: UCI Parking, Loading, & Transporting The Active Life - Muscle & Manpower Multiple LA Area Rendezvous Space Limits at Re-Use Facility
- 6. Issues Time, Changed Minds, No Shows Recipient Profiles & Hesitations Slide Refiling & Missing Slides Surprise Walking Wounded Donations Digital Image Requests Campus Policy & Procedures Copyright Issues Campus Counsel VRA IPR Committee Verbal Explanations
- 7. Surprises Art History Uninterested, Arts Interested Library Wanted to help More, but Hands Tied Local Institutions Hesitancy Creative Re-Use Grateful So Many Responses from the Public, Need Could Not Be Met, UCLA Handoff
- 8. Next Steps Handshake Compensation & Holdout Metadata Salvage Operation Work with STMTF to Iron Out Issues & Provide Resources for Others Publish Case Study
- 9. References VRA White Paper Advocating for Visual Resources Management http://vraweb.org/wp- content/uploads/2013/02/vra_white_paper. pdf CA Preservation Assistance Program http://calpreservation.org/ Long Beach Depot for Creative Reuse http://thelongbeachdepot.org/
- 10. Fond Farewell
Editor's Notes
- Presenter contact: moaburns@gmail.com or 310-489-3792.
- Institution’s Web site: http://uci.edu/
- For information about the LA Culture Net, see https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/laculturenet/info
- When you dismantle a collection that you have worked on for 17 years, there were painful moments. Moreover, you experience a deep sense of what is being lost. I urge you to be proactive and to increase institutional awareness of the great value of your collections and services now.