Visual Resources Association Annual Conference
March 24-27, 2020, Baltimore*
Session: Incorporating Diversity in our Workplace: All are Welcome, but How Do We Get There?
Moderator: Andrew Wang
Presenters: Heidi Raatz, Cindy Frank, and Meghan Rubenstein
*Baltimore conference canceled. Presented as a webinar June 2, 2020
Leveraging Wikipedia and Libraries as Agents of Inclusion and Visibility for ...Michael David MILLER
2018 Anna Norris Distinguished Alumni Series with the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University.
Title: Leveraging Wikipedia and Libraries as Agents of Inclusion and Visibility for Marginalized Communities: Librarians, Drag Queens and the LGBTQ+ Community of Québec
NOTABLE SOCIAL STUDIES TRADE BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 2014hildebka
This slideshow presents the Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2014. Outstanding books in the area of social studies are chosen annually by a committee sponsored by the Children's Book Council and the National Council of Social Studies. Karen Hildebrand, a member of the committee, prepared this powerpoint for conference presentations and professional development opportunities.
[TASL] Annual Conference for 2010
http://www.discoveret.org/tasl/
When: November 4 – 6, 2010
Where: Murfreesboro, TN
Murfreesboro Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center
Embassy Suites Murfreesboro Hotel & Conference Center
1200 Conference Center Blvd Murfreesboro, TN 37129
Group/convention code [SLM]
What: This year’s theme is “Get Connected”
CONNECTING WITH THE COMMUNITY AND COMMUNITY LEADERS
CONNECTING WITH YOUR PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION
CONNECTING WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES
CONNECTING WITH AUTHORS AND ADVOCATES
CONNECTING WITH VENDORS
CONNECTING WITH TASL LEADERS
Leveraging Wikipedia and Libraries as Agents of Inclusion and Visibility for ...Michael David MILLER
2018 Anna Norris Distinguished Alumni Series with the Department of Romance and Classical Studies at Michigan State University.
Title: Leveraging Wikipedia and Libraries as Agents of Inclusion and Visibility for Marginalized Communities: Librarians, Drag Queens and the LGBTQ+ Community of Québec
NOTABLE SOCIAL STUDIES TRADE BOOKS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE 2014hildebka
This slideshow presents the Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People, 2014. Outstanding books in the area of social studies are chosen annually by a committee sponsored by the Children's Book Council and the National Council of Social Studies. Karen Hildebrand, a member of the committee, prepared this powerpoint for conference presentations and professional development opportunities.
[TASL] Annual Conference for 2010
http://www.discoveret.org/tasl/
When: November 4 – 6, 2010
Where: Murfreesboro, TN
Murfreesboro Embassy Suites Hotel and Conference Center
Embassy Suites Murfreesboro Hotel & Conference Center
1200 Conference Center Blvd Murfreesboro, TN 37129
Group/convention code [SLM]
What: This year’s theme is “Get Connected”
CONNECTING WITH THE COMMUNITY AND COMMUNITY LEADERS
CONNECTING WITH YOUR PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION
CONNECTING WITH YOUR COLLEAGUES
CONNECTING WITH AUTHORS AND ADVOCATES
CONNECTING WITH VENDORS
CONNECTING WITH TASL LEADERS
"Being a More Visible Support for LGBTQ* Communities – What Some Canadian Libraries are Doing to Promote LGBTQ* Services, Inclusivity, and Community Engagement" is Part 2 of "Nowhere to Turn, Nowhere to Go," representing a greatly expanded update from the previous version.
Part 1 is a separate SlideShare file entitled "Library Service and Collection Policies and Strategies for Supporting LGBTQ* Communities."
The core conviction is the same as for Part 1: Librarians are catalysts for social change and personal transformation.
Part 2 shows in vibrant visual images what some Canadian libraries -- post-secondary and public -- are doing to support and promote LGBTQ* services.
It also challenges viewers who are library service providers -- and at the same time it informs viewers who are library service users -- to address the question of: If there aren’t any now, how could you create LGBTQ* inclusive programs and services at your library?
Suggestions for promotion and advocacy to support LGBTQ* communities are addressed, but they are just suggestions. Visuals and narratives in this presentation show what 15 Canadian libraries in these two sectors are doing to support LGTBQ* populations, from specialized collections and reading lists to Pride parade engagement to the creation of public library GSAs to myriad events, workshops, guest speakers, special celebrations, collaborations and partnerships, and library volunteer staff groups.
Washington State American Indian Educator's Conference March 2012. Project to share culturally relevant youth resources for Northwest Coastal and Inland Plateau tribes as well as Pan-Indian and Urban experiences.
Resources for middle grade and teen titles with diverse contentSharon Rawlins
Handout of resources to accompany presentation entitled "Deconstructing the Debate about the Lack of Diversity in Young Adult Literature" at the 8th Annual Adolescent Summer Literacy Institute, William Paterson University, July 7, 2014
Community collections: Exploring three distinct approaches to collaboration a...jdgwynn
The digital projects unit of the UNCG University Libraries has in recent years been involved in three different grant-funded projects designed to increase community outreach and participation in our work. The LSTA-funded “Textiles, Teachers, and Troops” initiative was a large digitization project that involved collaboration between all five universities and colleges in Greensboro plus the Greensboro Historical Museum and the Greensboro Public Library. The “Community Collections” project was funded through a UNCG Community-Based Research Grant and involved working with local institutions to identify unique and “hidden” materials, and to test innovative filed digitization techniques. The IMLS-funded “DGHi Explorers” program expands on “Community Collections” through collaboration with Greensboro’s Hayes-Taylor YMCA in its work with diverse and underserved communities, and involved working directly with at-risk youth in their home communities. This presentation will explore the successes and challenges of these initiatives and the lessons learned through three very different collaborative models.
