Dear MCN Members and Friends:
We need your help! The call for proposals for MCN 2007 in Chicago opens in two weeks, on February 5, and we want to make sure that this year's conference provides you with the information and resources you need, in a conference format (session, workshop, keynote, etc.) that is most appropriate to the topic. Below are three questions. We hope that your feedback in answering them will make the session and workshop proposal submission process in February run smoother and result in a satisfying conference experience for you. 1) Based on last year's conference and evaluations conference attendees defined the following topics as important: Opportunities for New Professionals; Leadership, Sustainability, Accountability; Building Content, Building Communities; Superior Content, Superior Delivery Digital Readiness, Digital Accomplishments, Digital Accountability; Museum Information Standards; Digital Convergence: Archives, Libraries, and Museums; Copyright Issues in the New Millennium Given that the theme of this year's conference is "Building Content, Building Community: 40 Years of Museum Information and Technology," what have we forgotten? Let us know if there are other key topics we have missed. 2) What topics do you feel merit a workshop format rather than a traditional session? What are you interested in learning "how to do? " 3) Based on this year's conference theme, who do you think would be a great keynote speaker (or speakers) for MCN 2007? Thank you for taking time to respond to our questions; go ahead and reply to the list serv so we can get some conversation going. Marla Misunas Collections Information Manager Collections Information and Access San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 415-357-4186 (voice) Check out SFMOMA Collections Online www.sfmoma.org
