Resources
General Reference and Administrative
Intellectual Property Rights/Copyright
Cataloging and Data Management
Digital Collections and Collection Development
Education and Professional Development
General Reference and Administrative
- Criteria for Hiring Visual Resources Professionals
- Visual Resources Facilities (M. Battey), 2000
- Professional Status Survey 2007
- VRA-ARLIS/NA Professional Status Survey 1999
- ARLIS/NA Compensation Survey 2004 (PDF 2 MB)
- ARLIS/NA VRD Visual Media News
- Types of VRA Travel Awards
- Travel Award Rules and Guidelines
- Tips for Completing Your Travel Award Application
- Travel Award Recipients Since the Founding of the Program
- Visual Resources Documents
Intellectual Property Rights/Copyright
Intellectual Property Rights Committee
- Copyright and Fair Use
- Copyphotography Computator (A. Kohl)
- Digital Image Rights Computator (DIRC)
- Image Collection Guidelines: The Acquisition and Use of Images in Non-Profit Educational Visual Resources Collections
- World Intellectual Property Organizations (WIPO)
- VRA Orphan Works Letter (K. Albrecht) (PDF 24 KB)
- CCI Orphan Works Comments Endorsed by the VRA (PDF 136 KB)
Cataloging and Data Management
Data Standards Committee
- ARLIS/NA Cataloging Section (K. Teel)
- Art Cataloging Resources (S. Clarke)
- Data Standards/Controlled Vocabularies
- VRA Data Standards FAQs
- Metadata
- MARC Mapping Chart
- MARC/MARBI Cataloging Reports
- Getty Metadata Crosswalk
- Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO)
- VRA Core 4.0
- Previous VRA Core Versions
- Strategies for Data Migration in the Age of CCO and VRA Core 4.0
- Got Metadata? A presentation on VRA Core 4.0 XML
- Why Use a Relational Cataloging Tool (J. Eklund)
Digital Collections and Collection Development
Digital Initiatives Advisory Group
- Online Resources and Software List (S. Williams)
- Relational VR Database Planning Document (S. Williams)
- Labor Costs Per Minute Worksheet [PDF] (S. Williams)
- Image User Studies [PDF] (H. Pisciotta)
- Digital Strategic Plan [PDF] (L. Lickteig)
Note: As a condition for permission to download this digital strategic plan, the document's author, Lynn Lickteig, requires that you send her an e-mail stating that you have downloaded it at the following e-mail address: vrc@colorado.edu. Additionally, any exact use in written form of material taken from this plan (whether published or non-published) must give proper credit to the author. - Resources for Photoshop and Digital Imaging (M. Braunstein)
- Image Providers Directory (D. Beetham)
- Digital Initiatives Advisory Group
- Digital Scene and Heard
- Outreach References (M. Burns and R. Vecchiola)
A bibliography of articles and materials on building digital image collections and collaborative digital image projects. - Matchmaking Listserv Archive
Education and Professional Development
Education Committee
- Professional Organizations and Associations
- Degrees and Related Programs
- Online Tutorials and Publications
- Courses and Workshops
- Conferences
- Visual Resources Internship Programs
