[MCN-L] Wilson Fellowship for MA Photographic History and Practice, De Montfort University

[Stephen Brown]

Apologies for cross posting:

Wilson Fellowship for MA Photographic History and Practice, De Montfort 
University

 

The Wilson Fellowship in Photographic History. Call for Applications.

De Montfort University is pleased to announce the availability of one

Wilson Fellowship for its new MA in Photographic History and Practice.

The Fellowship offers ?5,000 toward the defrayal of tuition and other

costs related to the MA, and is open to all students UK, EU and

International. To apply for the Wilson Fellowship, please submit a piece

of recent writing on photographic history no longer than 10,000 words,

in English, to the Admissions Committee. For applications to the MA,

please contact Student Recruitment at the Faculty of Art and Design at

artanddesign at dmu.ac.uk or apply online at ukpass.ac.uk. For questions

about the MA programme or the Wilson Fellowship please contact Programme

Leader, Dr Kelley Wilder at kwilder at dmu.ac.uk. 

 

The MA in Photographic History and Practice is the first course of its

kind in the UK. It lays the foundations for understanding the scope of

photographic history and provides the tools to carry out the independent

research in this larger context, working in particular from primary

source material. In addition to our collaboration with the Wilson Centre

for Photography Studies in London, we will work with the collections of

the National Media Museum, Bradford, the Central Library, Birmingham,

the British Library and private collections throughout Britain. Students

handle photographic material, learn analogue photographic processes,

write history from objects in collections, compare historical

photographic movements, and debate the canon of photographic history.

They also learn about digital preservation and access issues through

practical design projects involving Website and database design.

Research Methods are a core component, providing students with essential

handling, writing, digitizing and presentation skills needed for MA and

Research level work. Further modules will encourage independent thinking

in theory and in history writing, introduce students to methodologies

commonly encountered in photographic history, and set the students on a

course for finding their own MA dissertation topic. Students receive

expert advice on the thesis topic of their choosing, which is written in

the summer months and submitted in September, one year after the course

begins, in the case of full time study, or two years in the case of

part-time. For further details on the course and application process,

please download a course brochure from

http://kmd.dmu.ac.uk/kmd_photohistory_page/HOPP.pdf. 

 

 

Professor Stephen Brown

Director, Knowledge Media Design

http://kmd.dmu.ac.uk http://kmd.dmu.ac.uk 

tel: 0116 257 7173

mob: 07989 948230

 

[MCN-L] Image Licensing

[Waibel,Guenter]

I really enjoyed the recent exchange about image licensing, and as I re-read 
earlier entries of that rich thread, I started copying  pasting some of the 
things most interesting to me into a text file. Before I knew it, I had a 
little document full of nuggets which I thought very nicely lay out the state 
of the discussion around image licensing in the museum community. I've written 
a blog posting about all of this at http://hangingtogether.org/?p=692, in case 
you'd like to revisit.

 

Cheers,

G?nter

 

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G?nter Waibel
Program Officer, OCLC Research

 

777 Mariners Island Blvd. Suite 550
San Mateo CA 94404
voice: +1-650-287-2144

 

G?nter blogs at ... http://www.hangingtogether.org 
http://www.hangingtogether.org 

 

[MCN-L] A good 3rd party credit card transaction handler?

[Ari Davidow]

At my organization we use Acceptiva for all of our online credit card
transactions. I like working with them. They actively try to make
things work better for us, they're responsive, and reasonably priced.
(They have limitations in terms of form layout, but nothing we can't
live with at our size/needs.)

I've been talking with some other folks who have been suggesting
Google's service (Google check-out?) for annual memberships in another
organization. I'd like to steer clear of Google because they require
that everyone be a registered user, logged in, before they can pay.
This is a pain for people who might give us money once or twice a
year--or in the case of say, the organization in question, renew
membership once and, if lucky, attend an event or two during the year.

What is other folks' experience? If you're not hosting it all yourself
(and I hope nobody who isn't forced to by an idiot board and isn't a
bank is doing so), what works best for you? What flexibility in
handling transactions do you get that makes one service work better
for you than another?

ari

[MCN-L] Website surveys - the good, the bad, the ugly

[Ari Davidow]

I apologize for the cross-posting.

We really want to get a sense of how well people feel our website
serves them. (Don't get me started on what serves them well means.)
I'd like to find someone, preferably based in Boston, who can help us
put together a good survey so that we can better understand site
visitor satisfaction, and perhaps, understand a bit better what draws
the people currently visiting our site there. We don't need
technology--we can use Survey Monkey, or put together something in our
CMS--but I want someone who understands statistics and what questions
to ask to best solicit useful information for a non-profit online
site.

Any suggestions? War stories?

Many thanks,
Ari