VRA 2015-2016 Report on Professional Status
Dear VRA colleagues,I am pleased to announce the completion and availability of the VRA 2015-2016 Professional Status Task Force Report on Professional Status.* This report provides extremely valuable information about the landscape of our professions and the needs of members and non-members working within a variety of visual resource environments. The Executive Board encourages you all to take some time to read the report, and we believe it will be of particular interest and use to our many committees, task forces, chapters, etc. Please don't hesitate to contact the VRA Board with questions about this information. We can be reached at board@vraweb.org.Please join me in thanking the members of the 2015 Professional Status Task Force for there dedication to their charge and for the thoughtful, creative, and collaborative time and energy they invested in the VRA over the past two years.
- Virginia (Macie) Hall, Senior Instructional Designer, Center for Educational Resources, Johns Hopkins University, Co-chair
- Ana Cox, Assistant Archivist, New York Public Radio Archives
- Liz Gushee, Head, Digital Collections Services, Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
- Amy McKenna, Assistant Visual Resources Curator, Art Department, Williams College
- Rebecca Moss, Assistant Director, LATIS, University of Minnesota
- Greg Reser, Metadata Analyst, University of California San Diego
- Jen Green, Digital Scholarship Librarian, Scholarly Communication, Copyright, and Publishing Program, Dartmouth College, (Co-chair through March 2016)
*You may also access the report within Memberclicks (go to: Community > Info >Task Force and Advisory Group Reports). The Board will also be submitting the report to the VRA Bulletin for publication in a future issue.Kind regards,Jen Green