There are still a few spots available, so RSVP now to join us for the next MCN California Special Interest Group meeting on Friday, February 25, 2005, in Mountain View, CA!
You must RSVP to attend this event, as space is limited to 25 attendees and we will be serving lunch. The RSVP deadline is Friday, February 18, 2005. To reserve your spot, email Dana Mitroff at dmitr...@sfmoma.org. In your RSVP, please indicate your lunch preference (vegetarian/non-vegetarian) and any other dietary restrictions. Because we will be ordering catered lunches in advance, kindly RSVP only if you are definitely attending. **WHEN: Friday, February 25, 2005, 10:00 a.m.- 5:00 p.m. **WHERE RLG and the Computer History Museum, both located in Mountain View, CA Meet at RLG at 10 a.m. Directions: http://www.rlg.org/en/page.php?Page_ID=6881, **WHAT: Meet colleagues from these two dynamic institutions, learn about their latest projects and initiatives, enjoy a tour of their facilities, network with your MCN peers from around the state of California, and update your colleagues on the latest projects at your institution. If you don't live in the Bay Area, this is a good excuse to plan a three-day weekend to visit! We will visit RLG in the morning, enjoy a hosted lunch at RLG with colleagues, and then head over to the nearby Computer History Museum in the afternoon. RLG (http://www.rlg.org/) is an international, not-for-profit membership organization bringing together over 150 universities, libraries, museums and archives. Since some of you may not yet be familiar with what RLG does, we'll have RLG staff on hand to explain how the organization helps the cultural heritage community, and the particular impact of RLG work on museums. Among the current initiatives which will be discussed: RLG plans to continue providing access to the content of the AMICO Library, a resource of over 100,000 fine art images; Cultural Materials, a resource of over 500,000 images integrating images and multimedia from a broad alliance of museums, libraries and archives; and RLG's strategy to help institutions generate licensing revenue from their digitized collections through a new website called Trove.net (TM). After lunch at RLG, we will visit the Computer History Museum, also located in Mountain View. Established in 1996, the Computer History Museum ( http://www.computerhistory.org ) preserves and presents for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age. It is the world's largest and most significant history museum for preserving and presenting the computing revolution and its impact on the human experience. The collection totals over 20,000 items comprising artifacts of all sizes, photographs, moving images, archival material, ephemera, and software. Staff from the Computer History Museum will tell us about some of their ongoing projects, such as scanning parts of the document collection and restoring computers, and give us a tour of their collections in the Visible Storage exhibition and the behind-the-scenes storage areas. You must be a current MCN member or be employed by a current institutional member to attend. This CAL SIG event is being generously sponsored by RLG. If you have questions or need more information, please contact Dana Mitroff at dmitr...@sfmoma.org. ...................................... Dana Mitroff MCN Board Member _____________________ Senior Web Manager San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 151 Third Street San Francisco, CA 94103-3159 dmitr...@sfmoma.org www.sfmoma.org The information contained in this electronic mail message (including any attachments) is confidential information that may be covered by the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 USC Sections 2510-2521, intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above, and may be privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify me and delete the original message. Thank you --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: rlancefi...@mail.wesleyan.edu To unsubscribe send a blank email to leave-mcn_mcn-l-12800...@listserver.americaneagle.com
