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LATE NEWS BREAKING, this just in: the NEW issue of views in now online here!

SAA 2018:

Minutes from the meeting here: SAA 2018 VMS Minutes

Thanks to everyone that attended!

Minutes of the 2018 Midwinter meeting posted HERE!

Could this scene have taken place in your shop?!?!?!?

Welcome to the website of the Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists. We hope you find this site informative and the resources in it useful. 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, our VIEWS Magazine (http://saavms.org/views-archive/) and this web site.

Whether you are a member of the Section or of SAA or not, we welcome your use of this site and your input on what you find here. Get involved with your peers, learn from experienced colleagues, and help others by sharing your wisdom and knowledge. Many hands make light work, and bouncing ideas around as we do both in our meetings and via our online lists can very often produce amazing results, creative solutions, and efficiently and effectively round up information that would be impossible to assemble otherwise. Collectively we are more powerful than the sum of our individual parts.

Please also take a look at our facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/saavms?fref=ts) and follow us on Instagram (@SAAVMS)!

And if you have questions about who we are and what we do, please contact any of our 2017-2018 Steering Committee!

http://saavms.org/vms-leadership/

Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists

3 weeks ago

The Society for Imaging Technology is still accepting papers on a rolling basis for the 2019 conference in Portugal: "Join an international community of technical experts, managers, practitioners, and academics from cultural heritage institutions, universities, and commercial enterprises, to explore and discuss the digitization, preservation and access of 2D, 3D, and AV materials."
www.imaging.org/site/IST/Conferences/Archiving/IST/Conferences/Archiving/Archiving_Home.aspx ... See MoreSee Less

Archiving Home

imaging.org

The IS&T Archiving Conference brings together an international community of imaging experts and technicians as well as curators, managers, and researchers from libraries, archives, museums, records ma...

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Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists

3 weeks ago

"Coddington said, 'I once calculated that there were 40 million photographs of Union soldiers taken during the Civil War. Even if only 10 percent survive, there are 4 million images out there today.' Yet we have names for few of them: 'David Wynn Vaughan, a premier collector of Confederate soldier images, estimates that no more than 10 or 20 percent of the images he’s seen during his more than 25 years of collecting are identified,' Bob Zeller, president of the Center for Civil War Photography." ... See MoreSee Less

Historians Are Using Facial Recognition Software to Identify People in Civil War Photographs

slate.com

Though an estimated 4 million photographs of Union soldiers survive, the figures they capture have only been identified in 20 percent of all cases.

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1 month ago

The SAA Council has approved the merger! We'll post updates on the transition as they happen. Welcome VMCAS members! ... See MoreSee Less

Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists

From our section chair, Sandra Varry:
"Thank you to all those who voted in the VMCAS Special Referendum to determine if the section will merge with the Visual Materials Section. The referendum closed ...

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