G?enter, As I said in private, and now publicly, Welcome to the Neighborhood. We?ll miss you in Austin but know you have many friends and sympathetic colleagues here at the Gallery!
We hope you will find time to participate in FADGI, yes the acronyms are endless here, aka Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative which you all can see at www.digitizationguidelines.gov All best, Alan On 10/18/10 1:11 PM, "G?enter Waibel" <waibelg at oclc.org> wrote: > Dear colleagues & friends, > > I am sorry to say that I'll miss this year's MCN conference in Austin. I've > attended every single conference from 1998 Santa Monica on, so Austin would > have been my 13th MCN conference in a row. > > My reason for missing the conference is not superstition, but that I'll be in > between employers. My last day at OCLC Research will be this Friday, October > 22nd, and I'll start as Director, Digitization Program Office at the > Smithsonian Institution on December 6th. > > In my new role, I'll be the owner of the "Creating a Digital Smithsonian" > strategic plan (http://bit.ly/bpMksJ). I think of it as a companion piece to > the Web & New Media Strategy (http://bit.ly/9XnCZU) many of you have heard > Mike Edson present at recent conferences. While the Web & New Media Strategy > is predominantly concerned with how to engage the public, Creating a Digital > Smithsonian is predominantly concerned with back-of-the-house tasks such as > creating and managing digital assets so they can be optimally leveraged. > > I'll send my new coordinates once I have them. In the meantime, you can reach > me at guenter.waibel at gmail.com. Forward me your Austin restaurant > recommendations - I think we'll be passing through in November while driving > to DC. I'll see you all at MCN 2012. > > G?nter > > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu)