http://entrelib.org/conferences/2013-conference/scheduled-presenters/
In this session the second cohort of Academic and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Scholars facilitate a dialogue on diversity issues that impact equity and inclusivity in the library and information field and services. Four diversity issues will be introduced through “ignite”presentations, during which experiences, perspectives, challenges and strategies and best practices related to the issues will be discussed, and will conclude with group summaries of strategies. Using a critical lens and in conversation with these recent MLIS graduates (16-20), diversity concerns and barriers in the profession will be uncovered. This proposed session is an exercise in collaborative learning and in connecting theory and practice around diversity and libraries. - Jennifer Herring, Mari Noguchi, and Touger Vang, ACE Scholars
Global + Personal: Undergraduate Study Abroad Experiences through the Len...sophielam
This presentation explores the idea of cosmopolitan communication, a world-oriented, ethical approach to interacting with local and distant others, in the online reflections of 30 undergraduate students from American universities participating in globally-based study abroad programs across Latin America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia.
Participants chronicled their semester-long journeys for audiences of economically disadvantaged American schoolchildren using an online blogging platform and, to a lesser extent, through videoconferencing applications. Findings from the study show tensions between narratives where sojourners’ constructed flexible ideas of self and personal identity as they navigated multiple contexts and spaces of belonging while abroad, and their predominantly static descriptions of cultural difference and plurality within the confines of nation-state. Implications for policy and research include assessing the tradeoffs of international and global education curriculum that prioritize ideas of openness, mobility, and hospitality over critical articulations of cultural difference, self-reflexivity, and self-implication.
An ‘open source’ networked identity - On young people’s construction and co-construction of identity on social network sites
Paper presentation at: “Youth 2.0 – Affordances, Uses and Risks of Social Media”, University of Antwerp, March 21th 2013
Casting a Wide Net: The Library's Role in Transforming Partnerships Across Ca...JenniferRaye
Sally Neal, Associate Dean of Bulter University Libraries, presents from the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference in Baltimore, MD.
"Being a More Visible Support for LGBTQ* Communities – What Some Canadian Libraries are Doing to Promote LGBTQ* Services, Inclusivity, and Community Engagement" is Part 2 of "Nowhere to Turn, Nowhere to Go," representing a greatly expanded update from the previous version.
Part 1 is a separate SlideShare file entitled "Library Service and Collection Policies and Strategies for Supporting LGBTQ* Communities."
The core conviction is the same as for Part 1: Librarians are catalysts for social change and personal transformation.
Part 2 shows in vibrant visual images what some Canadian libraries -- post-secondary and public -- are doing to support and promote LGBTQ* services.
It also challenges viewers who are library service providers -- and at the same time it informs viewers who are library service users -- to address the question of: If there aren’t any now, how could you create LGBTQ* inclusive programs and services at your library?
Suggestions for promotion and advocacy to support LGBTQ* communities are addressed, but they are just suggestions. Visuals and narratives in this presentation show what 15 Canadian libraries in these two sectors are doing to support LGTBQ* populations, from specialized collections and reading lists to Pride parade engagement to the creation of public library GSAs to myriad events, workshops, guest speakers, special celebrations, collaborations and partnerships, and library volunteer staff groups.
Washington State American Indian Educator's Conference March 2012. Project to share culturally relevant youth resources for Northwest Coastal and Inland Plateau tribes as well as Pan-Indian and Urban experiences.
Resources for middle grade and teen titles with diverse contentSharon Rawlins
Handout of resources to accompany presentation entitled "Deconstructing the Debate about the Lack of Diversity in Young Adult Literature" at the 8th Annual Adolescent Summer Literacy Institute, William Paterson University, July 7, 2014
Community collections: Exploring three distinct approaches to collaboration a...jdgwynn
The digital projects unit of the UNCG University Libraries has in recent years been involved in three different grant-funded projects designed to increase community outreach and participation in our work. The LSTA-funded “Textiles, Teachers, and Troops” initiative was a large digitization project that involved collaboration between all five universities and colleges in Greensboro plus the Greensboro Historical Museum and the Greensboro Public Library. The “Community Collections” project was funded through a UNCG Community-Based Research Grant and involved working with local institutions to identify unique and “hidden” materials, and to test innovative filed digitization techniques. The IMLS-funded “DGHi Explorers” program expands on “Community Collections” through collaboration with Greensboro’s Hayes-Taylor YMCA in its work with diverse and underserved communities, and involved working directly with at-risk youth in their home communities. This presentation will explore the successes and challenges of these initiatives and the lessons learned through three very different collaborative models.
http://entrelib.org/conferences/2013-conference/scheduled-presenters/
In this session the second cohort of Academic and Cultural Enrichment (ACE) Scholars facilitate a dialogue on diversity issues that impact equity and inclusivity in the library and information field and services. Four diversity issues will be introduced through “ignite”presentations, during which experiences, perspectives, challenges and strategies and best practices related to the issues will be discussed, and will conclude with group summaries of strategies. Using a critical lens and in conversation with these recent MLIS graduates (16-20), diversity concerns and barriers in the profession will be uncovered. This proposed session is an exercise in collaborative learning and in connecting theory and practice around diversity and libraries. - Jennifer Herring, Mari Noguchi, and Touger Vang, ACE Scholars
Global + Personal: Undergraduate Study Abroad Experiences through the Len...sophielam
This presentation explores the idea of cosmopolitan communication, a world-oriented, ethical approach to interacting with local and distant others, in the online reflections of 30 undergraduate students from American universities participating in globally-based study abroad programs across Latin America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and East Asia.
