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Julia Deal
Julia Deal is Coordinator for the Visual Resources Center. She offers reference assistance to Faculty and Students seeking to use the department teaching collections of digital still images, DVDs & VHS tapes, and 35mm slides. She assists Faculty in ordering these materials for teaching and develops & maintains the storage and access systems that permit department-wide users to access these, some 60,000 teaching items and 120 pieces of equipment. (contact Julia)
Julia develops collection content (art images), and directs the transition of technology away from the 35mm slide analog-image collection toward the current digital-image collection. Using Student Workers as professional extenders, Julia administers the collection catalogs, establishing and maintaining image quality standards as well as professional data entry standards for the metadata within the catalogs. She works with Faculty and Students to schedule use of VRC image capture equipment when it is available for general use.
Julia earned her Master’s degree in Museum Science at Texas Tech University, with an emphasis in museum exhibitions & interpretation, and with a minor in art. She has been employed in museums and parks, and has worked 10 years as a graphic designer and illustrator. Recently Julia took training in both art therapy and health psychology, and she has served on the Adjunct Faculty of Texas State teaching undergraduate Health Psychology. She received her undergraduate degree from Duke University, having completed requirements for 2 majors (pre-med zoology and art-design).
She has done volunteer work with hospital and mental health clinics as well as Bastrop Women’s Shelter and the local Roxanne’s house. Working closely with her colleague from Duke University Alumni Association Peter Griffith, Julia has organized group reunions as well as a group-sponsored endowment that will support science research grants available to undergradutaes at the Duke University Marine Laboratory, Beaufort, NC. When Julia finds time to recreate, her passions are enjoying the outdoors, creating a beautiful garden (including a garden of good friends), and enjoying the expressive arts of singing, dancing, photo-snapping and painting.
