2015 VRA Awards Announced at Members and Awards Dinner

VRA honored the recipients of the organization’s highest honors at a Members and Awards dinner on March 12, 2015, during the Visual Resources Association 33rd Annual conference in Denver, Colorado.Maureen Burns of IMAGinED Consulting received the Distinguished Service Award for her contributions to visual resources and image management. Comments from Burns' nominators and a description of her engagement with visual resources advocacy, service to the profession, and long term involvement with VRA and the VRA Foundation throughout  her  career will be posted at a later date.VRA presented the Nancy DeLaurier Award for distinguished achievement to the editors of Cataloging Cultural Objects (Chicago: American Library Association, 2006). The editors are Murtha Baca (Head of the Getty Digital Art History Access Program), Patricia Harpring (Managing Editor of the Getty Vocabulary Program), Eliza Lanzi (Director of Digital Strategies and Services,Smith College), Linda McRae (Retired Director of the Visual Resources Library,the University of South Florida at Tampa), and Ann Baird Whiteside (Librarian/Assistant Dean for Information Resources,the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University). View the slides and a transcript of the presentation online.