Participants chronicled their semester-long journeys for audiences of economically disadvantaged American schoolchildren using an online blogging platform and, to a lesser extent, through videoconferencing applications. Findings from the study show tensions between narratives where sojourners’ constructed flexible ideas of self and personal identity as they navigated multiple contexts and spaces of belonging while abroad, and their predominantly static descriptions of cultural difference and plurality within the confines of nation-state. Implications for policy and research include assessing the tradeoffs of international and global education curriculum that prioritize ideas of openness, mobility, and hospitality over critical articulations of cultural difference, self-reflexivity, and self-implication.
An ‘open source’ networked identity - On young people’s construction and co-construction of identity on social network sites
Paper presentation at: “Youth 2.0 – Affordances, Uses and Risks of Social Media”, University of Antwerp, March 21th 2013
Casting a Wide Net: The Library's Role in Transforming Partnerships Across Ca...JenniferRaye
Sally Neal, Associate Dean of Bulter University Libraries, presents from the Association of College and Research Libraries Conference in Baltimore, MD.
NCompass Live - January 29, 2020
http://nlc.nebraska.gov/ncompasslive/
Innovation encompasses far more than technology. One of the most exciting trends in 21st century libraries is the emphasis on restructuring and reinventing our roles in our communities. A huge part of this discussion revolves around the term "Community Engagement". And while this sounds grand and fancy, things often get blurry when we are pressed to define it, implement it, and (the most daunting of all) measure it.
It’s time to cut through ambiguity and put concrete parameters around this evasive topic. This discussion will center around the following questions about community engagement: Who, What, When, Where, Why, and HOW?
Participants will leave with a clear definition of Community Engagement, along with the framework for how to build a Community Engagement plan. One size doesn’t fit all. Your library is uniquely special and to honor this fact, this interactive hour will include brainstorming about what’s right for your library and community. This discussion will be supported by concrete examples and case studies from libraries who have implemented successful community engagement plans.
This conversation is for everyone in the public library. The secret to effective community engagement involves the whole team; we all have an important part to play.
Presenter: Erica Rose, Library Science Faculty/Program Coordinator, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
A talk delivered by Lauren Smith at the Anybook Oxford Libraries Conference 2015 - Adapting for the Future: Developing Our Professions and Services, 21st July 2015
Bringing social justice behind the scenes: transforming the work of technical...NASIG
Inspired by the excellent work of the MIT Libraries, I recently advocated for, and was successful in creating, a Diversity, Inclusion, and Social Justice Working Group at the Vassar College Libraries. I co-chair this group along with my colleague, Rachel Finn, and our membership represents a cross-section of library departments, and includes a mix of managers, administrators, and unionized staff.
Though our work is currently in the beginning stages, I am interested in developing a presentation for NASIG that looks specifically at ways in which values of social justice can be integrated into the day-to-day work of technical services. Frequently, social justice initiatives are thought of as activities belonging to outreach staff, or more public-facing staff; such initiatives exist alongside the daily work of librarianship rather than being fully integrated within it. I think there are opportunities for this work to happen within the technical services sphere, but it requires taking a hard look at existing workflows and staff capacity. Much of technical services work is built around the idea of "efficiencies," but what are we sacrificing in the name of efficiency? In the name of conveniences? In the zine librarian community (in which I am active) we have standards surrounding the idea of ethical acquisitions--what would that look like if it were to be developed for technical services more broadly? In the area of collections, how could we enhance diversity and inclusion by backing out of the big deal and/or approval plans? What would the impact on technical services departments be and how would be absorb that work? In the area of vendor performance, are we ready to sever ties with corporations that aren't centering social justice in their own work?
Again, this work at Vassar is only in the early stages; however, this is a moment when Vassar College as a whole is looking very seriously at transforming the academic and residential life of our community through the work of the Engaged Pluralism Initiative. My hope is that we will be able to build on this momentum and contribute to positive changes in campus climate.
I would like the opportunity to speak about our process, enumerate our short-term goals, and talk more about our aspirations for bringing real change to existing department workflows.
Heidy Berthoud
Head of Technical Services, Vassar College
Acquisitions, cataloging, zines, and Russian studies. Frequent lurker on #critlib, #mashcat, and #radlib. Cat enthusiast.
Rachel Finn
Social Sciences Librarian, Vassar College
Radical Shared History Online Portal Work SessionItza Carbajal
This session presented at the 2017 Allied Media Conference brought attention to the fact that people continue to connect across the globe at an alarming speed. Now the possibility of using technology to connect the countless stories manifested in community archival materials feels like a click away. This dinner meetup brought together a small group of community archival repositories, archivists, developers, designers, and potential users such as researchers, artists, and educators to discuss and imagine different projects that could result in online digital archives portals.
Europeana Strategy meeting “Migration and culture: how can our past educate ...Europeana
Europeana Strategy meeting
“Migration and culture: how can our past educate our present”
on 23 & 24 May in Malta 2017. Presentation: Teaching multiculturalism by Lleif Magnussen
Digital Literacy in the Era of Fake News: Key Roles for Information Professio...Lynn Connaway
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, Heidi Julien, Michael Seadle, and Alex Kasprak. 2017. "Digital Literacy in the Era of Fake News: Key Roles for Information Professionals." Panel presented at ASIS&T 2017, 80th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Washington, DC, October 30.
