[MCN-L] Collections Management Survey Invitation

[Nik Honeysett]

Dear MCNers,

Sending out a second call to complete our collections management survey which 
can be found here: http://bit.ly/cms-survey  please 
take the survey or forward to a colleague who will.

To refresh, the study is on behalf of LYRASIS and funded by the Andrew W. 
Mellon Foundation, to investigate the technology landscape and evolving tactics 
and strategy around collections management in museums.

We’re uncovering some very interesting stuff, and I’ll share a visualization of 
a sample set of digitization information in a variety of museums.

https://www.bpoc.org/assets/img/projects/Digitization.png 


The colors in each add up to 100% and represent the following:

No analogue or digital representation
Analogue only
Digitized low-res only
Digitized hi-res

Can you guess which category the graph is sorted by?

Please take the survey to maximize our dataset - http://bit.ly/cms-survey 

-nik



Nik Honeysett | Chief Executive Officer | BPOC | www.bpoc.org


M (805) 402-3326  P (619) 331-1974  E nhoneys...@bpoc.org 

1549 El Prado, Suite 8, San Diego, CA 92101

A non-profit technology collaboration connecting audiences to art, culture & 
science.








> On Dec 13, 2017, at 4:32 PM, Nik Honeysett  wrote:
> 
> Dear MCNers,
> 
> A few weeks ago I posted about BPOC’s partnership with Ithaka S+R on a 
> collections management study on behalf of LYRASIS and funded by the Andrew W. 
> Mellon Foundation, to investigate the technology landscape and evolving 
> tactics and strategy around collections management in museums. Here’s the 
> press release: http://bit.ly/lyrs-cms . Many thanks 
> to those of you who responded off-list, it was very helpful.
> 
> The study will be a combination of survey and interviews and the survey part 
> is now ready (http://bit.ly/cms-survey ). I very 
> much hope you will take time to participate. This is a great opportunity for 
> all of us involved, directly or indirectly, with collections management to 
> share how we are using those systems and the challenges and opportunities we 
> face. Please contribute your voice and opinions. We will be reporting out to 
> the community starting in Spring of 2018 and already have some confirmed 
> conference sessions to discuss our findings, which we envision will be 
> relevant and valuable to the collections management communities, museum 
> leadership and the vendors who support us. 
> 
> Collections management is a broad topic and fundamental to our missions and 
> so the survey is necessarily detailed. SurveyGizmo tells me it should take 19 
> minutes to complete, it also grades it low on Fatigue and high on 
> Accessibility, with all but the last question requiring that you write 
> something rather than select an option or grade a statement. It can be 
> anonymous if that helps with your candor, but I’m hoping you’ll let us know 
> who you are.
> 
> Here’s the link: http://bit.ly/cms-survey  please 
> take the survey or forward to a colleague who will.
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> -nik
> 
> 
> 
> Nik Honeysett | Chief Executive Officer | BPOC | www.bpoc.org 
> 
> M (805) 402-3326  P (619) 331-1974  E nhoneys...@bpoc.org 
> 
> 1549 El Prado, Suite 8, San Diego, CA 92101
> 
> A technology collaboration that connects audiences to art, culture and 
> science.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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[MCN-L] SEI 2018: Registration now open!

[Nicole Gabrielle Finzer]

It’s here! Registration is now open for SEI 2018:  
http://seiworkshop.org/registration/

In its 15th year as a joint program between the  Art Libraries Society of North 
America
 (ARLIS/NA) and the Visual Resources Association 
Foundation
 (VRAF). Places traditionally have filled up quickly for this intensive 
workshop designed to serve a wide range of professionals eager to learn about 
new technologies and update job skills. Secure your spot today!

SEI 2018 will be held June 5-8, 2018, at the University of New Mexico, 
Albuquerque.
 SEI offers a 
curriculum
 packed with hands-on and lecture modules relating to digital collections 
management presented by expert instructors. Past graduates have praised the 
knowledge and preparedness of the instructors. One participant noted, ”I liked 
that they were teaching through experience rather than just texts. It was 
refreshing to have some practical and experience based teaching. When learning 
difficult concepts like copyright it was great to have experts using things 
which were relatable to my work and use.”

Please feel free to contact the SEI co-chairs with any questions:
Nicole Finzer (n-fin...@northwestern.edu)
Lesley Chapman (lchap...@colgate.edu)

See you in Albuquerque!

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