June 18, 2012
Agenda:
In attendance: Susette Newberry, Marsha Taichman, Kaila Bussert, Boris Michev, Martha Walker
10-11am, Olin 106
- Announcements / Updates
- Inside Scoop for graduate students will be Sept. 13, 5-6:30pm at Mann.
- GIS and Visual Resources booths
- publicize to AAP grad students
- prepare slide-show of images for Visual Resources booth
- Inside Scoop for graduate students will be Sept. 13, 5-6:30pm at Mann.
- Bookmark status
- Marsha will email Carla about status
- Suggestion from Peter Hirtle:
- Wikimedia is listed on the Find Images libguide; ran out of time to discuss this further
From Peter: Wikimedia Commons has been adding lots of images. I wonder if a NERF for it should be created and/or it should be added to the list of image databases?
Walters- Walters Museum uploads 19,000 photos to Wikimedia Commons — Wikimedia
The- blog. The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, has donated more than 19,000 freely-licensed images of artworks to Wikimedia Commons. The Walters' collection includes ancient art, medieval art and manuscripts, decorative objects, Asian art and Old Master and 19th-century paintings. The images and their associated information will join our collection of more than 12 million freely usable media files, which serves as the repository for the 285 language editions of Wikipedia.
- Wikimedia is listed on the Find Images libguide; ran out of time to discuss this further
- Re-cap of issues from vrhelp reference questions
- Overall, the listserv is working well. If any issues come up, we will discuss as a group. It was agreed that we would like Liz Muller to be on the listserv since there are many questions for RMC. Kaila will ask Liz.
- Post ACRL Immersion goals for visual resources/visual literacy instruction
- Offering information/training workshops/forums for CUL instruction and reference librarians (e.g. Citing images and visual media; showcase of new visual resources and how they can be used, etc.).
- We could gather input from colleagues at various venues: R&O Forum, department meetings, etc.
- Look at Count It data for image related questions
- Marsh and Kaila will work on a plan.
- VRWG and Museum collaboration on visual literacy concepts.
- Provenance workshop
- Visual Literacy Standards workshop?
- Mapping the curriculum for visual literacy?
- Integrate the visual into CUL instruction request form? e.g. ask if there is a presentation component (students will need to be able to find images) and/or use of multimedia in the course?
- Offering information/training workshops/forums for CUL instruction and reference librarians (e.g. Citing images and visual media; showcase of new visual resources and how they can be used, etc.).
- Discussion of VRWG sponsored informational talks
- discussed above
- Susette receives new faculty list from Arts & Sciences and Society for the Humanities. Marsha and Martha should request for AAP.
- Martha is thinking about ways to advertise the visual resource, Archvision. She will keep the group informed of her efforts.
April 24, 2012
In attendance: Susette Newberry, Marsha Taichman, Kaila Bussert
1-2pm, Olin 106
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