Digital Literacy in the Era of Fake News: Key Roles for Information Professio...OCLC
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni, Heidi Julien, Michael Seadle, and Alex Kasprak. 2017. "Digital Literacy in the Era of Fake News: Key Roles for Information Professionals." Panel presented at ASIS&T 2017, 80th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Washington, DC, October 30.
Using a longitudinal focus group methodology to measure the value and impact ...Leo Appleton
Methodological paper delivered as part of the student forum at the 12th International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries, Oxford, UK, 31st July - 2nd August 2017
Building a Diverse Collection at the MIT LibrariesEugenia Beh
Are We Doing Enough?: Four Stories of Diversity in Library Collections
Presenters
Eugenia Beh, Electronic Resources Librarian, MIT
Jade Alburo, Librarian for Southeast Asian and Pacific Islands Studies, UCLA
Paolo Gujilde, Coordinator of Collection Development, Georgia Southern University
Rachel Keiko Stark, Manager, Library Services, Kaiser Permanente Napa/Solano County
Description
Do your collections reflect the diversity of your constituents? Are you equipped to meet the diverse needs of future users? In light of budgetary and spatial challenges, diversity in collections may not be a priority for most libraries. Yet, changing demographics practically ensures that there will be an increase in the demand for diverse materials. See how librarians from 3 different types of academic institutions and 1 medical library have been dealing with (or not) with this issue.
VRA 2023 Collections Management in Fashion and Media session. Presenter: Wen Nie Ng
The goal of the paper is to enhance the metadata standard of fashion collections by expanding the controlled vocabulary and metadata elements for Costume Core, a metadata schema designed specifically for fashion artifacts. Various techniques are employed to achieve this goal, including identifying new descriptors using word embedding similarity measurements and adding new descriptive terms for precise artifact descriptions to use when re-cataloging a university fashion collection in Costume Core. The paper also provides a sneak peek of the Model Output Confirmative Helper Application, which simplifies the vocabulary review process. Additionally, a survey was conducted to collect insights into how other fashion professionals use metadata when describing dress artifacts. The survey results reveal 1) commonly used metadata standards in the historic fashion domain; 2) sample metadata respondents use; and 3) partial potential metadata that can be appended to Costume Core, which is relevant to Virginia Tech's Oris Glisson Historic Costume and Textile Collection. The expanded Costume Core resulting from the project offers a more comprehensive way of describing fashion collection holdings/artifacts. It has the potential to be adopted by the fashion collections to produce metadata that is findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable.
VRA 2023 Adventures in Critical Cataloging session. Presenters: Sara Schumacher and Millicent Fullmer
This paper will cover the results of a research study looking at visual resources professionals' perceptions of the visual canon at their institutions and their actions confronting biases in their visual collections. This research is innovative because the "visual canon" as a concept is often evoked but rarely defined, and there has not been research into perceptions and practices that span different types of cultural heritage institutions. The researchers seek to focus on the role of the visual resources professional as a potential change-maker in confronting bias and transforming the “visual canon.” In our presentation, we will discuss the analysis of our survey and interviews around three key research questions: What barriers do visual resources professionals perceive in remedying the biases in the visual canon? What authorities, past and present, do they identify in shaping the visual canon? How do they approach teaching users to identify and critically confront these issues? We will highlight trends as well as unique concerns and solutions from our research participants and engage our audience with how these issues impact their own collections, policies, and instruction.
VRA 2023 Beyond the Classroom: Developing Image Databases for Research session. Presenter: John J. Taormina
The Medieval Kingdom of Sicily Image Database project collects historic images of the medieval monuments of South Italy, from the so-called Kingdom of Sicily dating from c. 950 to c. 1430, during the Norman, Hohenstaufen, Angevin, and early Aragonese periods. The project was begun in 2011, as part of a 3-year Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, under project investigators Caroline Bruzelius, Duke University, and William Tronzo, University of California, San Diego.
The site features over 8,000 historical images in a range of media, including drawings, paintings, engravings, photographs, and plans and elevations culled from museums, archives, and libraries in Europe and America, often from the Grand Tour, as well as from available publications. The value of the database lies in making accessible to scholars the visual documentation of changes to historical sites because the medieval monuments of South Italy have been damaged, changed, and restored on many occasions, with tombs and liturgical furnishings often destroyed, dismantled, or removed. In fact, many of the 600 monuments no longer exist, often bombed during World War II or destroyed in earthquakes, or obscured by modern buildings and urban sprawl.
VRA 2023 Archives Tools and Techniques session. Presenters: Maureen Burns and Lavinia Ciuffa
The Ernest Nash collection documents ancient Roman architecture in pre- and post-World War II Italy. What made Nash's work significant, beyond capturing the present state of the ancient Roman monuments at a volatile historical moment, was the primacy of the topographical photography and the systematic order he brought to this subject. The American Academy's Photographic Archive contributed Nash's images to an open access, interactive website called the "Urban Legacy of Ancient Rome." It reveals the city in stunning detail and uses geo-referencing to provide the viewer with a better understanding of the overall contextual and spatial logic. These Nash images and metadata are also IIIF compatible. As the Academy continues to digitize and describe the full collection of about 30,000 images, thanks to the generous support of the Kress Foundation, a new partnership has developed with Archivision and vrcHost. Current high quality digital photographs of the same ancient Roman monuments are being added to compare with the historical images documenting architectural changes--whether conserved, restored, altered, reconstructed, re-sited or destroyed. This presentation will provide a progress report about what it takes to move new digital photography into IIIF and the various tools available for close examination and presentation. Finding ways to provide ready access and juxtapose historic and contemporary photography online, builds upon the legacy of Nash's quality curation and scholarship to create 21st century, accessible, online educational resources of great interest and utility to scholars, students, and a wide audience of ancient Roman enthusiasts.
