Visual Resources Management: Determining Professional Competencies and Guidelines for Graduate Education
 

Project Director and Principal Investigator (PI):
Hemalata Iyer
Associate Professor
Department of Information Studies
College of Computing and Information
University at Albany, SUNY
135 Western Avenue,
Albany, NY 12222


Research Assistants:

Emily Houk, Research Assistant
Lauren Cardinal, Research Assistant
Catherine Brenner, Research Assistant

Updates: Updates of conference presentations and research findings will be posted from time to time as the project progresses.

Project Documents: Final project documents will be posted here.

Survey Materials:
Visual Resources Professionals Survey
LIS Deans/Directors/Chairs Survey

Project work: The project began in September 2005 and is scheduled to be completed in April 2008. Any communication or questions regarding the project should be addressed to Hemalata Iyer, e-mail Hi651@albany.edu

 

 

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The Institute of Museum and Library Services, an independent federal grant-making agency dedicated to creating and sustaining a nation of learners by helping libraries and museums serve their communities, is supporting the following project:

Visual Resources Management:  Determining Professional Competencies and Guidelines for Graduate education.

This project is in response to a critical need for higher education opportunities in the visual resources profession. Currently, there is little opportunity for persons interested in a career in visual resources management to specialize in this field through higher education, and most training is acquired through on-the-job training.

The project goals are to provide library and information science schools with information necessary to support the development of successful training programs, and to develop guidelines and core competencies for the education of visual resources professionals. These guidelines will be given to the Visual Resources Association and the Art Libraries Society of North America for consideration as a national standard.

The project will be carried out in two stages.  In phase I, information will be gathered from visual resource job listings, virtual resource professionals, and from current programs in library and information science schools.  Phase II will consist of the establishment of guidelines and core competencies to serve as a potential standards, the creation of a strategic document consisting of recommendations and strategies for facilitating the integration of these competencies into existing library and information science programs, and the development of a series of instructional models for use to inform graduate-level coursework.