Registration Open for ArLiSNAP and VREPS 2021 Fall Virtual Conference
Art Library Students and New ARLIS/NA Professionals (ArLiSNAP) and Visual Resources Association's Emerging Professionals And Students Group (VREPS) invite you to register for our 2021 Fall Virtual Conference.
This conference is open to all, but focuses on the needs of students and new professionals. Attendees interested in art librarianship or visual resource management will have the opportunity to learn from peers and celebrate each other's work through virtual posters and presentations. Via this conference, we're seeking to foster a sense of belonging and growth in our community, and we invite all interested students and new professionals to participate.
Please register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcpfu-oqzojGdHnnXsq6bJ7tj2-j7jMTp2P
You will receive a link to join via Zoom when you register. If you have any questions, please send an email to arlisnap.na@gmail.com
SAVE THE DATEThe virtual conference will take place on Saturday, November 13th. The full program and registration information will be released on the ArLiSNAP blog and VREPS blog. To stay up-to-date, subscribe to the ArLiSNAP listserv, follow ArLiSNAP on Twitter / Instagram, and check the VREPS blog.
Schedule1:00 pm ET | 10 am PT - Welcome!1:10 pm ET | 10:10 am PT - Fresh Eyes Lighting Talks2:00 pm ET | 11:00 am PT - Skill Shares2:20 pm ET | 11:20 am PT - Break2:30 pm ET | 11:30 am PT - Poster Q&A + Social3:30 pm ET |12:30 pm PT - The End!
ArLiSNAP and VREPS: 2021 Fall Virtual Conference
Art Library Students and New ARLIS/NA Professionals (ArLiSNAP) and Visual Resources Association's Emerging Professionals And Students Group (VREPS) invite you to save the date for our 2021 Fall Virtual Conference.
This conference is open to all, but focuses on the needs of students and new professionals. Attendees interested in art librarianship or visual resource management will have the opportunity to learn from peers and celebrate each other's work through virtual posters and presentations. Via this conference, we're seeking to foster a sense of belonging and growth in our community, and we invite all interested students and new professionals to participate.
Our calls for students and new professionals to present in different sessions are outlined below. If you have any questions in the meantime, please send an email to ArLiSNAP: arlisnap.na@gmail.com.
SAVE THE DATE
The virtual conference will take place on Saturday, November 13th. The full program and registration information will be released on the ArLiSNAP blog and VREPS blog. To stay up-to-date, subscribe to the ArLiSNAP listserv, follow ArLiSNAP on Twitter / Instagram, and check the VREPS blog.
TIMELINE
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Wednesday, 10/20: Deadline for all callsPlease submit a form for each session category in which you are interested.
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Friday, 10/22: All applicants will be informed of the conference team’s decision for each submission
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Friday, 10/29: Deadline for selected submissions to accept participation in the conference
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Week of11/08: Technology Check Session
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Tuesday, 11/09: Deadline for materials (virtual posters and presentation slides)
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Saturday, 11/13: Conference date
SUBMISSION FORM
You are welcome to submit for more than one of the categories below. Please submit a form for each session category in which you are interested.https://forms.gle/KaLhwP1c6htRNm1SA
CALL FOR VIRTUAL POSTER PRESENTATIONS:
ArLiSNAP and VREPS welcome proposals from students and new professionals with an interest in art librarianship or visual resources management to share newly completed or in-progress projects, be they research or outcomes from an internship/practicum, at the virtual poster presentation at our 2021 Virtual Conference. This is an opportunity for emerging professionals to share their work in a supportive and engaging space while connecting with other students and early career information professionals. Proposals are open to individual presenters and co-presenters. Virtual posters will be available for asynchronous browsing by attendees, with a live Q&A for all presenters during the conference followed by a social hour. Formatting details will be sent if selected.
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS:
Fresh Eyes: Celebrating Our Successes as New Professionals
Are you a student or emerging professional who solved a problem for your school or institution? Did you complete a huge project during an internship, suggest a new workflow that helped speed up digitization or researcher requests, or start an amazing new program for community members? We want to hear from you!
