Exciting VRA Bulletin News

Dear VRA Colleagues, 

On behalf of the VRA Executive Board, I am delighted to share some exciting news about the VRA Bulletin, our open access journal. 

It is my great pleasure to announce the appointment of Jasmine Burns, Cornell University, to the position of VRA Bulletin Content Editor.  As a former two-term Executive Board Secretary, Jasmine has a deep knowledge of the VRA and an exciting vision for the Bulletin's future that builds upon the recent adoption of an open access and peer review model.  Her term will officially begin at the Annual Business Meeting in Baltimore next month. 

The board is also most sincerely grateful to Hannah Marshall,The Chinati Foundation, for her dedicated service and leadership over the past four years as both VRA Bulletin Production Editor and Content Editor. 

I am also very pleased to announce that our VRA Bulletin Production Editor Amy Lazet, College for Creative Studies, has completed the migration of the Bulletin to Open Journal Systems, an open source software application for managing and publishing scholarly journals.  This new platform will provide improved access to our journal for readers, greater ease for our authors and editors, and significant cost savings for the association.  Visit the VRA Bulletin site to see the improvements first-hand.  Amy has exciting design ideas for the site as it gets more established. 

I invite you to be on the look out for Jasmine and Amy's next call for submissions, publish in the VRA Bulletin, and share in its success. 

All best wishes,

Amy McKenna

VRA Public Relations and Communications Officer

Williams College