The California Special Interest Group of the Museum Computer Network invites you to our annual Southern California members meeting, featuring the exciting work being done at the LA County Museum of Art. Meet your colleagues and get the inside scoop about "Collections Online" - sponsored by the Getty Grant Electronic Cataloguing Initiative. Delve into the Image management issues associated with preparing 44,000 images for the web and placing 20,000 images online.
There is no charge for the day, and parking is free. Participants will need to provide their own meals & transportation; but to join us, you must pre-register. Please RSVP to Marla Misunas, CAL SIG Chair, [email protected] by June 18. Friday, June 21, 2002 L.A. County Museum of Art 5905 Wilshire Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90036 8:30 Meet in LACMA's parking structure. Staff parking lot is on Ogden - between Wilshire Blvd. and 6th Street. On the West side of the street. To get there: From the 10 freeway, take the Fairfax exit and go North, turn right on Wilshire Blvd., turn left on Ogden. parking structure is halfway down the street on the left. Tell Security you're at LACMA for a MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK meeting for free parking in the staff lot] Morning meetings will be at LACMA West, afternoon meetings will be held at LACMA East. 9:00 Introductions, kudos and other MCN business 10:00 Diana Folsom, Manager of Art and Education Systems, and Renee' Montgomery, Assistant Director of Collections, our hostesses for the day, will present the Getty Grant-funded project: Collections On-line. Visit the website at http://collectionsonline.lacma.org or go to the test site at http://mweb.lacma.org/mwebtest/ for a preview of this innovative system where pre-determined browses and make-your-own searches return information on objects and their related library holdings. 11:30 Optional short visit to nearby DoubleVision Gallery, where we can view paintings by Diana Folsom (one of our hostesses) and her partner, William Matthews (in the room behind the main gallery). (their official show just closed) See www.doublevisionarts.com 12:00 Lunch with the group or on your own 1:30 Photographic Services: Image capture tour featuring the Sinarcam camera with Volare digital back (a 3-shot digital camera) 2:00 Scanning Department tour 2:30 General discussion of image management - starting with LACMA's experience: with Carol Dyrek, Applications Systems Manager; John Stalder, Digital Archive Manager, and Peter Brenner, Manager of Photographic Services. Presenters will discuss imaging processes, LTS and Portfolio, LACMA's management systems for 70,000 records, 44,000 images, 150,000 library records and related issues of maintaining their many complex, interoperable systems. 4:00 Adieu Marla Misunas Manager, Collections Database Collections Information and Access San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 415 357 4186 voice 415 947 1186 fax http://www.sfmoma.org Board Member, Museum Computer Network http://www.mcn.edu --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
