Hello current CAL SIG members and new faces!
The California SIG of MCN invites you to our SIG meeting at the 32nd
annual MCN meeting on Thursday, November 11, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm, just before the conference reception at the Mill City Museum.
We’ll meet at the conference Registration Desk and go to our meeting
location from there.
The CAL SIG is open to any MCN member currently living in California, or past
residents, or folks who wish they lived there. The mission of the CAL SIG
is to serve as a regional forum to
promote communication about the usage of digital technologies in the California cultural heritage community.
In the relentless pursuit of our mission, we hold events annually in either
Northern or Southern
California to
share ideas, triumphs, and challenges; and to visit one another’s
facilities. CAL SIG has been holding meetings since 1998 in various
locations in the San
Francisco and
Los Angeles areas.
On our agenda this time will be
reviewing this year’s contributions to the organization, patting
ourselves on the back, and planning for next year. We’re also
planning an elaborate installation ceremony for our new SIG Co-Chairs, Amy Noel
(Getty) and Dana Mitroff (SFMOMA), as I’ll be stepping down from the dais
this year. In the event that Dana is elected to the Board of Directors
of MCN, we’ll also be looking for a new Co-Chair, so if you are interested in getting more involved with
MCN, this is a great opportunity, and I urge you to come to the meeting to
learn more!
Come revel in the excitement and suspense! YOU are
invited to join us at our meeting on November 11.
Don’t miss this session, sponsored
by CAL SIG:
Friday, 10:30-12:00 – Carver Room
Going Beyond Google: Constructing Innovative
Access to Collections on the Web
Session Chair: Diana Folsom, LACMA
Panelists:
Brad Johnson, Second Story Interactive
Tim Hart, Senior Web Analyst, J. Paul Getty Museum
David Schaller, EduWeb adventures
Dana Mitroff, Senior Web Manager, SFMOMA
Award-winning panelists give visual tours through their development processes
as they explore new interfaces created for online collections. Going beyond
traditional inquiry-retrieval models, these investigative interfaces facilitate
unsolicited discovery and meaningful browsing, to serve the spectrum of
audiences from novice to expert. Real world examples will illustrate these
approaches, with behind-the-scenes assessments of relative costs and efforts
for different features, contrasted with audience feedback and focus groups,
which show the fallout of these techniques.
Marla Misunas
Collections Information Manager
Collections Information and Access
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(415) 357- 4186 (voice)
Check out SFMOMA
Collections Online at www.sfmoma.org
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Board Member, Museum Computer Network
Conference Co-Chair, Minneapolis 2004
Registration now open at: www.mcn.edu
