Her sources for the positions are all 20th century (1994, 1996 and 1997), so I would take the whole thing with a big grain of salt.
Photographer's there, but the whole job area of digital media and asset management were barely known in the 90s. That's not to say that we're not all endangered these days! Deborah Wythe Brooklyn Museum deborahwythe at hotmail.com > Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:25:48 -0500 > From: hraatz at artsmia.org > To: VRA-L at LISTSERV.UARK.EDU; mcn-l at mcn.edu > Subject: [MCN-L] Museum Jobs: A Summary > > Good morning all, > > My morning was significantly disturbed by a Tweet posted to > https://twitter.com/museummedia, "Museum jobs: a summary http://bit.ly/7pKto > ." This shortened URL takes you to Jennifer Trant's blog on the > conference.archimuse.com website. Attached to the blog post by Ms. Trant is > a 4 page .pdf document listing various museum jobs from Director to > Membership Clerk, including staff positions as varied as Planetarium > Director, Studio Manager and Projectionist. There are NO Visual Resources > professionals included on the list. Zero. Unless we're somehow invisibly > included with Digitizing Technician/data entry clerk, Librarian or Archivist. > I've made a comment to Ms. Trant's blog and hope to receive a response from > her which I will share with the VRA and MCN listservs. > > Coming on the heels of the announcement regarding the elimination of Leigh > Gate's Visual Resources position at the Art Institute of Chicago, and > compounded by the knowledge that Melody Ennis (Museum of Art, RISD), Jane > Ferger (Indianapolis Museum of Art) and Cheryl Vogler (St. Louis Art Museum) > also lost jobs to the elimination of their staff positions within the past > year, this blog post is extremely troubling. Clearly there is some lack of > awareness and understanding about the role of Visual Resources professionals > in the museum environment that needs to be addressed. In light of overall > concerns about the future of our profession, this may be a timely and > pertinent topic for discussion at the Museum VR SIG (special interest group) > meeting at the next Visual Resources Assn. conference in Atlanta--for those > of us museum VR professionals who still retain jobs and will be in attendance. > > Back to my still vital & hopefully valued work. > > Heidi > > > > > > > Heidi S. Raatz | Visual Resources Librarian > Minneapolis Institute of Arts > 2400 Third Avenue South > Minneapolis, MN 55404 > > (612) 870-3196 | > (612) 870-3029 - permissions | > hraatz at artsmia.org | > permissions at artsmia.org| > www.artsmia.org ( http://www.artsmia.org/ ) > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ _________________________________________________________________ Microsoft brings you a new way to search the web. Try Bing? now http://www.bing.com?form=MFEHPG&publ=WLHMTAG&crea=TEXT_MFEHPG_Core_tagline_try_bing_1x1
