The Museum Computer Network's California
Special Interest Group (MCN CAL
SIG) announces its next meeting on Thursday, June 24th in
San Francisco.
PROGRAM AND VENUE CHANGE
FOR CAL SIG MEETING --JUNE
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Due to
circumstances beyond our control, the MCN CAL SIG meeting’s morning
session will not be held at the Asian Art Museum. Instead,
our morning program will change and we’ll
be meeting at the newly opened (May 1st) California
Academy of Sciences, at 875 Howard Street.
****Thanks to Carrie Burroughs, Image Management
Librarian, for graciously hosting our last minute switch and finding new
speakers. I look forward to a great
meeting and seeing all of you! ****
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To attend, please
send rsvp to: mmisu...@sfmoma.org by JUNE 15th.
There is no charge for the
program, however attendees MUST be
current MCN members, current
VRA members, or work for an institutional member of MCN or VRA. If you are unsure of
your MCN membership
status, please email i...@mcn.edu
prior to the meeting. To renew now, go to http://www.mcn.edu/membership/index.htm.
Where:
Meet at the California Academy of Sciences, 875 Howard Street, between
Fourth and Fifth Streets. Come to the main entrance and check in at the
guard’s station. The guards will have your name, and
will direct you to the meeting room.
When and What:
9:00 am Call to order,
announcements, introductions/progress updates or current issues from members. Coffee will be generously provided by the California Academy of Sciences.
10:30 am Tour of the Naturalist Center with Diane Sands,
Naturalist Center Coordinator.
11:00 am Stan Blum, Research
Information Manager, Executive Committee Chair, Taxonomic Databases Working
Group; and GBIF Subcommittee Chair, Data Access and Database Interoperability; will discuss Integrating Biodiversity Information on a Global Scale.
11:30 am Carrie Burroughs,
Image Management Librarian, will discuss the Academy’s image management
systems, especially with regard to internal and public clients.
12:00 pm Lunch on your own.
You may stay at the Academy and eat at the Grow Caf, or you may go ahead
to SFMOMA and eat at Caf Museo, or in the neighborhood between the two
institutions. Or bring your lunch and
eat in Yerba Buena Gardens. Restaurant lists will be provided.
Walk along Howard past the Moscone Center to Third Street, turn left and proceed to
SFMOMA. Turn right at Minna (just beyond the Museum) and walk to the parking
area outside the Visitor/Staff entrance.
1:00 pm Meet
outside SFMOMA's staff entrance (on Minna between New Montgomery &
Third Street).
You'll be escorted to the
SFMOMA office annex for our afternoon meeting with featured speaker, Robert Futernick,
Associate
Director of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Some of you may remember Bob's talk several years ago when he gave us a tour of
their interim collections facility. This time he'll be bringing us up to
date on the new museum building in
Golden Gate Park, and their latest technology plans.
2:30 pm Cookie
break
3:00 pm Cross
Minna to the main museum building and go up to SFMOMA’s Koret Visitor Education
Center for a tour of the facility and their technology.
Nora
Nirk, KVEC Site Supervisor, will give us an overview. Peter Samis,
Associate Curator of Education and Program Manager, Interactive Educational
Technologies; will take over, discussing IET’s latest
multi-media features for sfmoma.org, and introduce Pachyderm, the web authoring
tool created by SFMOMA, now expanding through the Pachyderm Consortium.Ê How many elephants can fit into the
SFMOMA?
5:00 pm Meeting adjourns, but you
may visit the galleries until 9 pm, eat dinner in the caf, or stay in the KVEC
(open until 8:30 pm). Bring your laptop to the caf if you wish to check
your email via wireless connection.
Marla Misunas
Collections Information Manager
Collections Information and Access
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
(415) 357- 4186 (voice)
(415) 947-1186 (fax)
www.sfmoma.org <http://www.sfmoma.org>
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Board Member, Museum Computer Network
Conference Co-Chair, Minneapolis 2004
www.mcn.edu
Trudy Levy
Consultant for Digital Imaging Projects
Image Integration
415 750 1274
http://www.DIG-Mar.com
Membership Chair,
Visual Resources Association
http://vraweb.org
Images are information - Manage them
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