Sub-group developing paper on the shifting landscape of Visual Resources at Cornell to submit to ACRL. 

http://crl.acrl.org/site/misc/author.xhtml

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