Sub-group developing paper on the shifting landscape of Visual Resources at Cornell to submit to ACRL.
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Deadlines:
February 21- rough paragraphs to Susette
February 28- Susette's edit
March- tbd
Possible topics:
- VRWG
- Group make-up; reflective of distributed environment
- History & evolution
- general principles
- units involved
- task forces following dissolution of KVRF
- Current charge
- Dealing with legacy collections
- Slides
- Faculty teaching material - (this could be of interest though not discussed in our meeting)
- Collection building
- Collaborating with faculty (A & S grants)
- Funding / collaborating with Colleges
- Shifting prioritization from teaching collections (Cornell based users) to research collections (global users)
- DCAPS/ DSS
- Services (note shift of emphasis from collections to services?)
- Collection stewardship
- Digital image delivery
- Digitization
- Metadata creation
- Instruction and faculty support (see below)
- Equipment lending
- Copyright consultation
- Outreach
- Website/ brochure
- Faculty support (Maaike & Kaila)
- Workshops
- Other Instruction
- Staff training
- Ongoing review of patron-related issues
Seems like we need to give an overview of the history of the Cornell "landscape"- including KVRF- and then can move on from there into what we are doing now.
PLEASE ADD YOUR THOUGHTS
ACRL Image Resources Interest Group (IRIG) presentation (Liz & Kaila), January 2010