Presented by Jodie Double at the Annual Conference of the Visual Resources Association, April 18th - April 21st, 2012, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Session: Emerging new roles for VR professionals: research into and beyond the arts At a time of international financial instability, with positions constantly under threat, analogue collections facing forced closure and space at a premium, this session will hear from VR professionals who are reinventing themselves and evolving roles in changing landscapes, pushing into new disciplines and spaces. Each speaker will discuss the new roles they have taken on, either by accident or design and how their experiences are shaping their view of the VR profession in “the tens”. In many cases this has meant working across disciplines; making their professional presence felt in the classroom and the boardroom; developing new skills but in all cases, broadening their horizons through collaboration. Speakers will discuss supporting courses beyond traditional visual arts, design and art history; collaborating with libraries, IT and faculty in course development and delivery; working with artists and archivists to preserve and expose their work, collections and archives; building repositories; involvement in project funding applications; working in arts research and coordinating non-traditional research outputs. ORGANIZER: Stephanie Beene, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR MODERATOR: Victoria Brown, University of Oxford PRESENTERS: 1: Stephanie Beene, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, OR 2: Victoria Brown, University of Oxford, UK 3: Jodie Double, University of Leeds, UK 4: Catherine Worrall, University College Falmouth, UK

1. Moving with the Changing Landscape
VR professionals as agents of change
Jodie Double
Digital Library and Repositories Manager
University of Leeds, UK

2. Change was and is happening

3. Careers are taking turns

4. roots / old home

5. new home

6. Brotherton Library: Reading Room

7. Digital Content and Repositories Team
3 Repositories:
• White Rose Research Online (WRRO)
• White Rose eTheses Online (WREO)
• Leeds Digital Collections (aka LUDOS with official name YTD)
Digitisation Service:
• Studio
• On-demand digitisation
• Digitisation Programme
Copyright Advisory Service:
• Training and licensing

8. the Digital Library @ Leeds: 3 repositories
• White Rose Research Online (WRRO)
– open access publication archive of research from
– University of Leeds, University of Sheffield and University of York
• White Rose eTheses Online (WREO)
– electronic theses, PhD only at the moment
– University of Leeds, University of Sheffield and University of York
• Leeds Digital Collections ( a.k.a. LUDOS)
– Research outputs that do not fit into collection policy of WR
– Images, audio, video, data
– everything else....

9. the Projects
• LIFE-SHARE
– Consortia digitisation straegies
– University of Leeds, University of Sheffield and University of York
• RePosit
– Encouraging full-text deposit with publication systems
– University of Leeds, Symplectic, University of Exeter, University of Plymouth, Queen
Mary University London, and Keele University
• AQuA
– Automated Quality Assurance of Digital Collections
– University of Leeds, University of York, and the British Library
• SPRUCE
– Digital Preservation tools mash-ups and business case templates for digital
preservation
– University of Leeds, the British Library, LSE, and Digital Preservation Coalition

10. Brotherton Library: Rotunda

11. Workflow
(1.0)

12. Workflow
(2.0)

13. Sub-workflow

14. Workflows
(old and new)

15. Lessons Learned while exploring

16. Advocacy and Promotion of Services

17. Align activities and services with strategy?

18. Preservation of cultural heritage and
research

19. we are building upon history

20. Here and
Now!
• Digital preservation
• Crowd-sourcing
• Digital humanities
• Mashed data
• Hybrid collections
• Born digital archives
• Research data

21. thank you.
Contact info:
Jodie Double
Digital Library and Repositories Manager
University of Leeds, UK
j.l.double@leeds.ac.uk