VRA NoCal Fall Chapter Meeting & GoToMeeting

Hopefully many of you will be able to attend our Fall chapter meeting on Wednesday, November 14th in San Francisco! However, if you cannot attend in person we are offering the option to participate in our business meeting virtually via GoToMeeting. A virtual joint meeting with the VRA Southern California chapter will also be held that morning with GoToMeeting.

As mentioned in the original announcement, RSVPs for the November 14th meeting are due by November 1st. When you RSVP to adansiger@academyart.edu, please be sure to specify if you will be attending in person or virtually. If you are planning to attend virtually, please include your preferred email address with your RSVP so we can later provide you with the directions on how to join each meeting.

GoToMeeting also allows participants to dial in by phone, so there is that option as well if you will be without computer access on November 14th but would still like to participate.

Call for 2013-2015 VRA NoCal Chapter Officers

The VRA Northern California chapter is seeking candidates for two officer positions, Chair-elect and Secretary/Treasurer. Chapter officers each serve a two-year term, with the distinction of Chair-elect automatically becoming Chair in the second year of his/her term. The terms for the new Chair-elect and Secretary/Treasurer will begin January 2013.

Serving the chapter and VRA as a whole is a very rewarding experience! As a chapter officer, you will get to know your colleagues better both locally and nationally. You will also gain important skills related to project management, outreach, and technology that will further your professional development. Finally, contributing your time as a chapter officer is an excellent way to give back to the profession and help keep VRA moving forward as a valuable network and resource.

Please see Article IV: Officers of our Chapter Bylaws for detailed descriptions of each officer position and the requirements. If you would like to submit your candidacy for either Chair-elect or Secretary/Treasurer, please email our nominating committee volunteers: Trudy Levy at iminteg@gmail.com and Andree LeBourveau at anlebour@cabrillo.edu. 

Fall 2012 Chapter Meeting in San Francisco: Wednesday, November 14th

The Fall meeting for the VRA Northern California chapter will take place on Wednesday, November 14, 2012 in downtown San Francisco. Our day will start at the Academy of Art University Library, located at 180 New Montgomery Street at Howard. We will be utilizing the new GoToMeeting software provided by VRA to hold a virtual joint meeting with the VRA Southern California chapter, and enable participation in our local chapter business meeting if you cannot attend in person.

After lunch, we will regroup three blocks away at the Society of California Pioneers, located at 300 Fourth Street at Folsom. Patricia Keats, Director of Library and Archives, will share examples of the image resources in the Society's collection and talk about the grant-funded digitization efforts that produced two unique databases. We will also view the current exhibition, Singing the Golden State, which Ms. Keats helped curate.

Here is the current schedule of events:

9:00-9:30AM  -  Meet-and-Greet at AAU Library
9:30-10:30AM  -  Northern CA Chapter Business Meeting
10:30-11:00AM  -  Break
11:00AM-12:00PM  -  Virtual Joint Meeting with Southern CA Chapter
12:00-2:00PM  -  Lunch
2:00-4:00PM  -  Group Visit to Society of California Pioneers

Please RSVP to adansiger@academyart.edu by November 1, 2012. This meeting is open to all current VRA members; non-members are welcome to attend for a $5.00 fee. If you would like to join or renew your annual VRA membership before the meeting, please follow the instructions here:

http://www.vraweb.org/members/index.html

More details will follow soon. In the meantime, please email adansiger@academyart.edu if you have any questions or discussion items for the business meeting.

Dates for CaVraCon 2013 Selected: June 27-28

Thank you to everyone who voted to determine the best dates to hold CaVraCon 2013 at Sonoma State University. Our winning set of dates is June 27-28, which received 7 out of 15 votes.

Thank you again for your participation!

CaVraCon 2013 Location Selected! Cast Your Vote Now for Dates!

The location for the second CaVraCon, the California Visual Resources Association Conference, has been selected! CaVraCon 2013 will be held at Sonoma State University, in a beautiful room in the Library at the Jean and Charles Schulz Information Center. Special thanks to Karen Kessel, Visual Resources Specialist, and Barbara Butler, Library Director, for helping us secure this space for our event!

We are currently conducting a poll to find out which dates members prefer to attend CaVraCon 2013. The poll is available on the recently launched CaVraCon 2013 website here, and is open through Wednesday, July 18th, so go vote now!

Joint VRA and ARLIS/NA Northern CA Chapters Meeting Minutes Now Available

The minutes from the joint VRA and ARLIS/NA Northern California chapters meeting at Mills College Library are now available. Please see the Meeting Minutes section in the sidebar of this blog, or click this link.

It was wonderful to get together with members of our chapter who were unable to attend the VRA conference the previous week, as well as share the day with local ARLIS members!

Joint CA Chapters Meeting Minutes Now Available

The minutes from the joint California chapters meeting held on April 20, 2012 during the VRA 30th Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico are now available! Please see the Meeting Minutes section in the sidebar of this blog, or click this link.

Thank you again to all the meeting attendees for an engaging discussion of current projects, challenges in the profession, and sharing of ideas for further collaboration between the Northern and Southern California VRA chapters.