It
is essential that VR specialists understand the complexities of the
information needs and goals of the several groups that comprise their
user community-the art historians, artists, computing professionals,
administration and students. The skills of the VR Librarian must transverse
professions to encompass the realm of the archival, the historical
and the technological. Multimedia skills enable visual resource specialists
to create effective user centered systems in a variety of formats
and applications.