Students and emerging professionals have the opportunity to bring "fresh eyes" to an institution. These "fresh eyes" can often add valuable perspectives, allowing for opportunities to ask questions, make suggestions, and create new approaches to work that's been done "the way we've always done it." In the session, speakers will present via lightning talks case studies detailing how they experienced a workflow or problem, and how their suggestions and perspectives as students and emerging professionals helped create a better process or environment. This is a space for us to celebrate the valuable contributions students and emerging professionals can bring to an institution.
This session will feature virtual lightning talks of five to seven minutes from five to six presenters, followed by live Q&A.
Building Belonging
ArLiSNAP and VREPS invites you to share current initiatives in the field of art information focusing on fostering a sense of belonging. Proposals can encompass ongoing, completed or in-progress projects that aim to reshape our art information spaces physically or virtually, for you, your colleagues, or patrons. This prompt is purposefully open-ended to encourage a variety of lenses on how we can rethink and reshape our field. Presentations from students and new professionals can be solo or collaborative.
This session will feature three 15-minute virtual presentations with a live Q&A. Please note we will confer with selected presenters if they wish to be recorded or not.
CALL FOR SKILL SHARE MINI WORKSHOPS:
We are committed to learning and a community that extends beyond our scheduled sessions and agenda. Do you have something you’re currently working on, passionate about, recently discovered, or a practice you find helpful or restorative? During our breaks between sessions, we are looking for volunteers to share their passions and skills with us. Some ideas include a guided breathing exercise, new pandemic hobby, self-care strategy, or in-progress project. These skill shares are meant to be casual and offer space to learn and share what we’re learning with each other.
We will have two breaks during which we want to highlight your knowledge, skills, and interests. If you would like to participate in our Skill Share, please tell us a little bit about what you would like to do and approximately how long you think it would take (3-10 minutes).
EAC & VREPS Community Hour: Cash Rules Everything Around Me
You asked and we listened! We are having a community hour based on our 2021 conference session, Cash Rules Everything Around Me! Join us on Wednesday, July 28, 11am PST / 12pm MST / 1pm CST / 2pm EST to discuss the following and more.
"Cash Rules Everything Around Me" gathered a diverse range of GLAM professionals to discuss financial/compensation transparency and how it relates to the field. Join EAC, VREPS co-chairs, and CREAM conference panelists, Jennifer Friedman and Margaret McKee, for a continuation of a fruitful discussion about compensation at various points in one’s career and across the field at large.
Everyone is encouraged to attend. We hope students and emerging professionals will leave feeling empowered with strategies to navigate employment, and managers/administrators will gain insight into potential discrepancies and inequities.
We invite you to review the survey results and presentation from the conference before the Hour, but we hope you will come prepared with your questions! If you prefer to participate anonymously, please send your questions in advance to Lael or Kendra or use private chat during the Hour.
View the Community Hour doc here.
*NEW* If you’d like to receive a Google Calendar invite (generally Outlook friendly) to help as a reminder, please select yes on the registration form. Registrants will still be sent a registration link via email two days before the hour.
Best,Kendra and LaelEAC Co-Chairs
VREPS Spring Sessions
VRA Spotlight: VREPS
VRA Spotlight: VREPS (Visual Resources Emerging Professionals and Students Group)October 14, Wed, 2-3 pm ESTZoom meetingVREPS is committed to the dissemination and promotion of employment, professional development, and networking opportunities specific to the needs of new professionals and students. New to the visual resources professional field? Seasoned professional looking to share your wisdom or collaborate with up-and-comers? Come to this session to meet with other students and early-career professionals and learn what this active group is doing on behalf of the VRA (and what we can do for you!).Email info@vraweb.org for the Zoom link or find it on the MyVRA Calendar.
VREPS and ArLiSNAP Virtual Conference: Visualizing Your Future Art Information Career
Art Library Students and New ARLIS/NA Professionals (ArLiSNAP) and Visual Resources Association’s Emerging Professionals And Students Group (VREPS) invite you to save the date for our 2020 Virtual Conference: Visualizing Your Future Art Information Career.
This conference is open to all, but focuses on the needs of students and new professionals. It will provide attendees interested in art librarianship or visual resources management the opportunity to learn about pursuing a career in art information, present their work through virtual posters, and discover projects and research seeking to foster diversity, equity, and inclusion in the field.
