VRA-L
VRA-L is the Association’s listserv. It is open to VRA members and professionals in related disciplines at any career stage that focus on the Association, the profession, and related topics and technologies.
You can join the VRA-L using the form below and manage your own subscription. Once you are subscribed, send posts to VRA-L@simplelists.com for immediate distribution to the list. You must use the same email associated with your subscription to post to VRA-L or your post will not go through.
If you need assistance using VRA-L, please contact the VRA’s Membership Services Coordinator.
Subscribe to the VRA-L
Please note: VRA-L replies are set to automatically go to list address, VRA-L@simplelists.com. If your response is for the sender only, you will need to redirect the reply.
Manage your VRA-L preferences at https://www.simplelists.com/subs/. To log in to the Subscriber area, you will be sent an email with a one-time access code.
The VRA-L archives can be accessed by subscribers at https://lists.simplelists.com/VRA-L/
VRA-L Guidelines
VRA-L Listserv mission
VRA-L is intended primarily to expedite communication among VRA members and professionals in related disciplines on important issues related to the Association, to visual resources curatorship, to related technologies, and to the profession.
VRA is committed to creating and supporting inclusive, diverse, and equitable communities to further research and education in the field of visual resources. We strive to be a welcoming organization where professionals can broaden their knowledge and worldview through interactions with peers in a wide array of experiences and perspectives. To accomplish that goal, we aim to provide collaborative, thoughtful, and respectful environments for our members to promote research, learning, social justice, and the public good.
The VRA Code of Conduct applies to all meetings, events, working groups, and other activities organized through the VRA, including VRA-L.
Rules for posting to VRA-L
VRA-L only posts messages from VRA-L subscribers.
Please submit messages to VRA-L only if you are reasonably certain your message is of sufficient professional concern to a group of VRA-L subscribers—or that a reply would be of sufficient professional service to yourself—that it warrants delivery to several hundred members and subscribers of the Listserv.
Each submission must contain the following:
A substantive question, comment, or information which meets the description of an “Appropriate Submission” as described below.
An accurate, concise identification of the message’s content in the subject bar.
The submitter’s full name, institutional or professional affiliation, and email address at the end of the message.
Postings about substantive issues covering the gamut of visual resources curatorship and which are relevant to at least a subset of the membership are generally appropriate, except as described below.
The following types of submissions are considered inappropriate:
Commercial advertisements, SPAM, or solicitations. (However, subscribers may use the VRA-L to send brief messages announcing the availability of projects, products, and services that are likely to be of interest to this community, and provide links to additional information.)
Topics generally irrelevant to the visual resources community.
Personal and private communications between individuals.
Replies to an individual’s request for information which is not likely to be of significant interest to the membership at large.
Personal criticism of individuals, or even substantive contributions which violate professional comity.
Personal or confidential information about others.
Messages whose content, were it generally distributed, might present legal problems for the VRA as a tax-exempt professional organization, or for any of its individual subscribers.
Partisan political or sectarian advocacy. (This does not preclude objective discussion of public issues or proposed legislation relevant to the visual resources community.)
Messages of inconsequential or non-substantive content, such as merely posting “I agree” without contributing substantively to the discussion. (Such replies should be sent directly to the author of the original message.)
Messages devoted solely to humor or light conversation.
Exceptionally long messages (i.e. many pages in length) are discouraged because they cause problems for some subscribers with limited email storage. Persons wishing to share large documents, such as term lists or catalogs, should instead announce that interested individuals may request the material directly from the person making the offer, and the document(s) should then be sent directly to the interested parties’ email addresses, not via VRA-L. There is a 7 MB limit on attachments sent over the list.
Replies to online surveys or to requests for an isolated bit of information for one’s own need should be sent directly to the inquirer, NOT the entire Listserv. When appropriate, the inquirer can later post a single summary of multiple responses to the listserv.
Replies to messages on the VRA-L are automatically sent to the entire Listserv unless the respondent re-addresses the response directly to the individual sender. When responding to a message, please consider whether your reply should be sent to the entire membership; if it is more appropriately addressed to the individual sender, please replace VRA-L@simplelists.com with that person’s email address.
Messages posted to VRA-L must be civil and professional in tone. Communication via VRA-L cannot provide the same freedom of expression as would be possible in a private conversation among confidants.
Neither the Visual Resources Association, the VRA-L manager, nor the administrators of the listserv’s host site can verify the content of postings for accuracy or be held accountable for message content. Parties submitting messages to VRA-L bear sole responsibility and liability for the content of their postings.
Egregious disregard of VRA-L rules may ultimately result in revocation of the offender’s VRA-L subscription by the VRA Executive Board.