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[MCN-L] Invitation to Small Museum SIG

2015-05-21 Thread Farrell, David

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 the Small 
Museum SIG page here: 
http://mcn.edu/community/special-interest-groups-sigs/small-museum-sig/

Thanks,
David Farrell
Chair, Small Museum SIG

Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA)
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9 Wellington Street East
Brampton  ON  L6W 1Y1
905-791-4055 ext. 3628
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[MCN-L] Small Museum SIG at MCN Montreal

2013-11-15 Thread Farrell, David

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 the Small Museum 
SIG can be relevant to MCN members who work in smaller organizations and 
suggestions for sessions for future MCN conferences. Earlier this year 
respondents to a Small Museum SIG suggested that the following were of most 
interest to MCN members in small museums:

- Exploiting digital technologies with limited staff resources
- Funding sources for technology in museums
- Digital Asset Management
- Mobile applications in small museums
- ePublishing
- Website re-design on a limited budget
- Open source software solutions
- Developing writing skills for media-based interpretation
- Effective use of social media
- Podcasting
- Video shooting and editing
If you have specific ideas as to how the Small Museum SIG can provide resources 
to help museum staff with any of these, please let me know. If you want to talk 
to me at the conference, please let me know off list.
I look forward to meeting some of you in Montreal,
David


Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives (PAMA)
Join us for conversations, questions and stories as we make new connections to 
the community around us.
Your Stories. Here.

David Farrell
Collections Registrar
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton  ON  L6W 1Y1
905-791-4055 ext. 3628
david.farrell@ peelregion.ca

[MCN-L] Survey: Small Museum SIG Redux

2012-08-03 Thread Farrell, David

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 issues are of the most 
concern for you.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dE1XUTBIRkFrNGxWcTF1SHpMbkVwQlE6MQ

We will use this information going forward.

David Farrell & Agnes Stauber
Co-Chairs, MCN Small Museum SIG


David Farrell, Collections Registrar
Peel Art Gallery, Museum and Archives
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
905-791-4055 x3628
david.farrell@ peelregion.ca
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage

The Peel Art Gallery, Museum + Archives are Expanding
Re-opening 2012

[MCN-L] Small Museum SIG @ MCN SIG

2011-11-10 Thread Farrell, David

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 
person. In an effort to re-animate the SIG for 2012, I hope that MCN members 
will drop by the Small Museum SIG table and share ideas for possible sessions 
at next year's conference other ways to share ideas.

David Farrell, Collections Registrar 
Peel Heritage Complex 
Brampton, ON Canada
david.farrell at peelregion.ca 
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage 
Peel Heritage Complex is Expanding 
IMAGINE | Building a Home for Art and Heritage in Peel

[MCN-L] Using iPads as stationary display

2011-07-21 Thread Farrell, David

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 using iPads as 
touch screen exhibits, mounted on a stands and using local files (galleries are 
not wifi enabled).

Peel Heritage Complex staff would like to know if other museums have done 
anything similar. From previous posts to this list I am aware of some of the 
issues surrounding public use of iPads such as limiting icons, making Settings 
inaccessible and locking it down. At this stage we would like to know how well 
using iPads as touchscreen displays works, if there are any pitfalls (not 
necessarily of a technical nature) and if anyone has produced a best practices 
document for using iPads or similar devices in exhibition galleries, rather 
than the specific software that will be needed.

Thanks in advance,
David

David Farrell, Collections Registrar
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
905-791-4055 x3628
david.farrell@ peelregion.ca
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage

Peel Heritage Complex is Expanding
Re-opening Spring 2012.
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[MCN-L] RFI - Collaborative Multitouch Table Projects

2011-02-25 Thread Farrell, David

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 landscapes, video, 
oral history recordings) will originate from other museums or heritage 
organizations in our region who will be our partners in this project. My 
question to the listserv is not concerned with the technical aspects of content 
management software or hardware, but rather with the experience of 
collaborating with other organizations on such a project when the organization 
involved are at vastly different points on the digital content learning curve.

Firstly, is our multi-touch table project unique in its collaborative nature? 
We have not been able to find another museum, art gallery or science centre 
with a multi-touch table which has incorporated digital content from other 
institutions. Is that an actual reflection of reality?

