Register Now! VRA Regional Workshop on Creating Professional Partnerships
The Visual Resources Association (VRA) is pleased to announce registration is now live for Collaborating Across the Institution and Beyond: Creating Professional Partnerships to Support Cultural Heritage! This two-part online workshop will be taught by Maureen Burns and held via Zoom on Fridays, March 24th and March 31st from 12:00-2:00 pm EDT.REGISTRATIONTo register, please visit the workshop webpage. The workshop fee is $50. If you have questions about registration or general questions about the workshop, email the Regional Workshop Implementation Team at vraf.rwit@gmail.com.WORKSHOP DESCRIPTIONCultural Heritage professionals are finding new, mutually beneficial ways to work together to develop their resources. In this workshop, we will discuss:
- Improving discovery and broader access to digital resources
- Collaboration and partnerships between units to further common goals
- Current emphasis on institution-wide and inter-institutional work
- How collaborating can provide learning opportunities, expand job scope & develop professional skills
- Expanding networks through collaborative research and projects
- Real world examples of projects that have proven successful
This workshop will provide concrete strategies for building stronger professional collaborations by exploring the benefits and barriers to creating collaborations and offering specific techniques to build successful partnerships.ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORMaureen Burns is an information professional with over 35 years of experience developing and managing teaching resources of analog and digital images at UC Irvine, the Getty Villa, and CSULB. Presently working on a consulting basis through IMAGinED, she is the sales representative for Archivision/vrcHost, technical consultant on the CSU Archives Japanese American Digitization project, and participating in other image-focused and educational work. Burns’ degrees are in History, Art History, and Education. She recently completed 7 years of work on a NSF-funded arts and science integration UCI teacher training program and continues as the production editor for the electronic Journal for Learning through the Arts. She is active in the Visual Resources Association participating in the work of VRA’s Awards and Financial Advisory Committees and is also a past VRA president, past director of the VRA Foundation, past editor of the VRA Bulletin, and past chair of the VRA’s Southern California Chapter.