Hello, fellow MCN list subscribers:
The Museum Computer Network is pleased to announce the formation of
the MCN Small Museum SIG (Special Interest Group), which will hold
its inaugural meeting at MCN's November 2004 conference in
Minneapolis. The SIG's precise aims and activities will emerge from
open-ended and participatory discussion at that meeting; its general
mission is as follows:
Statement of Purpose
The MCN Small Museum SIG is a forum for discussing technology issues
faced by people working in small- and medium-sized museums,
galleries, and archives. Such institutions often have fewer
resources, and less in-house expertise, than do many larger ones.
Along with encouraging members to share information with one another,
the Small Museum SIG organizes and proposes at least one topical
panel for each annual MCN conference. Any MCN member is welcome to
join the SIG; if you feel that your institution is a small one in
terms of its staff, budget, or technology resources, or even if you
don't work in such a setting but want to help by sharing information
about technology issues in these contexts (solutions to common
problems, news of emerging tools or practices, etc.), this is a SIG
for you.
We hope that all MCN members interested in these issues will attend
the SIG's first meeting this November, when we all can help to shape
the SIG from its inception. For more information, please contact the
new Small Museum SIG Chair, David Farrell of the Peel Heritage
Complex in Ontario, Canada, at <david.farr...@peelregion.ca>.
General information about MCN's 2004 conference is on the web at
http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2004/delegate/mcn2004-d1a.htm
all best regards,
Rob Lancefield (MCN Board, SIG Liaison)
David Farrell (MCN Small Museum SIG Chair)
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Rob Lancefield rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu
Registrar of Collections / Manager of Museum Information Services
Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University www.wesleyan.edu/dac
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USA tel. 860.685.2965
Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu
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