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.
Midwinter Meeting 2012: Coming to a Capitol Near You!*
“The Year of the RE”
March 2 – 3, 2012 in Washington, D.C.
*OK, so maybe it will be near you if
1.You live in the DC/Metro area (and, being a former Midwesterner and now a South westerner, I assume that the entire East coast is the DC/Metro area!)
2.You plan on flying/driving/taking a train/hitching a ride to the DC area for the Midwinter meeting
Things to see and do in Washington during VM Mid-Winter
Things to see and do in Washington during VM Mid-Winter
Washington DC is packed with places to see and things to do the first week of March. In the next issue of VIEWS you will find a selection of the many things that may be of interest to you.
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
VIEWS Newsletter-August 2011
Please download the VIEWS Newsletter in PDF format.
Life in the Shop
See Deena Stryker: Photographs of Cuba 1963-1964 in the August 2011 VIEWS in PDF format
SAA 2011 Events of Potential Interest to Visual Materials Section Members
We have posted interesting 2011 Conference events for VM Section members.
