No, no….not your grant money….(and with apologies for cross-posting because I am getting this email from every direction today)…they need your help with great new ideas. See the posting below. Dear Colleague, Did you know that there is an exciting conversation going on about future directions for the Institute of Museum and Library Services? On [...]
Things aren’t usually this hard, but it has been a couple of years since several of us began talking about how nice it would be to get together with colleagues between MCN conferences (or, for the lucky among us, MCN and Museums and the Web). The first “northeast” SIG meeting is nigh. We’ll be getting [...]
Apologies for cross posting. This semester I am teaching a course called “The Convergence of Archives, Libraries, and Museums in Collecting Institutions” for Johns Hopkins University. We just completed Week 10 of the 14-week course. The topic for last week’s discussion was “New models and structures for collaboration.” Yesterday afternoon I was sitting on my [...]
If you, like me, are spending time these days thinking about scholarly publishing then you will want to read the report issued earlier this month by the Association of American University Presses entitled “Sustaining Scholarly Publishing: New Business Models for University Presses.” I’ve created a link to the page where you can download the report, [...]
For a few years, I’ve heard some rumblings and complaints from various quarters about feeling excluded from technology groups, digital humanities groups, and other like-minded organizations. And in the past couple of days, the topic has come up again, in a number of different discussions. It has gotten me thinking a lot about siloed outreach [...]
Musematic seems the proper place to put this on the record. There’s no sense in in re-stating what’s already been stated well by Susan Chun, so I’m just going to quote her, below. The debate is available online, here. This year, the MCN conference’s closing plenary was a formal debate, featuring two teams of debaters [...]
I’m gonna let Joseph Gordon-Levitt speak for himself: http://hitrecord.org/reel
Hello Musematic Readers: Since early last Spring I’ve been working as Co-PI, with Larry Johnson, CEO of the New Media Consortium on the latest incarnation of the 2010 Horizon Report–the first-ever Museum Edition. This report would not have been possible without the hard work of an enthusiastic and engaged Advisory Board (see pg. 34 of [...]
Spent a fascinating day today in San Antonio at a MIDEA Workshop on Social Media. MIDEA is an acronym for the Marcus Institute for Digital Education and the Arts. In terms of full disclosure, I’m the lead blogger for the MIDEA blog, so I’m writing this both as an employee and a participant. The workshop [...]
Our girl Nina Simon just penned, in my opinion, an important article about the usefulness of working on the museum floor from time to time. Now, I’m the first to admit that the thought of working the floor can terrify me – I can be shy, and I’m not great with intentionally chatting up strangers [...]
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