I'm (in)famous for my rants about our purchase order pads, which were printed
up in zillions in the mid-20th century and require carbon paper (which is damn
hard to find these days). I huffed and I puffed and swore I wouldn't shut up
until I could do purchase orders online.
Well, I won. And
Below, two first-hand, anonymous reports:
The summary below covers most of the topics discussed (also talked about why
commercial users are important distributors of content, and -- never long
enough -- about why there's no "piggybacking" allowed in proposed US
A quick email to draw your attention to an online survey into the use,
challenges + future of mobile interpretation in museums.? See
http://tr.im/ALUg
'Thank you' to all those that have taken the survey already. Since
its launch a couple of weeks ago we've had over 100 responses from
museums arou
At MCN in Portland there is a great workshop called " Digital Asset Management
Forum for Heritage and Culture"
(http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/index.asp?subkey=2519) that you should take a
look at. Extensis is organizing that workshop.
Rich
Rich Cherry
Director
Balboa Park Online Collaborati
For those who are really caught up in the on-going saga known as the Google
Books Settlement (by far the best reality show now running) and the issues of
book digitization for our culture in general, here are the links to Peter
Hirtle's extensive summaries of the D for Digitize conference at NY
Hello,
Yes We use it extensively (but not a museum)
Dan
Daniel A. DuBravec
Group Manager - Technology
Verizon
1320 N. Court House Rd., 8th Fl.
Arlington, VA 22201
703 974-0840
571-289-5675 cell
? Please consider the environment
before printing this e-mail
-Original Message
Hi Deb,
Not us, but you might check in with the folks at Colonial Williamsburg.
Patty Silence talked about their electronic records program as a
greening practice at the IMLS Connecting to Collections Forum in
Buffalo, NY this summer. There's a webcast of the forum
http://www.tvworldwide.com/eve
Here at the Frick after much discussion, we finally were able to get the
PR office to post press clippings packets to the intranet instead of
photocopying many thick packets to distribute to staff.
Floyd Sweeting
Head, Information Technology and New Media
-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-b
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has written to the Court seeking a fair
hearing process
for the next Google Books settlement proposal .
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/10/eff-urges-court-ensure-fairness-google-book-search
http://www.eff.org/files/Chin%20Timing%20Letter%20102209.pdf
"The
We had a conversation this morning with the director about greening the museum
and one of the things that came up was going paperless (where it makes sense --
I'm use to be the archivist, after all). He asked for some examples of museums
who were doing it and doing it well.
Anybody out there w
Colleagues,
If you are using Extensis Portfolio for managing your digital photos,
and are willing to identify yourself, I'd like to be in touch with you.
Thanks in advance.
Peter Johnson
Project Manager for Records, Documents & Images
Skirball Cultural Center
2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles,
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