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“Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Twenty-First Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures?”

Last week I had the privilege to attend the 47th Annual Rare Book and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) Preconference in Austin, Texas. I was able to attend thanks to a scholarship from RBMS funded through an IMLS grant. For those of you not familiar with RBMS, it is a section of the larger Association of College [...]

Jackson Pollock by Miltos Manetas

www.jacksonpollock.org I’m dying of curiosity about what the Intellectual Property implications of this site may be. But in the meantime I’m having an awful lot of fun creating my own drip paintings. Great site for creative pursuit when you’re put on hold on the phone…

MCN Strategic Planning process

Ten days ago, most of the MCN Board of Directors assembled at the beautiful Getty campus for two solid days of strategic planning. Our process was facilitated by Diane Zorich, a much-respected colleague whose business it is, among other things, to help organizations like ours focus in on our direction and to get started down [...]

Captain Copyright

If there is one subject that sends me through the roof (or into mild depression) it’s copyright “education.” Here’s the latest alert, from BoingBoing: “Access Copyright has launched a new site that borders on parody, but is apparently serious. Captain Copyright, is a new “superhero” that educates children about the virtues of copyright, rushing to [...]

Project Charters

I’m having a couple of ongoing conversations with professional colleagues who are in the middle of fairly problematic projects – not at my institution I hasten to add. You know that I’m talking about technology projects because technology projects and museums often don’t seem to go well. I think about why this is quite a [...]