If your institution has gone this route when producing a multi-touch 
interactive project, please reply to me, either privately or to the list, 
describing any possible pitfalls. Specifically, did you produce any scaled 
versions of the exhibits using a different platform? i.e. a smaller, portable 
multi-touch screen. Did you have to assist in the digital imaging of the 
collections of other organizations? Or just provide technical advice?

Any sharing of experiences would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
David

David Farrell, Collections Registrar
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
905-791-4055 x3628
david.farrell@ peelregion.ca
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage

IMAGINE | new exhibits new space new connections

[MCN-L] Call for Proposal reminder - not too late!

2010-05-19 Thread Farrell, David

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 heard nothing 
further.

If that went nowhere ten please let me know if there are any other proposals 
that would be appropriate for being sponsored by the Small Museum SIG. I may 
also be able to assist if that is needed.

Thanks,
David
David Farrell, Collections Registrar
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
905-791-4055 x3628
david.farrell@ peelregion.ca
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage

IMAGINE | new exhibits new space new connections

Beginning Monday, March 1, 2010, the PHC will be temporarily

closed for construction & renovations.  Email and phone numbers

will remain active - please visit http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage for updates.




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Christina DePaolo
Sent: May 19, 2010 12:59 PM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: [MCN-L] Call for Proposal reminder - not too late!

Hi,
I want to remind everyone to follow the MCN 2010 conference updates on twitter 
@MCN2010. Today is the deadline for program submissions for the Austin 
Conference, October 27-30. It is not too late, please submit your proposal 
today. http://bit.ly/cMVcX3

 We look forward to hearing from you. Let me or Nancy Proctor know if you have 
any questions.

Christina DePaolo | New Media Manager
Seattle Art Museum | 1300 1st Avenue | Seattle WA 98101
christinad at seattleartmuseum.org | 
206.654.3165

Find SAM at:
http://samblog.seattleartmuseum.org
http://facebook.com/seattleartmuseum
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[MCN-L] Small Museum SIG - 2010 Conference

2010-04-01 Thread Farrell, David

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 sized museums and 
archives is acquiring a DAMS given limited resources and limited in-house IT 
expertise. Even "micro-museums" of fewer than five permanent staff member have 
now created thousands of image files of their collections and yet the focus of 
most digital asset management solution for museums have been appropriate only 
for large institutions. Beyond a SIG sponsored session, I think that any 
exploration of the situation in Austin should include demonstrations, case 
studies and even the stories of institutions that have not yet found a 
satisfactory solution. Also, the fact that many of the museum professionals 
that this would be pertinent to may not have the resources to attend the 
conference in person will be taken into account.

If anyone has any ideas as to how this might be formatted, if you would like to 
participate in whatever form it manifests itself as, or if you have another 
idea to increase the profile of the Small Museum SIG, please either e-mail me 
off the list or reply to list in the case of the larger issues surrounding DAMS 
in small museums.

Thanks,
David Farrell, Small Museum SIG Chair


David Farrell, Collections Registrar
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
905-791-4055 x3628
david.farrell@ peelregion.ca
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage

IMAGINE | new exhibits new space new connections
Beginning Monday, March 1, 2010, the PHC will be temporarily
closed for construction & renovations.  Email and phone numbers
will remain active - please visit http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage for updates.

[MCN-L] SM SIG: Small Museums SIG Meeting at 2009 MCN Conference

2009-11-06 Thread Farrell, David

Hi All - Despite the fact that I will be unable to attend the Portland 
Conference, there will be a Small Museum SIG meeting on Friday, 13 November at 
12:45. The exact location will be announced at the conference. Ari Davidow has 
kindly volunteered to run the meeting in my absence.

All conference participants who are employed at a small or medium sized 
institution are welcome to attend, as those of you in larger institutions with 
a particular interest in the technology related problems of smaller museums, 
galleries and archives. In particular we would be interested in any ideas for 
possible sessions at the 2010 conference and ways that the Small Museum SIG can 
help exchange of technology based ideas between smaller museums.

David Farrell, Small Museum SIG Chair

Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
905-791-4055 x3628
david.farrell@ peelregion.ca
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage

[MCN-L] Use of your mailing list

2009-10-22 Thread Farrell, David

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 submissions to MCN-L with 
initials of the Special Interest Groups so that the general subject of the 
question could be readily determined by just looking at the subject line. 