VRA 2023 Exploring 3D Technologies in the Classroom session. Presenter: Amy McKenna
Amy McKenna (Williams College) discusses her project that uses Photoshop and cardboard 3D glasses to recreate the 19th-century spectacle of a historic glass stereo collection.
VRA 2023 Keynote. Presenter: Melissa Gohlke
A historical record that focuses on white, heteronormative society and events obscures many facets of San Antonio history. Peel back the veneer of normalcy and one can find rich, diverse, and unexpected strands of the city’s past. From female impersonators of the early 1900s to queer life in derelict spaces during the 1960s and finally, gay and lesbian bar culture of the1970s and beyond, the hidden threads of San Antonio’s history reveal themselves. In this presentation, LGBTQ Historian Melissa Gohlke explores these hidden histories and stitches together an alternative interpretation of the city’s historical narrative by examining a wealth of primary sources found in archives and personal collections.
About the speaker:
Melissa Gohlke is an urban historian who specializes in San Antonio LGBTQ+ history. For over a decade, Gohlke has been researching queer history in San Antonio and South Texas and sharing her passion for this history through extensive outreach activities such as presentations, media interactions, exhibits, and written work. Gohlke is the Assistant Archivist for UTSA Libraries Special Collections.
About the VRA:
The Visual Resources Association is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image management within the educational, cultural heritage, and commercial environments.
VRA 2023 Beyond the Classroom: Developing Image Databases for Research session. Presenter: Mark Pompelia
Material Order is an academic consortium of material sample collections (including wood, metal, glass, ceramic, polymers, plastics, textiles, bio-materials, etc.—any material that might be used in or considered for art, architecture, and design disciplines) founded by the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University and Fleet Library at Rhode Island School of Design and now comprising several more institutions in the US. It provides a community-based approach to management and access to material collections utilizing and developing standards and best practices. Material Order created the Materials Profile that serves as a shared cataloging tool on the LYRASIS CollectionSpace platform and can be further developed as the different needs of consortium members are identified. Open Web searching across all collections occurs via a front-end discovery portal built with Wordpress at materialorder.org.
The Material Order project was born from the acknowledgment that resource sharing and collaborative catalogs are the most promising approach to exploration and implementation. It was always the intent, now actualized, for partner institutions with different mission and scope to compel the project to consider and accommodate criteria such as material health ecologies, fabrication possibilities, and overlap into adjacent fields such as engineering and archeology. Thus, Material Order represents not just items on a shelf but a knowledge-base of compositions, uses, forms, and properties. No longer in its infancy, Material Order provides a shared and adaptable framework for managing collections across the consortium and optimal facilitation of materials-based research and exploration for art, architecture, and design applications.
VRA 2023 New Frontiers in Visual Resources session. Presenters: Meghan Rubenstein and Kate Leonard
The Art Department at Colorado College is piloting a Personal Archiving program in select undergraduate studio courses that combines visual and digital literacy instruction with personal reflection and professional development. Meghan Rubenstein, Curator of Visual Resources, and Kate Leonard, Professor of Art, will discuss the drive behind this initiative to develop student competencies within a liberal arts setting. We will share our ongoing iterative process as well as select student activities and learning outcomes that may be adopted to various institutions.
VRA 2022 Teaching Visual Literacy session. Presenter: Molly Schoen
Our everyday lives are more saturated in images and videos than any other time in human history. This fact alone underscores the need to implement visual literacy skills in all stages of education, from pre-K to post-grad. Learning how to read images with critical, analytical eyes is crucial to understanding the world around us as we see it represented in the news, social media, advertisements, etc. New technologies have exasperated this already urgent need for visual literacy education. Synthetic media, deepfakes, APIs, bot farms, and other forms of artificial intelligence have many innovative uses, but bad actors also use them to fan the flames of disinformation. We have seen the grave consequences from this age of disinformation, from undermining elections to attempts to delegitimize science and doctors, undoubtedly raising the death toll from the COVID-19 pandemic. What do we need to know about these new forms of altered images made by artificial intelligence? How do we discern between real, human-made content versus fakes made by computers, which are becoming more and more difficult to discern? This paper aims to raise awareness of how new forms of visual media can manipulate and deceive the viewer. Audience participants will learn how to empower themselves and their peers into being more savvy consumers of visual materials by understanding the basics of AI and recognizing the characteristics of faked media.
