Dear Cal SIG members,

Our CAL SIG meeting is scheduled for August 22, at the Autry Museum of
Western Heritage in Los Angeles.  The agenda is below and attached.  I
hope you can join us!  Please let me know.

Rebecca Lachter
[email protected]
Electronic Cataloging Initiative
Autry Museum of Western Heritage
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, California  90027
(323) 667-2000 x201

California Special Interest Group (CAL SIG) Meeting
Museum Computer Network

Friday, August 22, 2003

Autry Museum of Western Heritage
4700 Western Heritage Way
Los Angeles, CA  90027
Contact: Rebecca Lachter, phone: 323-667-2000 x201       
e-mail: [email protected] 
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CALIFORNIA COLLABORATIONS 2003

The Museum Computer Network's California SIG invites you to a day of
discussion and networking with local Southern California colleagues.  We
will discuss some of the pioneering collaborative projects we're
involved in--an update for some of us and hopefully an inspiration for
others.  

We urge our local Visual Resources Association friends to join us.

9:30 am Arrival/Coffee/Welcome  
               Rebecca Lachter, Autry Museum
10:00 am        MCN business meeting    
                 Marla Misunas, SIG Chair
11:00 am        Usability studies and the web
                Tim Hart and Vicki Porter, J.Paul Getty Trust
                
12:00 pm        Lunch and visiting Autry Museum galleries

2:00 pm Institutions with multiple databases:
                National Park Service contribution database     
        Phil Bedel, Museum Curator, Santa Monica Mountains National 
                Recreation Area
        Autry-Southwest merger and merging data from four databases
        Cheryl Miller and Rebecca Lachter, Autry National Center

3:00 pm Break
3:30 pm Primary Materials Databases in CA: The Online Archive
of
                 California and RLG Cultural Materials
                 Guenter Waibel, Program Officer, Research Libraries
Group
                  Museums Online Archive of California
                 Steven Thomas, Curator of Collections, UCR/California
Museum  
                  of Photography
4:30 pm Adjourn


There is no charge for the day, and lunch is on your own.  Lunch is
available in the Museum café.  Or, you may wish to venture out of the
Park to one of many close by restaurants.


Directions
Located in Los Angeles' Griffith Park at the junction of the Golden
State (5) and Ventura (134) freeways, the Autry is adjacent to the Los
Angeles Zoo. Look for exit signs near the junction of the Golden State
(5) and Ventura (134) freeways. On surface streets, it can be reached
 from Forest Lawn Dr., Victory Blvd., or Los Feliz Blvd. Accessible using
MTA bus route 96.  (http://www.autry-museum.org/visit/)

The museum is open 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on Fridays.
Parking is free and plentiful.

PLEASE RSVP BY AUGUST 18 to Rebecca Lachter
Phone: 323.667.2000 x201
Email: [email protected]

We hope to see you at the Autry!



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