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)