Welcome to the Visual Materials (VM) Section of the Society of American Archivists.
The Visual Materials Section promotes communication among visual materials archivists, and represents and promotes appropriate care, management, and use of visual materials collections to the greater archival community through annual meetings, continuing education programs, publications, the VIEWS newsletter and this web site.
New Resources Wiki
Check out our new Resources Wiki
We provide web resources and hard copy resources/publications on topics that include:
- Digital Preservation
- Digital Photography
- Digital Asset Management for Photographs
- File Formats
- Metadata
- Licensing and Rights
2012 VM Midwinter-Update on What Happened
Notes from the Doghouse
March 4, 2012
As I sit on the plane flying back from the 2012 Midwinter Meeting I wanted to jot some things down while they are still fresh in my head.
Blog for the 2012 VM Midwinter Meeting
The URL for this year's blog for the Visual Materials Section Midwinter Meeting on March 2nd and 3rd is http://saavmsmidwinter2012.wordpress.com.
VIEWS-2012 Editions
February 2012 VIEWS Newsletter
The February 2012 VIEWS newsletter includes these interesting articles:
VM Annual Meeting Minutes-Chicago, 2011
We have posted the minutes for the Annual Meeting that was held in Chicago in August 2011 in two formats:
PDF Format:
2011 Chicago Annual Meeting Minutes in PDF format.
Audio Format (Listen Online):
Audio Part 1-Introduction and Reports