Our calls for students, new professionals, and experienced professionals to present in different sessions are outlined below. If you have any questions in the meantime, please send an email copying the ArLiSNAP and VREPS emails: arlisnap.na@gmail.com, vreps@vraweb.org.
VREPS & EAC: Investing in Yourself and Your Career
VREPS & EAC Community Hour: Investing In Yourself and Your Career
Wednesday, August 12, 2020 2:00-3:00 pm EST/ 11:00am-12:00pm PST
VREPS and EAC are teaming up to co-facilitate a roundtable discussion about advocating for yourself in a new or changing role and identifying skills which visual resources emerging or job-seeking professionals might need in future positions. We’ll discuss various methods on how to learn new skills or freshen up existing skills, either on your own time and dime or using limited funds. We’ll discuss how to advocate for yourself when given more responsibilities or different responsibilities due to layoffs or the switch to a virtual work environment. We’ll also explore ways to find free or low-cost professional development opportunities and how to hone your skills while experiencing virtual fatigue. VREPS x EAC Community Hour doc
VREPS Virtual Spring Meeting
Reminder: Call for New VREPS Co-Chair
With the planned departure of VREPS Co-Chair, Kendra Werst, by the end of the VRA 2020 conference in March, VREPS is seeking applications for a new Co-Chair!!Co-Chair terms are two years, starting from the annual conference and ending at the conference 23 months later (2020-2022). Terms are staggered so there is always one chair with one year of experience. Some of the duties include coordinating the VRAF Host Institution List for the VRAF Internship Award, organizing the ArLiSNAP x VREPS Annual Virtual Conference, as well as, developing conference programming and promoting professional development opportunities for emerging professionals and students.If you're interested in helping emerging professionals and students in the visual resources field (and beyond) please send a brief statement of interest to Julia Murphy, VREPS Co-Chair, at murphyjl@si.edu.Best regards,Julia Murphy and Kendra WerstVREPS Co-Chairs
VREPS/ArLiSNAP Fall 2019 Virtual Conference
ArLiSNAP (Art Library Students and New ARLIS Professionals) and VREPS (Visual ResourcesEmerging Professionals and Students) are pleased to announce our 2019 FallVirtual Conference: Accessing the Arts: Trends, Innovations, and Challengesfor the Information Professional. The conference will take place at 1-3PM CST October 26, 2019.
To register for this free event, visit https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/rt/7699807761594124043 . After registering,you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining thewebinar.
As information professionals, we are charged not only with stewarding our collections, but with fostering meaningful connections for our constituents. As such, providing access in physical and virtual spaces as diverse as our collections and our roles within them.
Our webinar will include three presentations which will be followed by a time for Q&A between our presenters and conference attendees. Our presenters will be:
Anna Boutin-Cooper and E Marcovitz, Franklin & Marshall College
One Summer, Two People, & a Zine Backlog: a How-To for New Catalogers
Jackie Fleming, Indiana University
Education Before Access: Why Every Art Librarian Should Have Basic Knowledge of Copyright Law and Legal Issues Related to Their Collections
Will Fenton and Ann McShane, The Library Company of Philadelphia
Redrawing History: Innovation through Artistic Reinterpretation
Hilary Wang and Lauren Haperstock, ArLiSNAP Conference Planning Liaisons and Masters of Library and Information Science students at Pratt Institute and University of Arizona respectively, will moderate the discussion
Registration will close two hours before the start of the webinar. Forassistance, please contact webinars@arlisna.org.
Hilary Wang and Lauren Haberstock
ArLiSNAP Conference Planning Liaisons
(hwang63@pratt.edu; lhaberstock@email.arizona.edu)
Meet Our New Social Media Manager
Dear VRA Colleagues,
On behalf of the VRA Executive Board, it is my great pleasure to announce the appointment of Devon Murphy to the role of Social Media Manager. Devon is a recent graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she received an MA/MSIS in Art History and Information Science. She is a VREPS member and the recipient of a New Horizons Student Award and Tansey Top-Up Award to attend VRA LA 2019. During the Lightning Round, she presented The Information Worlds of Art Museum Curators and Registrars.
