June 18, 2012
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Agenda:
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- Announcements / Updates
April 24, 2012
In attendance: Susette Newberry, Marsha Taichman, Kaila Bussert
1-2pm, Olin 106
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Agenda:
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- Announcements / Updates
- AskArt trial -- give feedback to Susette before April 30
- Other resources for art auctions? Susette working on libguide
- VR Budget meeting on May 7
- Image Databases list cleaned up
- New collections to add: Archvision, Scholars Resource 2 (Susette will e-nerf), Amica Library
- Public Services ideas from ARLIS and VRA?
- Interest from colleague at Colgate to develop a Visual Literacy conference in upstate NY which Cornell could host
- Visual Literacy training here
- Electronic Arts Initiative at Princeton
- Promotion materials
- We agreed to create a bookmark publicizing vrhelp-l for image questions.
- Audience: students (undergrads and grads)
- Content:
- One side would feature URL and vrhelp-l@cornell.edu
- Other side would list Image Questions? in big type, and then list services (Research, Scanning, Citing, Using, Copyright) as well as image categories (maps, plans, photos, videos, archival collections, visualizations, art, architecture, and more... )
- Marsha will send content text to Susette
- Susette will ask Carla about $ for 500 bookmarks and if we can get on her schedule; ask Janet about funding
- Fall Orientation events recap
- Cancel May meeting due to CUL Immersion. Next meeting June 18.
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In attendance: Susette Newberry, Marsha Taichman, Kaila Bussert
10-11am, Olin 603
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Agenda:
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- Discussion on mission and goals of group
- Members: Susette, Marsha, and Kaila. Boris will join us in the summer.
- Sub-group leader: For now, Kaila will set up meeting times and agenda items on the wiki.
- Meeting times: We agreed to meet once per month through the summer. We may decide to meet every other month in the fall.
- Ideas for projects or issues to discuss as a group: *high priority items
- *Fall orientation activities -- Susette gave an overview of Olin & Uris orientation events. Marsha will consult if needed as she plans FAL orientation events. Outside of orientation week, we will think about a collaborative orientation / outreach to Grad TAs in AAP, Art History, and Classics (for example).
- VR web site -- Susette will take the lead
- Image Databases list -- Marsha will take the lead as selector of the Visual Resources fund
- *Promotional materials -- This will be a priority project for us, and we will discuss at our next meeting. Invite Fiona and Danielle to discuss joint promotional materials.
- Online instructional materials
- Discuss ideas for instruction -- After CUL Immersion, make this a priority; Survey of 2011-2012 course-related instruction to see if there are areas to collaborate in the next year.
- Outreach -- Work on ways to make our presence more known on campus
- Social media -- Investigate options for outreach
- Visual literacy learning outcomes
- Reference training -- Offer a series of training workshops to CUL reference staff
- e.g. Citing images; New Image Resources; Personal Archiving by Danielle and Fiona
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