Hi Rob et
al,
It could be that many
MCN members who are
staff at small museums may not be subscribers to this list serve so a better
gauge of support may be to hold a meeting at the conference. I will compile a
list of names and send out another message closer to the conference date. If
you or anyone else has any suggestions as to how to gather more names of
possible participants other than this list serve, please let me know. If there
appears to be some interest from a few more individuals I will definitely put
myself forward as a prospective chair for the SIG.
As for Ann’s question
as to the definition of a small or medium sized museum, art gallery or
archives, I don’t think that it needs to be rigidly defined at this point. It
is often a relative term and it may be one thing in the context of
MCN members and another
in terms of all museums which are currently operating. It may suffice that if
you think you are a small institution, then a small museum SIG would be
applicable.
David Farrell,
Collections Assistant
Peel Heritage
Complex
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton,
ON L6W 1Y1
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931
fax
www.region.peel.on.ca/heritage/index.htm
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Message-----
From: Rob
Lancefield [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: May 17, 2004 10:19 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: SIG for small
museums?
This does sound like a great idea for a
new SIG--I'd join in a minute!
David, might you be up for pulling
together a meeting in Minneapolis (coordinating logistics with Marla) and in
gathering names of interested MCN members in advance?
If there's enough interest and someone
(hint, hint) would like to step up as prospective SIG chair, I'd be delighted
to bring the proposal to the board. A chair doesn't necessarily have to be an
expert in all areas a SIG addresses; most important is a real interest in the
subjects at hand--and the motivation to spur topical discussions, foster
involvement, and catalyze a SIG-sponsored conference panel or two each year.
If this sounds interesting and anyone has further questions, please feel free
to contact me on- or off-list, as you wish.
MCN Board SIG Liaison (and staff at a
small university museum)
_________________________________________________________________
Rob
Lancefield
[email protected]
Registrar of Collections / Manager of Museum
Information Services
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan
University www.wesleyan.edu/dac
301 High
Street, Middletown CT 06459 USA tel.
860.685.2965
Board of Directors, Museum Computer
Network
www.mcn.edu
At 10:16 -0700 5/14/04, Marla
wrote:
Sounds
like a great idea, please let me know if you decide to have a meeting
(formal or informal) at the conference in Minneapolis so we can advertise it
& maybe find a location.
Marla
Misunas
Collections
Information Manager
Collections
Information and Access
San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(415)
357- 4186 (voice)
(415)
947-1186 (fax)
www.sfmoma.org
___________________________________
Board
Member, Museum Computer Network
Conference
Co-Chair, Minneapolis 2004
www.mcn.edu
-----Original Message-----
From: Farrell, David
[mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 7:08
AM
To:
[email protected]
Subject: SIG
for small museums?
Hi
all,
Firstly, are there many
subscribers to this list serve who are both MCN members and work in what may
reasonably be considered a small or medium sized museum, gallery or
archives? If so, do you think that there should be a small museum Special
Interest Group? Or at the very least an informal discussion at the MCN
conference in Minneapolis.
In the context of my own work
situation some of my own concerns centre around keeping up on trends in
terms of new technologies pertinent to museums. I'm sure that others may
have other issues which relevant to smaller institutions with limited
resources.
David Farrell, Collections
Assistant
Peel Heritage
Complex
9 Wellington Street
East
Brampton, ON L6W 1Y1
Canada
(905) 791-4055 ext.
3628
(905) 451-4931 fax
www.region.peel.on.ca/heritage/index.htm
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