VRA 2022 Individual Papers Session. Presenter: Malia Van Heukelem
This case study of a large artist archive at a medium sized academic research library will connect the success of the artist serving as his own archivist and the collection's broad research appeal locally, nationally and internationally. Like many artists, there is so much more than his own work represented. There is correspondence, fine art prints, ephemera of other artists and writers hidden in the collection. The foundation of organization is in place; now the focus is on creating online access points through finding aids and image collections. The presentation will explore the use of ArchivesSpace, Omeka, and other software to increase access. It will also demonstrate how a solo archivist can leverage interns, student assistants, and volunteers for collections management projects that benefit both the institutional priorities and desired learning outcomes. This talk will delve into the challenges of 20th century visual resource collections such as copyright and engagement with donors. Featuring a local artist has brought other art and architecture collections to the library, without clear boundaries which has led to questions of sustainability, who and what is collected. There is definitely a need to balance the historical record and yet, there are already more archival collections accessioned than can be responsibly managed by one person. The primary collection does include works by women and artists of color, yet much descriptive work remains to forefront the diversity contained within. As an archivist and librarian at a public university, there are many competing demands for collections management, support of researchers, and instruction plus the added interest for exhibition loans and the desire for other artists and architects to be represented. This artist archive is both interesting and complex.
VRA 2022 Critical Cataloging Conversations in Teaching, Research, and Practice session. Presenters: Megan Macken, Louise Siddons
Prior to the fall of 2020, the historic record of art exhibitions held at Oklahoma State University (OSU) was available only in incomplete, unprocessed archival materials. Students in Louise Siddons’ fall 2020 History of American Art course conducted research in the digitized student newspaper archive to begin documenting OSU art exhibitions since 1960. The resulting database was shared with the public with the intention of building on the project in future courses. Throughout the project both students and faculty engaged in critical cataloging.
Using the exhibition dataset they had created, students completed two analytical assignments: a traditional art history essay in which they considered one exhibition closely, and a critical reflection prompting them to consider their new understanding of the university’s history based on the aggregation of exhibitions. As gaps and surprises in representation appeared, students developed a more nuanced picture of institutional culture in the latter half of the 20th century.
After the course concluded, art history and library faculty standardized the student-generated data in preparation for sharing on other platforms such as Wikidata. Some artists who have exhibited at OSU also have interviews in the OSU oral history collections, and intersections between these projects and the questions raised by surfacing this metadata were explored. In the process issues emerged around artists’ preferred ways of identifying themselves as well as the difficulties of achieving a balance between increased representation of artists on the margins and respect for the privacy of living artists.
VRA 2022 session. Organizer/Moderator: Allan T. Kohl. Speakers: Virginia (Macie) Hall, Christina Updike, Marcia Focht, Rebecca Moss, Steven Kowalik, Jenni Rodda
During the past year, the “Great Resignation” (aka. The “Big Quit”) has roiled the world of employment nationwide in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, which had already caused job losses among our membership. While many institutions and individuals now hope for a “return to normal,” others anticipate that the past two years mark a watershed necessitating further transformational changes in the years ahead. These larger employment trends have come on top of quantum shifts in the visual resources field itself, as traditional tasks give way to new responsibilities, and siloed image collections are replaced by interdisciplinary projects.
For several years, our annual conferences have featured the perspectives of newer professionals in “Stories from the Start.” Looking at the opposite ends of their career arcs, this session brings together the perspectives and experiences of two pre-pandemic retirees, two of our members who made their decisions to retire during the past year, and two currently active professionals whose retirements are pending in the near future. When and why did they make their decisions to retire? What was/is the actual process? Concerns? What comes next after we leave our offices for the last time?
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Presenters: Melissa Becher and Samuel Sadow
In 2019, the art history program at American University gave its masters students a new option for the capstone project that is the culmination of the degree: create a digital project on an art historical topic using Omeka S or Wordpress. Initially, only a single student chose to complete a digital capstone over a traditional thesis, but within two years there was near parity between the two options, meaning seven digital capstones for the 2021 cohort. To support these projects, a close partnership quickly developed between the University’s library, the visual resources center, and the archives. This session covers how three campus units coordinate that support for these innovative digital humanities projects, including administration of the platforms, instruction, technical support, preservation, and access to the final projects. The session will also showcase examples of student work to demonstrate the variety and creativity of projects that can be accomplished using these platforms, as well as their contributions to the field of art history. The outcome of this initiative is clear: the best of digital humanities, weaving design and technology with rigorous art historical research, and finished projects that have already resulted in successful job applications in the field.
VRA 2022 Material Objects and Special Collections session. Presenters: Allan T. Kohl and Jackie Spafford
Materials-based collections represent a challenging new mode of information management in terms of subject specialization, physical description and accommodation, and institutional mission. Building upon the successful introductory meeting of this Group in Los Angeles at the 2019 Conference, the goal of this SIG is to provide a forum for open discussion of Material and Object Collections and their relationship to various library/visual resources tasks. The Material and Object Collections SIG provides an opportunity for individuals working with a variety of materials and objects collections – including those that support art and art history courses, those that support architecture and design courses, and those in cultural heritage organizations – to share ideas, issues, and potential solutions in regard to tasks similar to common library/visual resources activities (including cataloging, documentation, staffing, outreach), as well as more specialized concerns relating to the management of physical objects (security, storage and retrieval, the design of user spaces, etc.).
By continuing to offer an opportunity for participants to share brief introductions and profiles of their collections, we hope to encourage networking and exchange information about sources for specialized items; to display sample items and share surplus samples with other collections; and to provide examples of successful solutions to typical problems. Our long-range goal is to maintain an ongoing support group that can be of particular benefit to those professionals who are in the beginning stages of building or organizing physical collections.
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Moderator: Otto Luna
Exploration of visualization tools in the Digital Humanities/Digital Art History realm. Presenter: Catherine Adams
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Supporting Art History Students’ Digital Projects at American University. Presenters: Samuel Sadow and Melissa Becher
VRA 2022 Digital Art History session. Presenter: Kayla Olson
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Incorporating Diversity in our Workplace: All are Welcome, but How Do We Get There?
