Forwarded from the SAAMUS list. -- -----Original Message----- From: Kristine Kaske [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2004 3:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Museum Section Working Group Meeting, August 4, 1pm
Please come to the 2004 SAA Museum Section Working Group. We will meet on August 4, 2004 at 1:00pm at the lovely Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum <www.gardnermuseum.org>. The discussion at this year's Working Group will be Software for Description, Access and Control of your Archival Records. Does your database do what you want it to do? What could it do better? What are other Museum Archives using? We will be meeting in the Gardner Museum's Multi-Purpose Room. The Museum is providing us with a computer and internet connection. If you would like to bring a CD with examples of records from your database, please do. The computer will have the standard Microsoft Office package. Not only is the Gardner Museum staff serving as our hosts, but they have offered to give us a tour of their museum following our Working Group. I have had the pleasure of visiting the Gardner Museum in the past, it is wonderful. Please RSVP to me by July 27th. We need to provide names to the museum for security purposes. Directions to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum can be found on their website <www.gardnermuseum.org> under the information section. If you have any questions about the Working Group or the Reception at the Olmsted Historic Site (see previously sent invitation below) please let me know. There will be Museum Section members traveling from the Working Group to the Reception. Please join us for both events. I look forward to seeing you all in Boston, Kristine Kristine L. Kaske Photo Archivist National Air and Space Museum, Room 3148, MRC 322 Smithsonian Institution PO Box 37012 Washington, DC 20013-7012 tel: 202-633-2330 fax: 202-786-2835 email: [email protected] **************************************************************************** ******************************* Please join us at a pre-conference Architectural Records Roundtable / Museum Archives Section joint reception! The Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site is pleased to host a casual afternoon reception on Wednesday, August 4th, 4:00-5:30, allowing these two groups an opportunity to network, see the public display area of the Olmsted firm's office ("Fairsted") and walk around the cozy, intimate grounds. Introductory remarks by the chairs of the section and the roundtable will be followed by brief presentations by Olmsted NHS interpretive and curatorial/archival staff. Light refreshments will be served; $5 donation requested at the door. RSVPs are required and can be sent to the incoming Museum Archives Section chair at [email protected] (Max capacity: 50 people, Architectural Records Roundtable and Museum Archives Section members to be given priority). The Olmsted NHS is located in Brookline, MA, about a ten-minute walk from the Brookline Hills stop on Boston's subway system ("D" Green Line; see http://www.nps.gov/frla/pphtml/planyourvisit.html for more travel information) or is a short cab ride from Boston's downtown area. Feel free to contact any of the chairs with questions: Ardys Kozbial, Chair, Architectural Records Roundtable Harvard Design School, Frances Loeb Library 617/495-5674 [email protected] Beth J Dodd, Vice-Chair, Architectural Records Roundtable University of Texas, Austin, The General libraries, Alexander Architectural Archives 512/495-4504 [email protected] Kristine L. Kaske, Incoming Chair, Museum Archives Section Smithsonian Institution, National Air and Space Museum, 202/633-2330 [email protected] Anthony Reed, Outgoing Chair, Museum Archives Section National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site 617/566-1689 [email protected] More information on Olmsted and his legacy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost parkmaker. Olmsted moved his home to suburban Boston in 1883 and established at "Fairsted" the world's first full-scale professional office for the practice of landscape design. Over the course of the next century, his sons and successors expanded and perpetuated Olmsted's design ideals, philosophy, and influence. Visitors may tour the recently restored "Fairsted" historic landscape and a century-old design office that remains virtually unchanged from the days when the Olmsted firm's activity was at its height. Housed within the office complex are nearly 1,000,000 original design records detailing work on many of America's most treasured landscapes including the U. S. Capitol and White House Grounds; Great Smoky Mountains and Acadia National Parks; Yosemite Valley; New York's Central Park; and whole park systems in cities such as Seattle, Boston, and Louisville. The Olmsteds also played an influential role in the creation of the National Park Service. Writing from his desk in Brookline, F. L. Olmsted, Jr. crafted evocative words that served as the foundation for legislation establishing the Park Service in 1916: "To conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wildlife therein and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
