ARLIS/NA-VRAF Summer Educational Institute

The purpose of the SEI is to provide information professionals with valuable training and education in the area of visual resources and image management. Under the direction of the Executive Boards of the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA) and the Visual Resources Association Foundation (VRAF), the Implementation Team (IT) is charged as the management group for the Summer Educational Institute (SEI) providing or coordinating administration, local arrangements, registration, scheduling, fundraising, publicity, curriculum, instruction and teaching materials.

The Summer Educational Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management (SEI) 2013 will be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Leadership

Implementation Team Co-chairs:
Betha Whitlow, Washington University in St. Louis, VRAF
Amy Trendler, Ball State University, ARLIS/NA

Faculty Liaison (incoming ARLIS/NA appointed co-chair):

ARLIS/NA Curriculum Specialist: Ian McDermott

Development: Adrianna Stevenson

Local Planning Chair: Rebecca Price, University of Michigan

Treasurer: Rebecca Moss, University of Minnesota

VRA Curriculum Specialist: Karen Kessel

Webmaster: Emily Lemieux

Publicity Specialist: Virginia Kerr

ARLIS/NA Board Liaison: Sarah Carter, Ringling College of Art and Design

VRAF Board Liaison: Rebecca Moss, University of Minnesota

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Past SEI Implementation Team Co-Chairs

2012 SEI at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Elizabeth Schaub, The University of Texas at Austin, ARLIS/NA
Betha Whitlow, Washington University in St. Louis, VRAF

2011 SEI at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Kathe Hicks Albrecht, American University, VRAF
Elizabeth Schaub, The University of Texas at Austin, ARLIS/NA

2010 SEI at University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Alix Reiskind, Harvard Graduate School of Design, ARLIS/NA
Kathe Hicks Albrecht, American University, VRAF

2009 SEI at Simmons College, Boston, MA

Jeanne M. Keefe, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, VRAF
Alix Reiskind, Harvard Graduate School of Design, ARLIS/NA

2008 James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

Amy Lucker, New York University, ARLIS/NA
Jeanne M. Keefe, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, VRA

2007 Indiana University, Bloomington, IN

Karin Whalen, Reed College, VRA
Amy Lucker, New York University, ARLIS/NA

2006 Reed College, Portland, OR

Trudy Jacoby, Princeton University, ARLIS/NA
Karin Whalen, Reed College, VRA

2005 Duke University, Durham, NC

Maureen Burns, University of California Irvine, VRA
Trudy Jacoby, co-chair, ARLIS/NA

2004 Duke University, Durham, NC

Mary Wassermann, Philadelphia Museum of Art, ARLIS/NA
John Taormina, Duke University, VRA

2002-2004 ARLIS/NA-VRA Joint Education Task Force, Co-Chairs

Mary Wassermann, Philadelphia Museum of Art, ARLIS/NA
John Taormina, Duke University, VRA

NOTES:

In 2002 an ARLIS/NA-VRA Joint Education Task Force (JETF) was formed and charged to develop an infrastructure and curriculum for a week-long summer institute of continuing education in image collection/visual resources management; to negotiate instructors and teaching materials for the institute; and to arrange its first venue and program schedule at Rice University (Houston, Texas) for early summer 2003. However, a decision was made in 2003 to move the inaugural SEI to Duke University, which would take place in the summer of 2004. One of the reasons was that the VRA conference had just been in Houston in 2003 and ARLIS' was going to be in Houston in 2005.

The first formal meeting of the JETF took place at the joint ARLIS/NA-VRA conference in St. Louis in 2002. Subsequent meetings occurred at VRA conferences in Houston (2003) and Portland (2004) and ARLIS/NA conferences in Baltimore (2003) and New York (2004). During the summer or fall of 2004 the JETF recommended it's dissolution and the creation of the Summer Educational Institute Implementation Team (SEI IT) to handle the planning of SEI 2005.

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