David

David Farrell, Collections Registrar
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1 
905-791-4055 x3628 
david.farrell@ peelregion.ca 
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage



-Original Message-
From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-boun...@mcn.edu] On Behalf Of Rich 
Cherry
Sent: October 22, 2009 12:14 AM
To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Use of your mailing list

Nancy,

Just send your question to this list and someone will answer it.

Rich


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Balboa Park Online Collaborative
A Project of the Benbough Operating Foundation
2131 Pan American Plz
San Diego, CA 92101
B: (619) 819-8331
F: (619) 819-8230
rcherry at balboaparkonline.org



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Consul Musuem
Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:00 PM
To: mcn-l at mcn.edu
Subject: [MCN-L] Use of your mailing list

Dear Sir/Madame:
If we have a question to ask, how do we go about asking it through
your website? What is the procedure to follow?

Yours truly,
Nancy-Jean Taylor
President
Consul Museum

--
Thank you for supporting Consul Museum.
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[MCN-L] Small Museum SIG Meeting at MCN 2008 in Washington

2008-11-03 Thread Farrell, David

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 Friday, November 14 
from 12:00 - 1:30. The Farragut/Lafayette meeting room is reserved for our 
meeting, but we will probably meet there and move on to a restaurant.

The Small Museum SIG has become dormant in the last couple of years and I would 
like to revive it. A provisional Agenda for the meeting will be:

*   Adding new links and case studies to the Small Museum SIG page on the 
MCN website.
*   How can the Small Museum SIG be a resource for/help smaller 
institutions?
*   Choosing a vice-chair.

Also, the Small Museum SIG sponsored session at this year's conference is 
Technologies in Small Museums: Common Problems/Innovative Solutions, 1:30, on 
Thursday.

Even if you are unable to attend the SIG meeting but have an interest in the 
issues surrounding technology and small museums I look forward to talking to 
you at MCN 2008.

David Farrell, Collections Co-ordinator
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
905-791-4055 x3628
david.farrell@ peelregion.ca
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage

[MCN-L] SM Sig: Use of Extensis Protfolio in small museums or archives

2007-10-11 Thread Farrell, David

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
an Access database for image files of historic photographs from our
archives collection, but I looking for a convenient way to organize and
make accessible all of our digital assets, including images of the
museum collection and in-house images of special events, educational
programmes, etc.

Since the person who would be charge of the DAMS would be the same staff
member in charge of the collections database, putting numbers on
objects, accessioning the museum collection and a host of other duties,
the experiences of larger institutions that can assign one person to
cataloguing just non-collection images of special events in their DAMS
are not are not entirely relevant. A simple system without too many
bells and whistles that can be mastered relatively quickly would be
ideal. Since we are part of regional government we do have an IT
department, the computers are networked and there is a server, but we
are a small and atypical department to the regional IT staff and
therefore we have to be self-sufficient when it comes to finding the
appropriate software.

So if your situation is similar to our own, please reply to the list and
let us know how your Portfolio (or other DAMS software) experience went
and if it can do what you want it to do while staff do all their duties.

Thanks,

David Farrell, Collections Co-ordinator
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1 
905-791-4055 x3628 
david.farrell at peelregion.ca  
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage

[MCN-L] SM SIG: Small Museum SIG meeting in Pasadena

2006-11-01 Thread Farrell, David

Hi all,

In my absence the Small Museum SIG meeting at the upcoming MCN
conference in Pasadena will be chaired Richard Cloutier of the Passage
Project. Richard will hold the meeting at a local restaurant which will
be announced at the conference.

I would encourage all those who either work in small museums, archives
or libraries, or who are interested in the challenges faced by staff
these institutions when adopting various technologies to either attend
the SIG Meeting or talk to Richard during the conference.

I would very much like to increase the visibility of small museums at
the 2007 conference and to make the SIG more relevant for members who
work in small institutions. Please participate by forwarding relevant
news items or links to this listserv. If you have any other ideas please
post them, talk to Richard at the Conference or e-mail me.