1. Incorporating Diversity
in our Workplace:
All are Welcome, but How Do We Get There?
Visual Resources Association 2020
Tuesday, March 24
Moderator: Andrew Wang
2. Presentations
Heidi S. Raatz
Collections Information Specialist, Minneapolis Institute of Art
Cindy Frank
Subject Librarian, School of Architecture, Planning and
Preservation; University of Maryland
Meghan Rubenstein
Visual Resources Curator, Colorado College
3. Documenting Artist Identity: Finding room for
diversity in a world of standards
Heidi S. Raatz, MLIS
Collections Information Specialist, Minneapolis Institute of Art
hraatz@artsmia.org
3
4. “We shall overcome because the arc
of the moral universe is long but it
bends toward justice.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great
Revolution.” Speech given at the National Cathedral, March 31,
1968.
Source: Smithsonian Institution https://www.si.edu/spotlight/mlk?page=4&iframe=true
4
5. “Museums have the potential to be
relevant, socially-engaged spaces in
our communities, acting as agents of
positive change.”
—Mike Murawski, Museums Are Not Neutral, August 31, 2017
5
14. References & Resources:
Mike Murawski, Museums Are Not Neutral, Art Museum Teaching,
https://artmuseumteaching.com/2017/08/31/museums-are-not-neutral/
Topaz CM, Klingenberg B, Turek D, Heggeseth B, Harris PE, Blackwood JC, et al.
(2019) Diversity of artists in major U.S. museums. PLoS ONE 14(3): e0212852,
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0212852
Frances Lloyd-Baynes, Documenting Diversity, Medium.com, Minneapolis Institute of
Art https://medium.com/minneapolis-institute-of-art/documenting-diversity-
17f55a4118da
Homosaurus, an International Thesaurus of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender
Index Terms, http://homosaurus.org/
AAM LGBTQ Welcoming Guidelines, https://www.aam-us.org/wp-
content/uploads/2019/05/2019-Welcoming-Guidelines.pdf
15. Thank you
With thanks and gratitude to current and former colleagues on
Mia’s Artist Identity Data Working Group: Frances Lloyd-Baynes,
Esther Callahan, Heather Everhart, Amanda Bialon, Alex
Bortolot and Rachel Wolff, for their collaboration, perspectives,
dedication, and work on supporting diversity at Mia.
Heidi S. Raatz, MLIS
Collections Information Specialist, Minneapolis Institute of Art
hraatz@artsmia.org
www.artsmia.org
16. Mai
Making an Impact in the
Workplace
IDEA Work at the University of
Maryland Libraries
Cindy Frank, Architecture Librarian
cfrank@umd.edu
17. Campus level Diversity Officer Within the Library
Responsibilities
● Provide Diversity Education and Training
● Climate assessments
● Support Diversity-related
recruitment/retention/promotion
● programming
Campus level Diversity Officer
Within the Library
18. ● IDEA Committee, chaired by Diversity Officer
● Values in the Libraries Strategic Plan
○Bravery
○Democratization
○Transformation
Library Support
19. IDEA Committee Goals
Inclusion Diversity Equity
Accessibility
Within the Big Ideals of Bravery, Democratization,
Transformation
● Increase Outreach and Awareness
● Build Education and Training
● Do Better at Recruitment, Retention, Promotion
● Build Institutional Knowledge
● Maintain Awards to recognize Diversity
20. What are we
doing right
now?
Outreach and
engagement.
Bravery
Read-a-thon for Black History
Month, Brave Space
● Success
○ 62 people signed in;
○ Shared quotes, books, plays
○ built a shopping list of Books for libraries
● Challenge
○ 36,000 students. More participants.
21. Sociology doctoral student Tuesday Barnes reads “Changing Bodies in the Fiction of Octavia Butler”
by Gregory Jerome Hampton yesterday at the Black History Month Read-athon in McKeldin Library.
(Photo by Stephanie S. Cordle)
22. What do we want to do?
Outreach and Engagement
Partner with other groups on campus
● Office of Diversity and Inclusion for discussions of anti-
black racism
● iSchool on Diversity Conference
● Office of Student Services for accessibility conference
23. What are we
doing right
now?
Education and
training.
Bravery
Transformation
WORKSHOP
Role Play to combat inherent biases
● Success - People spoke up about
inequities
○ Power between Faculty and Staff
○ Respect during meetings, people on
phones
○ Gender issues
● Challenge - same people who always
come to Diversity Activities, not reaching
anyone new
24. What do we want to do?
Require Diversity Training for current
employees.
Include Diversity Training for new employees.
● New Head of HR wants to work with IDEA
● Education and Training; Equity, inclusion
25. What do we want to
do?
Get Used to Speaking Up!
Ask for more clarification: “Could you say more about what you mean by that?” “How have
you come to think that?”
Separate intent from impact: “I know you didn’t realize this, but when you __________
(comment/behavior), it was hurtful/offensive because___________. Instead you
could___________ (different language or behavior.)”
Share your own process: “I noticed that you ___________ (comment/behavior). I used to
do/say that too, but then I learned____________.” NYT How to Respond
26. What are we
doing right
now?
Education and
awareness.
Democratization
Accessibility
27. What do we want to
do?
Gender Inclusive bathrooms
● Current bathroom locations: https://maps.umd.edu/map/
● Main library on campus: survey as the most requested location for
inclusive bathrooms.
