Mark Pompelia interviewed Distinguished Service Award winner Ann Baird Whiteside (2015) on July 13, 2023.  Ann, who served as ARLIS/NA president in 2006, describes her philosophy of embracing challenges in ARLIS/NA, her perspective on the evolution of visual resources around the turn of the twenty-first century, and the renaissance of special collections usage.  She also describes her leadership within the Visual Resources Association (VRA) and the Association of Architectural School Librarians (AASL) as well as involvement in projects such as the VRA CORE, the Summer Educational Institute (SEI) Workshop, and Cataloging Cultural Objects (CCO). You can access the full transcript here - http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/7byx-ec43. This recording is made available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).