hello MCN community,
In my role as MCN Board SIG Liaison, I'm writing to the
membership with an update on the status and recent changes to the MCN
SIGs. To summarize, the MCN Board of Directors recently voted in
favor of the following actions:
1. Dissolve some SIGs. After much discussion on the Board, among
SIG Chairs, SIG members, and this general membership, the Board
agreed that it would be best to retire certain SIGs which have
retiring chairs, no new chairs, long-term low activity, outdated,
etc., and concentrate on existing and new ones. Those dissolved SIGs
are:
Archaeology and Anthropology
Libraries and Resource Centers
Small Museums
The Internet
Education
South/Central America
Scandinavia
Italy
Libraries and Resource Centers
Small Museums
The Internet
Education
South/Central America
Scandinavia
Italy
This means that our remaining SIGs are as follows (with SIG
Chair emails):
Intellectual Property - Diane M. Zorich, [email protected]
Controlled Vocabulary - Layna White , [email protected]
Digital Imaging - Guenter Waibel, [email protected]
IT SIG - Christine Bostick , [email protected]
Standards - Rob Lancefield, [email protected]
California - Marla Misunas, [email protected]
Japan - Mitsuhiro Takemura
UK-Ireland - Jim Devine,
[email protected]
2. Dissolve individual SIG email lists and have them all use
MCN-L. People posting SIG-specific messages are asked to observe the
etiquette of including a reference in the Subject line; for instance:
'Subject: Digital Imaging SIG - dpi'. Everyone felt that this would
encourage broader exposure and cross-pollination among SIG and
general members. MCN management has not yet completed moving all the
SIG email list addresses to MCN-L, but hopes to have that done by the
MCN conference.
3. Allow MCN Chairs direct FTP access to change/update their SIG
webpage on the MCN website. This should help to make SIG webpages
more dynamic community resources and a tool for SIG Chairs. MCN
management has not set up the FTP accounts, but again, hopes to by
the conference.
4. Combine 'international chapter SIGs' with regular SIGs so we
have just one category; at least for now.
The MCN Board has recently been discussion, but has yet taken no
action on the following additional action items related to SIGs.
Anyone within the sound of my voice who has any ideas or comments,
please post them!
a. I know that some SIGs, of their own initiative, working along
with Leslie, have begun sending semi-regular reports on SIG topics to
eSpectra. We should formalize this and have a regular
"column" in eSpectra devoted to news from SIG areas.
b. We thought that perhaps there should be a regular space
carved out of every conference for SIG-sponsored and focussed
sessions. This could take the form of a time-block, a conference
thread, or some other form. This would however avoid the problem of
SIG chairs coming up with sessions which do not meet the current
theme, and might motivate SIG chairs to fill an empty slot.
c. We thought it would be a grand idea for MCN to have a booth
in the exhibit hall (do we already)? The specific feature we would
add is that SIG materials would be available, and SIG chairs and
members would be scheduled to staff the booth ("meet the
SIGs") to promote their SIGs.
d. Create a board position of: SIG Liaison. We felt we needed to
discuss a new board position at our actual Board meeting.
Thanks!
--
Richard Rinehart
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Digital Media Director, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
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Instructor, Department of Art Practice
art.berkeley.edu
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University of California, Berkeley
---Richard Rinehart
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Digital Media Director, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
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Instructor, Department of Art Practice
art.berkeley.edu
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University of California, Berkeley
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