Thanks,

David Farrell, Chair, Small Museum SIG
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington St. East, Brampton, ON  L6W 1Y1
(905)791-4055 x3628
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage

Re: [SM SIG] Technology and small museums

2006-01-03 Thread Farrell, David

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 a museum professional in a small Canadian museum, however,
it is not practical for me to attend myself. Even if you have not
participated in the MCN Small Museum SIG in the past, I would encourage
you to participate in the session if you have experience with technology
in small museums and to show the MCN flag.

David

David Farrell, Co-ordinator, Heritage Collections
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East 
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1 
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax 
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage/

-Original Message-
From: Richard Urban [mailto:museumn...@earthlink.net] 
Sent: December 13, 2005 10:44 AM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: [SMSIG] Technology and small museums

 FYI for all the Small Museum SIG folks

-Richard

-Original Message-
From: smallmuse...@yahoogroups.com [mailto:smallmuse...@yahoogroups.com]
On
Behalf Of Janice Klein
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 1:13 PM
To: Small Museums Group (AASLH) (E-mail); Field Service List (E-mail);
Museum-L (E-mail)
Subject: [AASLH-SmallMuseums] Technology and small museums

The Small Museum Administrators Committee of AAM is co-sponsoring a
session
"Technology's No Tea Party for Small Museums" at the 2006 AAM Annual
Meeting
that is being organized by AAM's Media and Technology Committee.   Our
goal
is to provide museum technology professionals with insight into the real
issues that small museums face with technology -- everything from
telephone
answering machines to digital imaging.
We are asking for your help in setting the agenda for this moderated
discussion.  Please fill out a survey that will help us define your
needs.

Go to http://www.mediaandtechnology.org

Click on Technology Survey and tell us how your organization currently
uses
technology, how your job is affected by technology, and what it is you
really need technology to do for you each day.


If you are interested in becoming a panelist for the session itself, or
for
further questions, please contact Angela Spinazze, a...@atspin.com.

many, many thanks,
janice

Janice Klein
Chair, SMAC-AAM
Director, Mitchell Museum of the American Indian jkl...@kendall.edu
www.mitchellmuseum.org

 




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SM SIG: Small Museums SIG Meeting

2005-10-26 Thread Farrell, David

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, gallery or archives, or who has an interest in technology based
problems faced by smaller museums. The meeting place will be decided at
the conference and can either be a hotel lounge or a
close by restaurant or bar, or a meeting room. Please e-mail me or talk
to me on the Wednesday to give me your preference.

If you are interested in participating in the Small Museum SIG but are
unable to attend the meeting on Thursday please either e-mail me by
Tuesday morning or talk to me at the conference. I would particularly
like to know if you have something say to the items on the Small Museum
SIG meeting agenda:

- Directions and projects which the SIG can take to be more relevant to
small and mediums sized museums.

- Possible themes for the SM SIG sponsored session at 2006 MCN
conference.

- Suggestions for web resources to link to SM SIG page on MCN web site.
This would include case studies submitted by SIG members. The first one
has been posted to the Small Museum SIG page,
http://www.mcn.edu/resources/sigsm/index.htm .

David Farrell, Co-ordinator, Heritage Collections (Chair, Small Museum
SIG)
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East 
Brampton, ON  Canada  L6W 1Y1 
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax 
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage/




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Re: Digital Image Copyright and Fair Use Policies?

2005-10-19 Thread Farrell, David

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 from small museums I can put them on the Small Museums SIG
page as well.

David Farrell, Co-ordinator, Heritage Collections
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East 
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1 
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax 
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage/

-Original Message-
From: bhug...@email.arizona.edu [mailto:bhug...@email.arizona.edu] 
Sent: October 19, 2005 3:08 PM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: Re: Digital Image Copyright and Fair Use Policies?

We too are in the midst of a digitization project. May I have a copy of
your
policies as well?

