I'd like to request 5 minutes of your time to complete a survey to inform the Chicago conference panel that I will be moderating. Among the many issues and competing priorities that Museum directors have, where does information technology fit? If your institution has technology staff, what kind of relationship do they have with the director and senior staff? Is it good or bad, trusting or suspicious? If your institution has to outsource your technology needs, is the relationship any different? The Chicago conference session Directors and IT Professionals: A Conversation about Leadership, will involve a discussion between directors and museum information technology professionals on how they work together now and how they might need to work together in the future. The session will be held at 3:45-5:15 on Wednesday November 7th. In preparation for the session, please take 5 minutes to fill out an anonymous survey ? the results will be presented at the session. If you wish to actively participate in the discussion, please leave contact details at the end of the survey. You may find it useful to read the ACLS Commission report on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences. Describing Cyberinfrastructure as the layer of information, expertise, standards, policies, tools, and services that are shared broadly across communities of inquiry, the report makes recommendations on how to support it and carry it forward:
http://www.acls.org/cyberinfrastructure/OurCulturalCommonwealth.pdf Please take the survey at: http://tinyurl.com/2pkdhk Thank you. Nik Honeysett Head of Administration J. Paul Getty Museum tel: 310-440-7346 fax: 310-440-7751 nhoneysett at getty.edu
