I wanted to put a call out there to see if someone would be interested in forming a panel on Museum Registration systems to present at the MCN conference? Here at HealthSpace we encountered many challenges when it came to finding a new Registration Database. We evaluated several products and eventually decided to custom build our own, and what a challenge that was. I’m proud to say that it was a rather successful project, but I feel like I have learned SO much from the process and would love to share this information. Also, whenever I talk to cultural institutions, they all seem to be interested in how other institutions are handling this, so it seems like it would be a rather popular topic.
Our Registration Database handles the following:
All Education Programming (In-House, Outreach, Distance Learning)
All Rentals
All Resource Allocation
All Contact Information
All Financial information (relating to Education & Rentals)
We are also building an online registration system that connects directly to the database...
I could easily talk about the benefits and challenges with custom building your own system. I would like to find others who have maybe done the same, or who have purchased systems and we can give a complete snapshot of dealing with these types of systems.
I would also be happy to server as the Chairperson for this Panel.
Please let me know if anyone is interested.
Roger
Roger Zender
Director, Information & Learning Technology
[email protected]
216-231-6828
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HealthSpace Cleveland
http://www.healthspacecleveland.org
http://www.healthdl.org
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Please forward to any interested colleagues
MCN's 33rd Annual Conference
Museum Computer Network Boston, 2005
Call for Proposals
DIGITS FUGIT!
Preserving Knowledge into the Future
Location: Boston, Massachusetts
Meeting Dates: November 3 - 5, 2005
Proposal Deadline: February 11, 2005
As an organization, MCN has always championed back-office, mission-critical, "heavy lifting" aspects of museum technologies. We provided advocacy and professional development programs to help our membership accomplish basic networking and database efforts that transformed the record keeping part of museum work. For years now, we have turned our attention to refining cataloguing standards, image digitizing technologies, developing smarter systems for inter-operability, sustainability, and electronic publication.
We've all spent a great deal of time and effort organizing vast quantities of information in a variety of digital formats. The time has come to focus on preserving the valuable results of that tremendous effort. In response, the theme for MCN's 2005 conference will be Digits Fugit! Preserving Knowledge into the Future.
What makes MCN conferences great is the participation of people in the field tackling these issues on a daily basis. Propose to chair a panel, deliver a paper, teach a workshop or conduct a roundtable. The Program Committee is seeking presentations based on current and planned activities or research that focus on one of the following broad areas of interest:
Collaboration & Data Aggregation Multimedia & Streaming Technologies
Collection Information Management Point of Sale & eCommerce
Digital Rights Management Preservation Metadata Standards
Electronic Publication Preservation Planning
Imaging Technologies Preservation Policy Development
Intellectual Property Rights Research & Evaluation
Management Issues Standards & Interoperability
Membership & Fund Raising Storage Technologies
Each session must have a chairperson responsible for finding other speakers and coordinating logistics. All chairs must be affiliated with an institutional member or be an MCN individual member. Topics for the sessions should fall into at least one of the categories listed. All proposals for sessions and/or workshops must be submitted on Call for Proposals form. To obtain additional copies or get more specific information, visit the MCN web site, www.mcn.edu <http://www.mcn.edu> or contact Susan Rawlyk at the MCN office by email [email protected] or phone (403) 288-9394.
Come to Boston, be a part of MCN's 33rd Annual Conference, at the world famous Omni Parker House, in the heart of the old town.
Talk with your colleagues about your organizations, your communities, your ideas, your hopes and your digital preservation fears - then send your ideas and proposals for the 2005 Conference to the Program Committee by February 11, 2005.
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