● We have one. For 7 Floors.
29. What
are we
doing
right
now?
Building and Sharing Resources
http://lib.guides.umd.edu/IDEA/read_and_learn
● Research resources
● Read and Learn resources
○ Brown bag discussion groups
Diversity, Inclusion, Equity, Accessibility
30. What do we want to do?
Enhanced Outreach, Employee relations, Training, Library
Usability, Collections work
● Exhibits using Libraries Special Collections
● Nonbiased catalog language
● Discussion groups around selected readings
● Promote accessible meeting protocols
31. How do
we make
policies
work on
the
personal
level?
● Admit our privilege.
○ Use your privilege for good.
● Be Actively Anti-Racist.
● Treat everyone with
kindness.
○ Acknowledge people’s existence
32. Thank you. Thank you to Kelly Bouma and Sasha Kahn,
who did so much research on college and
university library diversity statements.
Thank you to my IDEA co-chair Tahirah
Akbar-Williams who shares with me so I can
sit with her experiences.
Thank you for sharing your time.
33. Resources
Websites
University of Maryland Office of Diversity and Inclusion Diversity Officers
University of Maryland Advance Office ADVANCE |
Piscataway Conoy Tribe Website Welcome to the Piscataway Conoy Tribe Website
Article about the Black History Month Read-a-thon Reading and Righting
Social Justice and Museum Resource List SOCIAL JUSTICE & MUSEUMS RESOURCE LIST
Cornell University Libraries Diversity Libguide https://guides.library.cornell.edu/diversity_resources
How to create accessible content https://accessibility.princeton.edu/how/create-accessible-content
34. Resources
Articles
When you walk into the valley - John Metta Doing the Work
Maintaining Professionalism in the age of black death Black Professionals Are Going Through A Lot
How to Respond to Microaggressions https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/03/smarter-living/how-to-respond-to-
microaggressions.html#click=https://t.co/Kph9U3lKRn
The Dance We Do, by Natisha Harper https://arlisdivcom.wordpress.com/2020/06/05/the-dance-we-do/
Maya Angelou reads “A brave and Startling Truth” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjEfq7wLm7M
“The Brown Menace” by Audre Lorde https://verse.press/poem/the-brown-menace-or-poem-to-the-survival-of-
5424364597480360256
35. Promoting Diversity through
Student-Driven Projects
Meghan Rubenstein
Curator of Visual Resources
Colorado College
VRA Webinar
June 12, 2020
Incorporating diversity in our workplace:
All are welcome, but how do we get there?
37. Visual Resources Center, Colorado College
VRC History
● Collection, patrons,
employees
Hiring Practices
● Recruitment and retention
Student Projects
● Collaborative curation of
the digital collection
Overview
38. Native American Modern and Contemporary Art
● Actively increase presence of 20th and 21st century Native artists in the
digital collection.
Protecting Traditional Knowledge
● Create policies that allow us to restrict access to cultural property in our
digital and slide collections.
Decolonizing the Archive
● Actively increase presence of artists who identify as women, black,
indigenous, and people of color in the digital collection.
Queering the Archive
● Actively increase presence of artists who identify as queer in the digital
collection.
Student-Driven Collection Development
41. ● Post open positions on a campus-wide jobs board and encourage
referrals.
● Give preference to students on financial aid and do not hire lower need
students until Block 2.
● During the interview process, ask potential hires to identify what
professional skills they need or want. Encourage them to brainstorm
how they can contribute to our mission.
● Leverage VRC renovation to attract more diverse user base, which
raises the visibility of our center and our work.
Hiring Practices
43. George Littlechild
Too Ethnic Looking #1
2001
Jeffrey Gibson
Birds of a Feather
2017
Native American Modern and Contemporary Art
T.C. Cannon
On Drinkin’ Beer in
Vietnam in 1967
1971
44. ● What should we do with slides in our collection that contain tangible
and intangible cultural property?
● How do we control what we accession into our digital collection?
● What rights are protected for surrogates?
● How do we learn about other intellectual property concerns outside
the Native American community?
Protecting Traditional Knowledge
45. Decolonizing the Archive
Jabu Ndlovu
Mildred Howard
I’ve Been a Witness
to this Game IX
2016
Lorna Simpson
Waterbearer
1986
Mickalene Thomas
Can’t We Just Sit
Down and Talk it
Over?
2006
46. Queering the Archive
Mae Eskenazi
Ren Hang
Untitled
2013-14
Amos Mac and
Juliana Huxtable
Rest
2013
Kike Arnal
Emmanuel Valentino
2016
47. Summary
● The VRC still supports academic
classes but most of our collection
development is student-driven and
forward thinking.
● Student investment in our mission
has led to productive collaborations
and greater diversity represented in
our workforce and our workplace.
● We recognize the power of the
archive and our own roles and
responsibilities.
Colorado College VRC
48. Final Questions
Mariel Belanger
Illegal: Let Us Live
performance stills from 2018
● How should we move forward?
● It is possible to initiate projects like
these if you are unsupported by your
institution?
49. Meghan Rubenstein
mrubenstein@coloradocollege.edu
A huge thank you to all the students who have worked
with me in the VRC and my colleagues at Colorado College
who support us.
Alyssa, Mae, Jabu, Tyrien, Sam, Chris, Andrej, Heidi, Kat,
Robin, Cate, Wayan, Olivia, Sabrina, Willa, Hannah, Abby,
Anna, Walker, Amelia, & Marta.