One outgrowth of this year’s conference is that after years of discussion, several of us have agreed to ask the Board to approve a “Northeast” SIG as part of MCN. The idea is that we’ll hold at least one day-long regional meeting (I would amend that to “one regional meeting” for this coming year as [...]
it’s a very old concept of aggregation—one that most closely resembles the discovery that putting books in bookshops makes them significantly easier to find than expecting customers to come around to each publisher to see what is new—as opposed to sharing cultural heritage in the hopes of getting back comments, re-mixing, and new shared objects—as opposed, in many ways, to the idea that cultural heritage changes, and that one goal of cultural heritage institutions is to provide inspiration and tools for that ongoing change.
Get the word out! CHICAGO – The American Library Association (ALA) Public Programs Office is announcing a free, online learning session, “Museum/Library Partnerships That Work!” to be held at 2 p.m. CST on Thursday, Nov. 18 at 2:00 p.m. To register for this session, visit: http://programminglibrarian.na4.acrobat.com/reg-partnerships/event/event_info.html. This session is presented by ProgrammingLibrarian.org and supported by the [...]
Now online from the Royal Collection: http://www.queenmarysdollshouse.org/
If you notice, as I have noticed, that organizations our size represent the “long tail” of our planet’s documented/preserved cultural history then this also means that for the first time we aren’t reliant on a few large museums gathering physical stuff into one place for access to this richness.
Please join the editors of the 2010 Horizon Report: Museum Edition online October 18th at 1 pm (Central Time) for a MIDEA Connect webinar discussing the museum report. Larry Johnson and Holly Witchey will be on hand to discuss the findings with a focus on the key trends and challenges for museums. We hope the [...]
MCN 2010 looks to be the best conference in a long time. Nancy Proctor, Program Chair, and Christina DePaolo, Conference Chair and their respective teams have worked hard to put together programs and events that are timely, relevant, interesting, and fun. There’s still time to register and (if you make your reservations by Friday) get [...]
Good article in today’s addition of “Inside Higher Ed” about Purdue University’s new facebook app called “Mixable”: http://tiny.cc/0ohnoha7iw
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