Friday, November 12, 2010

Fall 2010 VRA NoCal Chapter Meeting

This fall VRA NoCal will meet at Stanford University on November 19, 2010, for a panel discussion on copyright in libraries and museums. This will be a joint meeting between VRA NoCal and ARLIS NA / Northern California (NC). Please see the agenda for more details about location, times, and speakers.

Tentative Agenda for Joint VRA NoCal & ARLIS/NA-NC Fall Meeting
Friday, November 19, 2010
Green Library, Stanford University

9:00am, Meet in the Information Center Instruction Room for coffee and pastries, VRA and ARLIS mingle

9:20am, Break into separate rooms for business meetings
ARLIS in Information Center Instruction Room, VRA in Social Sciences Seminar Room

9:30am, Business meeting
Co-chairs call to order the fall meeting of the VRA NoCal Chapter.

-Minutes of the last meeting read and approved
-Treasurer's report
-Introduce Ian Frederick-Rothwell as our chapters new secretary / treasurer
-VRA Conference in March in Minneapolis: who is going? Do we have enough for a meeting there? Solicit items for chapter basket for the fundraising auction
-VRA SoCal members talked up the idea of a joint VRA So/NoCal meeting in Santa Barbara next June (summer 2011). Possible workshop ideas for that meeting could be on using the Getty vocabularies and invite Murtha Baca or someone else from the Getty to do lead it.
-Discussion of what members want from their local chapter for future meetings
-Ideas for encouraging membership from new sources.
-Roundtable discussion (time permitting)

10:45am, Break
VRA and ARLIS reconvene in IC Instruction Room for presentations

11:00am-12:30pm, Copyright presentations

-Mimi Calter, Assistant University Librarian & Chief of Staff, Stanford, University Libraries. She will present on the nuts-and-bolts of copyright in libraries.
-Anne Bast, Intellectual Property Associate, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA). She will present on SFMOMA’s approach to copyright, image management, and Explore Modern Art, SFMOMA’s online collection database.
-Jason M. Schultz, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law and Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology & Public Policy Clinic at the UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall). He will present on a topic related to Google Book Search and interlibrary loan.

12:30-1:00pm, Post-presentation discussion

1:00pm, Lunch
Stanford Faculty Club, cost ca. $26. This is a buffet lunch with drinks and dessert. The buffet lunch is $13.25, drinks are $1.50, and desserts are $3.50. + 20% tip for the group lunch and tax.

IMPORTANT: The Faculty Club will present one bill for the group to be paid by credit card. The lunch will be CASH ONLY since one of the chairs will be putting the whole charge on their credit card. If you plan to have lunch at the faculty club please bring the amount of cash you need for your lunch.

2:30pm-3:30pm, Tour of the Stanford Art & Architecture Library
Peter Blank, Head Librarian of the Art & Architecture Library, will lead the tour.

Places to visit on campus:
Cantor Center for the Visual Arts/Rodin Sculpture Garden
Stanford Art Gallery
Art & Architecture Library
Hoover Tower
Stanford Mausoleum, Angel of Grief, and Arboretum
Arizona Cactus Garden
Organized Campus Tours (see especially Campus Walking Tour and Self-Guided Tours)

Monday, October 18, 2010

Fall Meeting, November 19, 2010, Stanford University

VRA NoCal members will be gathering this fall on November 19, at Stanford University. This will be a joint ARLIS NA / NC chapter meeting and our topic will be copyright.

We will be in touch with an agenda as the meeting’s schedule solidifies.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Spring 2010 VRA NoCal Chapter Meeting

The VRA NoCal chapter group will be meeting February 26, at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design, 305 Wurster Hall, for a lecture and discussion on local subject authorities, visual cataloging, and the STEVE Project. Our guest speakers will be Judy Weedman, professor at the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science, and Layna White, Head of Collections Information at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Agenda:

9:00-9:30 Meet and greet, with coffee, tea, juice, nibbles

9:30-10:30 Judy Weedman will discuss ideas from her paper, “The Practice of Design: Creating Local Vocabularies for Images” (2004).

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-11:45 Layna White will present “Hot Data: Providing Access to Contemporary Art”. Layna will discuss issues related to metadata and documentation of still images using examples of works from the SFMOMA collection.

11:45-1:15 Lunch (Free Speech Café is a nearby option)

1:15-2:30 Business Meeting

2:30-4:30
Visit the “Stock Options: Houses for Everyone” exhibit in Volkmann Reading Room, Environmental Design Library (210 Wurster Hall).Visitor Information: http://www.ced.berkeley.edu/events/exhibitions

Visit the following exhibits at the University of California Berkeley Art Museum: “French Film Posters from the BAM/PFA Collection”, “Joe McKay: Big Time”, “Ahmet Öğüt: Exploded City / MATRIX 231”, “Thom Faulders: BAMscape”, “James Castle: A Retrospective”, and “Nature into Action: Hans Hofmann”. Visitor Information: http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/visit

Don’t forget:

You can renew your national and local chapter membership through the VRA’s MemberClicks Website here: http://web.memberclicks.com/mc/page.do;jsessionid=FA1DBB2DA4DFFA14C51F03495C55B7D1.mc0?sitePageId=1470

We welcome non-VRA members to attend our chapter meeting. We are charging visitors a nominal fee of $10 to attend the meeting.

Please consider bringing a contribution for the VRAffle if you cannot attend the VRA Annual Conference in Atlanta, Georgia (3/17-20/10).  The contribution is for the VRA NoCal gift bag/basket, which will represent the fun/interesting things of our region (no alcohol please- Georgia state law prohibits liquor to be part of a donation.).  If you are going to Atlanta, you have a little more time to shop/create.  Does anyone have an idea for a special theme, other than the resources of Northern California? More information on the VRAffle: http://www.vraweb.org/conferences/2010atlanta/vraffle.html

Public Transit / Parking Information:

The meeting will be held at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design, 305 Wurster Hall. Wurster Hall is just north of the intersection of Bancroft and College Avenues, beyond the Phoebe Heart Museum of Anthropology.

The nearest BART station to UCB’s campus is the Downtown Berkeley stop: http://www.bart.gov/stations/dbrk/index.aspx

AC Transit Trip Planner: http://www2.actransit.org/tripplanner.wu

Campus info on honoring other UC permits: http://pt.berkeley.edu/park/permit/affiliates#reciprocity

UCB parking maps: http://pt.berkeley.edu/maps

List of public parking lots: http://pt.berkeley.edu/park/public

Please feel free to contact co-chairs Heather Cummins (hcummins@academyart.edu, 415-618-3761) or Karen Kessel (karen.kessel@sonoma.edu, 707-664-2145) with any questions or concerns- thank you!

Friday, February 5, 2010

Spring 2010 VRA NoCal Chapter Meeting – Save the Date (2/26/10)

The VRA NoCal chapter will meet Friday, February 26, at UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design, 305 Wurster Hall, for a lecture and discussion on local subject authorities, visual cataloging, and the STEVE project. Our guest speakers will be Judy Weedman, professor at the San Jose State University School of Library and Information Science, and Layna White, Head of Collections Information at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Further information on the meeting / agenda will be posted soon.