VRA Membership Benefits
The benefits of membership are many, including:
- access to information on the latest technologies and equipment via subscription to the VRA-L listserv
- subscription to the VRA Bulletin (three issues)
- subscription to VRA Sourcebook and Directory (annual)
- registration discount to the annual national VRA conference, with programming on image management, copyright issues, standards, cataloguing and classification, metadata, digital imaging technology, Web design, preservation of image quality, and educational opportunities
- eligibility for enrolment in one of the regional VRA chapters http://www.vraweb.org/chapters/ across the United States
- continuing education opportunities, including
- member-discounted workshops and the Summer Institute for Visual Resources and Image Management
- discounts on Association publications
- mentor program for new members.
VRA has an active print and online publication program. http://www.vraweb.org/publications.html
Highlights include:
- Guidelines for the Visual Resources Profession (joint publication with ARLIS/NA)
- Image Collection Guidelines: The Acquisition and Use of Images in Non-Profit Educational Visual Resources Collections
- Cataloguing Cultural Objects: A Guide to Describing Cultural Works and Their Images. (online)
- Conservation Practices for Slide and Photograph Collections
- Guide to Copy Photography for Visual Resources Professionals
- Subject Classification for Visual Collections
- A Guide to Cataloguing Chinese Art.
