Hi all - In the last few months there have been posts to this list concerned
the use of iPads in museums, but mostly in the context of visitor being able to
use one made available by the museums in galleries or learning lounges, and
presumably able to walk around with them. We are considering
Hi all,
We would like to make MCN's Small Museum SIG more relevant to members and to
that end, we would like as much feedback as possible. If you work at a small
institution, and it does not matter how you define small, please take the
time to fill out this survey on what technology related
Hi Nancy,
Just as Rich says but if the question speaks to being a small museum (I'm
presuming that your museum is in Consul, Saskatchewan) I would ask that you
prefix the question line with SM SIG: for Small Museum Special Interest
Group. It was the practice in the past to prefix the
Hi Adrienne - Take a look at Assessing The Readiness of Small Heritage
Institutions for E-Culture by Guntrum Geser in DigiCULT.info 9
(http://www.digicult.info/downloads/digicult_info_9_xs.pdf ).
David
David Farrell, Collections Registrar
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East
Hi all,
The Small Museum SIG will also have a table at the MCN Unluncheon/Unmeeting on
Friday the 18th from 12:45-2:00pm at Max Lager's
(http://www.mcn.edu/sigs-unmeeting-unluncheon-all-max-lagers-restaurant ),
despite the fact that I will not be able to attend the conference in Atlanta in
Hi all - The Peel Heritage Complex in Brampton, Ontario is about to embark on a
project to produce an interactive historical map using a multi-touch table. As
planned, much of the digital content accessible on the table (historical
images, contemporary photographs of historical buildings and
Hi Christina - Some weeks ago I did send Doug Hedley a half formed idea about
small museums and DAMS, an idea for which I got no interest when I had sent it
out on the list serve prior to that. He had asked SIG chairs if they had any
ideas and I forwarded him the message I sent out earlier, but
Hi all - I am looking for readers listserv who have an interest in the issues
faced by smaller institutions, to provide me with both ideas and feedback on
how the Small Museum SIG might participate in the 2010 MCN Conference in Austin.
An issue that is becoming critical for smaller and medium
Hi All,
I would like to invite any delegates attending the MCN Conference in Washington
who either work in a small museum or gallery, or have an interest in the
problems faced by small museums trying to adopt various computer based
technologies, to attend the Small Museum SIG meeting on
Hi all.
I realize that there have been previous threads on the use of Portfolio
in museums, but I would like to know if there have been small to medium
museums (10 or fewer permanent full-time staff) that have used a version
of Portfolio or another example of DAMS software. We are currently using
Hi all - As well as talking up the Small Museum SIG at the Byte of Lunch on the
Friday of next week's MCN Conference, I would like to encourage attendees
interested in issues concerning technology in small museums to speak with me
during the conference. Specifically, I would like ideas on how
Hi Everyone:
When I posted my last message to the MCN listserve I wanted to avoid yet
another proprietary software vs. in house collections management system
debate. I only asked for recommendations of books and types of courses on
relational database design. A couple of the recent replies,
Hi Rob Everyone,
I would be willing to take part in the first of these informal
gatherings. Coming from a relatively small museum I realize that there
is not a lot of information out there for collections managers/curators
of smaller institutions to help them build there own collections
Hi All,
I find that the latest thread on this list serve has been one of the
more ones interesting of late. I would support Richard Urban's call to
broaden the scope beyond Filemaker, mostly because I've used Microsoft
Access for our collections management database application.
I am particular
Title: SIG for small museums?
Hi all,
Firstly, are there many subscribers to this list serve who are both MCN members and work in what may reasonably be considered a small or medium sized museum, gallery or archives? If so, do you think that there should be a small museum Special Interest
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Sent: Friday, May 14, 2004 7:08 AM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: SIG for small museums?
Hi all,
Firstly, are there many subscribers
to this list serve who are both MCN members and work
Title: Registration Software
Hi All,
I would like to know what kind of software, if any, is used by other small to medium sized museums for registering individuals in programmes. For the most part these are March Break and Summer art classes for children which run for a week at a time.
Title: Registration software summary
Many thanks to those of you who answered my query concerning registration software, both on and off the list serve.
The two options which seem to be out there are in house systems using generic database software (predominantly Filemaker), or using a
Title: MCN: Small Museums SIG Inaugeral Meeting
To Small Museums SIG members and other interested MCN members.
The inaugural meeting of the recently created Small Museums SIG will be held during the MCN Conference in Minneapolis on Friday, 12 November at 5:00 p.m. Please meet ahead of time
Title: SM SIG: Co-opertive techology projects involving small museums
I am currently writing a proposal for a panel session for the MCN Boston conference in November. The proposed panel session will highlight co-operative projects or consortiums aimed at assisting small museums with some
Title: SM SIG: Suggestions for Small Museum SIG page
The Small Museum SIG web page is about to go up on the MCN website and need to some suggestion of appropriate links. At the inaugural meeting of the Small Museum SIG in Minneapolis several participants commented that there were web sites
Title: SM SIG: Small Museum SIG page now available
The Small Museum SIG page is now on line at http://www.mcn.edu/resources/sigsm/index.htm. There is also a link to it on the MCN Special Interest Groups page of the Museum Computer Network site. Many thanks to Rob Lancefield for doing the
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To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: RE: SM SIG: Small Museum
SIG page now available
David, are you getting
this email message?
Richard
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Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:55
AM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: SM SIG
Hi all,
I would suggest that anyone providing Treden with an example of a
digitisation policy might want to consider asking Richard Urban to post
it on the Digital Media SIG page of the MCN site so that it could be
shared with colleagues who are going through the same thing. If these
policies are
Good Morning
Just a reminder to those who will be attending next week's MCN
Conference in Boston that the second meeting of the Small Museum SIG
will take place on the Thursday of the at 3:00. The meeting is open to
any MCN member who is either associated with a small or medium sized
museum,
If you are a member of MCN and thinking of participating in this session
at the 2006 AAM Annual Meeting, please let me know. As the chair of the
Small Museum SIG I think that it is important that MCN have some sort of
presence at a professional gathering concerning technology and small
museums. As
Hi MCN members - If you are a museum professional working at a smaller
institution, however you define it, and an interest in using technologies that
meet your needs of your museum, I invite you to become a member of MCN's Small
Museum SIG. You can sign up by filling out a google form linked on
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