*** Save the date for the next CAL SIG event on Friday, February 25, 2005, in the Bay Area! ***
Where: RLG and the Computer History Museum, both located in Mountain View, CA
When: Friday, February 25, 2005, 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m.
What: Meet colleagues from these two dynamic institutions, learn about their latest projects and initiatives, enjoy a tour of their facilities, network with your MCN peers from around the state of California, and update your colleagues on the latest projects at your institution. If you don't live in the Bay Area, this is a good excuse to plan a three-day weekend to visit!
We will visit RLG in the morning, enjoy a hosted lunch at RLG
with colleagues, and then head over to the nearby Computer History Museum
in the afternoon.
RLG (http://www.rlg.org/) is an international,
not-for-profit membership organization bringing together over 150 universities,
libraries, museums and archives. Since some of you may not yet be familiar with
what RLG does, we'll have RLG staff on hand to explain how the organization
helps the cultural heritage community, and the particular impact of RLG work on
museums. Among the current initiatives which will be discussed: RLG plans to
continue providing access to the content of the AMICO Library, a resource of
over 100,000 fine art images; Cultural Materials, a resource of over 500,000
images integrating images and multimedia from a broad alliance of museums,
libraries and archives; and RLG's strategy to help institutions generate
licensing revenue from their digitized collections through a new website called
Trove.net (TM).
After lunch at RLG, we will visit the Computer History Museum, also
located in Mountain View. Established in 1996, the Computer History Museum
(http://www.computerhistory.org
) preserves and presents for posterity the artifacts and stories of the
information age. It is the world's largest
and most significant history
museum for preserving and presenting the computing revolution and its impact on
the human experience. The
collection totals over 20,000 items comprising
artifacts of all sizes, photographs, moving images, archival material, ephemera,
and software. Staff from the Computer History Museum will tell us about some of
their ongoing projects, such as scanning parts of the document collection and
restoring computers, and give us a tour of their collections in the Visible
Storage exhibition and the behind-the-scenes storage areas.
You must be a
current MCN member or be employed by a current institutional member to attend.
This CAL SIG event is being generously sponsored by RLG.
If you have questions or need more information, please contact Dana Mitroff at [email protected].
......................................
Dana Mitroff
MCN Board Member and Senior Web Manager
San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art
151 Third Street
San Francisco, CA
94103-3159
[email protected]
www.sfmoma.org
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