Devon brings a vast knowledge of social media platforms to her new role. She worked for three years at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Libraries and at the UNC Writing and Learning Center, creating visual and video content for Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, and utilizing social media management tools to schedule and publish content. The Board is especially excited about Devon's expressed interest in broadening the VRA's group of partner organizations via social media and encouraging cross-pollination and a diversity of voices. Devon will officially begin her new role on July 1, 2019.
This announcement would not be complete without acknowledging the hard work and dedication of our current social media appointee, Kendra Werst. Kendra has done an exceptional job during her two-year term, growing and elevating the social media presence of the VRA. Please accept our sincerest thanks.
Kendra and Devon are excellent examples of newer members sharing their talents and energy with the VRA, while gaining important, resume-building skills and expanding their professional networks. The Board welcomes all members, new and old, to stake a claim in the organization!
All best wishes,
Amy McKenna
VRA Public Relations and Communications Officer
VREPS Spring Virtual Meeting Registration
If you are a Visual Resources Emerging Professional or Student please join your fellow VREPS colleagues for a Spring Virtual Meeting on Wednesday, May 15, 2019, from 2:00pm-3:00pm EST!
Please fill out this form to register & receive a zoom meeting link.
Registration Open for VREPS and ArLiSNAP Virtual Conference
VREPS (Visual Resources Emerging Professionals and Students) and ArLiSNAP (Art Library Students and New ARLIS Professionals) are pleased to announce our 2018 Fall Virtual Conference: New Media Challenges and Solutions for Art Information Professionals. The conference will take place at 1pm CST November 10, 2018.New media art, objects, and scholarly projects in the digital realm are challenging our traditional definitions and methodologies for collection, preservation, and research. We are pleased to welcome Coral Salomón, Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of Pennsylvania, who will present a keynote lecture.Our keynote lecture will be followed by an hour of presentations and a period of questions and conversation with our panel of speakers and conference attendees. Our presenters will be:Kat Buckley, University of ChicagoNo More Reality: Philippe Parreno and the Difficulties of Cataloging New MediaJean Moylean, Solomon R. Guggenheim MuseumSurveying Digital Media Production Workflows in Arts InstitutionsMichelle Wilson, ArLiSNAP Conference Planning Liaison and Digital Publishing Librarian at Columbia University, will moderate the discussion. Any questions about the event can be addressed to Michelle at mew2232@columbia.edu.Register at https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/3476474741821302274After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
ArLiSNAP/VREPS 2018 Virtual Conference: Call for Proposals
VREPS (Visual Resources Emerging Professionals and Students group) and ArLiSNAP welcome proposals from students and new professionals with an interest in art librarianship or visual resources management to present their work at our 2018 Virtual Conference:
New Media Challenges and Solutions for Art Information Professionals
New media art, objects, and scholarly projects in the digital realm are challenging our traditional definitions and methodologies for collection, preservation, and research as information professionals. As the scope for new media continues to expand, how are we defining, describing, and cataloging new media objects? How are we preparing for and anticipating storage and conservation needs? How do we respect artist intent and support scholarly research around these born-digital objects?
We invite proposals that share research and projects featuring new media in art librarianship and visual resources management for our annual virtual conference, an opportunity for emerging professionals to present in a supportive and engaging space while connecting with other students and early career librarians across North America.
The webinar will take place on Saturday, October 13th at 1PM CST. Submit your proposal via our Google Form to apply.
Proposals are due by Friday, August 31st. You must also be available to participate in a short practice session with the webinar software in the evening on Thursday, October 4. If you have any questions, please email the ArLiSNAP Conference Planning Liaison, Michelle Wilson.
Call for Applications - VRAF Internship Award
The Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF) invites applications for the third Kress Foundation funded Internship in visual resources and image management.You can find information about the application process and relevant deadlines here - note that applications are due July 31, 2015.We are grateful to VREPS for providing a current list of institutions that are offering internships in visual resources and image management. We hope that this list will be useful to VRAF internship applicants; however, applicants may propose other appropriate internship sites.We look forward to receiving your applications. Please forward this message to others who might be interested. Finally, I am happy to answer questions about the internship should you have them.All the best, MargaretMargaret N. WebsterVRAF Director & Chair, Internship Award CommitteeVisual Resources ConsultantDirector Emerita, Knight Visual Resources FacilityCornell University109 Iroquois RoadIthaca, NY 14850