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  A reposting of the call for papers, the deadline of May 1st has been
 extended to May 24th, Friday, but please try to get your ideas to me
 as soon as you can.

 Pat Keats, VRA VP and Conference Chair

 Call for Papers

   Fifteenth Annual VRA Conference
     February 11-15, 1997, New York


      The fifteenth annual Visual Resources Association conference
 will take place Tuesday,  February 11 through Saturday, February 15
 in New York City.  Once again, the VRA conference will be concurrent
 with the College Art Assoication's annual meeting.  This coming year
 we hope to have reciprocal sessions at each conference, and the
 hotels are near enough to one another to allow for easy access from
 one conference to the other.  The local New York City VRA members
 have already formed a local arrangements committee, headed by
 Margaret Richardson of the Pratt Institute, the local chapter
 president.  Some activities are already being planned as is the
 Luraine Tansey dinner and some visits to local slide and photograph
 collections.
       Proposals and moderators for VRA sessions are what is need now
 from you, the membership.  Topics have been suggested from the
 evaluations received so far from conference attendees, but we are
 open to any suggestions you feel are needed.   Examples of some
 possible topics are as follows:  shared image databases, digital
 imaging, intellectual property rights, copyright, new ways to use
 digitized images- research, teaching, etc., automation of
 collections, the WEB, budget problems and how to cope, use of
 interns, impact of digital imaging on the profession, setting up a
 database, subject cataloging, image collections in disciplines other
 than art - i.e. architecture, how we can improve our image instead of
 focusing on how bad it is, security issues, MESL, and selecting
 vendors.
     Roundtable discussion leaders are also needed, suggested topics
 include: organizing and teaching in the digital environment, meetings
 of special collections ( i.e. architecture) curators, regional
 chapter meetings, and VRMS meetings.
     Workshop leaders are also needed, and the suggestions so far have
 included: use of AAT and ULAN, intro to lexicons such as AAT,
 Iconclass and ULAN, Embark workshop, setting up a home page and HTML,
 scanning, how to automate a slide library, cataloging,  and basics of
 digital imaging.
      Formal session and rountable proposals should be made in the
 form of short w ritten statements of no more than one page by those
 interested in acting as session moderators or roundtable moderators.
 Workshop proposals should also be made in the form of a short written
 statement, and should include any necessary requirements.  All
 proposals should include any A-V and/or computer equipment needed,
 and an estimated cost of what this may run.  Please send proposals
 to: Patricia Keats, Vice-President, VRA, 2415 Lake Street, San
 Francisco, CA  94121.  EMAIL:  [log in to unmask]; FAX:
 (415)357-1848, PHONE: (4115) 357-1848, ext. 19.  Proposals must be
 received in San Francisco no later than May 1st to ensure proper
 consideration.
      More specific information about the conference and a call
 for papers will be included in upcoming issues of the
 Bulletin.  If you attended this year's conference in San
 Antonio, and have not yet returned your conference
 questionnaire, please do so.  Your comments and suggestions
 are welcome and will most definitely be considered in planning
 the 1997 conference in Boston. Many of the suggestions above
 are directly from the questionnaires.


 Patricia Keats
 VRA, Vice-President
 Director of the Library
 California Historical Society