Please excuse cross postings. Join Scott Sayre and Kris Wetterlund - and colleagues from across North America and beyond - in this 6-day exploration of the strategic ways in which museum information can be organized, accessed and shared...
MUSEUM INFORMATION MANAGEMENT Museums hold a wealth of diverse information that is increasingly recognized as a key institutional and community resource. Recognizing the dimensions, value, and potential of this information and planning for its strategic integration and management provide the focus for this new immersion course. Whether you work with collections, research, programming, marketing and audience development, or management within a museum or heritage setting, this course strengthens your ability to: * define the types of information managed across your institution * recognize its current and potential strategic value to the institution and to the communities it serves * appreciate the role of computer and Web-based information systems to organize, process, and access information * identify opportunities to integrate information to enhance its use and value, and to generate innovative perspectives * apply principles of strategic planning to identify information management opportunities and strategies * identify resources (human and other) required to accomplish your strategic goals Dates: September 17 - 22, 2007 Location: University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia Fee: $620 CDN, includes $560 tuition and $60 materials Course information: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/courses/ha488n.aspx You can participate on a credit or non-credit basis - for more information on this course and others offered in the Fall of 2007 and Spring of 2008, please visit our website at http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp Cultural Resource Management Program Division of Continuing Studies University of Victoria T: (250) 721-6119 crmp at uvcs.uvic.ca http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/