[Region of Peel]  

> Id be very interested to see what you come up with.  [Region of Peel]

>
> Does anyone on the list have such a policy? Would you be willing to
> share it with me?
>
> Thank you,
>
> Treden Wagoner
>
> Treden Wagoner
> Coordinator of Education Technology Programs
> The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
> 2400 Third Avenue South
> Minneapolis, Minnesota 55404
> 612-870-3189
> Toll free 888-642-2787 extension 3189
> Fax 612-870-3004
> Email twago...@artsmia.org
> http://www.artsMIA.org
> http://www.ArtsConnectEd.org
>[Region of Peel]  
 



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SM SIG: Small Museum SIG meeting in Boston

2005-09-13 Thread Farrell, David

Hi all:

I would like to remind all of you who are attending the Boston MCN
conference in November that the second meeting of the Small Museum SIG
will take place on the Thursday of the conference at 3:00. It is open to
anyone who takes an interest in the problems faced by smaller museums,
whether they work in one or not. One of the issues which will be
discussed is how to raise the profile of this still relatively new SIG
and in the process be relevant to staff wrestling with technology issues
in smaller institutions with limited resources. 

Speaking of which, I am still looking for links to resources relevant to
museum staff from said smaller institutions which I can put on the Small
Museum SIG page at http://www.mcn.edu/resources/sigsm/index.htm .

As well, I strongly encourage anyone on this list with news or questions
relevant to small museums to post them to this list. Just add the prefix
"SM SIG:" to the subject when doing so.

Thanks,

- David Farrell, Chair
MCN Small Museum Special Interest Group

David Farrell, Co-ordinator, Heritage Collections
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East 
Brampton, ON   Canada   L6W 1Y1 
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax 
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage/




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Re: SM SIG: Small Museum SIG page now available

2005-04-21 Thread Farrell, David

Title: SM SIG: Small Museum SIG page now available









Richard,
yes. Has there been a problem with your new e-mail address? I believe I sent
something to you 2-3 weeks ago. It was a c.c. of my confirmation of the SM SIG
session to the MCN Boston 2005 conference committee.

 



David Farrell, Co-ordinator, Heritage Collections 
Peel Heritage Complex 
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage/ 



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From: Richard
 Cloutier [mailto:pass...@hfx.eastlink.ca] 
Sent: April 21, 2005 1:16 PM
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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From: Farrell, David [mailto:david.farr...@peelregion.ca]

Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:55
AM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: 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 work on it.

At this point there are only a few links on it, but I
hope that people
will continue to give me suggestions for links for the page. I also want to
thank all those who gave me useful links last month in reply to my original
message. The choice of which
ones were linked to the page was completely my own.

I would like to encourage anyone with news or links relevant
to small museums
and archives to please
post them to this list. I also
hope that those of you working in small institutions that have technical questions or wish to get advice post
their questions to this list. 

Thanks,

David Farrell,
Co-ordinator, Heritage Collections (Chair, Small Museum SIG)

Peel Heritage Complex

9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage/

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SM SIG: Small Museum SIG page now available

2005-04-08 Thread Farrell, David

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 work on it.

At this point there are only a few links on it, but I hope that people will continue to give me suggestions for links for the page. I also want to thank all those who gave me useful links last month in reply to my original message. The choice of which ones were linked to the page was completely my own.

I would like to encourage anyone with news or links relevant to small museums and archives to please post them to this list. I also hope that those of you working in small institutions that have technical questions or wish to get advice post their questions to this list. 

Thanks,

David Farrell, Co-ordinator, Heritage Collections (Chair, Small Museum SIG)

Peel Heritage Complex

9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage/




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SM SIG: Suggestions for Small Museum SIG page

2005-03-16 Thread Farrell, David

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 which would be of use for staff in smaller museums and archives concerning digitization, databases, web sites, etc. If anyone knows of useful links or of particularly good examples of web sites produced by small museums, please post them to the list and I will consider adding them to the new web page.

As well, I would like encourage staff from small institutions to post their technical questions to this listserv and for anyone to post any links or news which may concern small museums and the adoption of computer technologies.

Thanks,

David Farrell, Co-ordinator, Heritage Collections (Small Museum SIG Chair)

Peel Heritage Complex

9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON    L6W 1Y1

Canada
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage/




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SM SIG: Co-opertive techology projects involving small museums

2005-01-19 Thread Farrell, David

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 aspect of computer technology, e.g. automated collections management systems, digitization projects, virtual exhibits, etc.

I would therefore like to know of any grassroots collaboration projects which involve small museums or archives adopting computer technologies. If there is such a project in your area please either pass on my e-mail address to the project manager or reply to this message either on the listserv or off. The proposal deadline is Feb. 11 and I am looking for someone who can make a 20-25 minute presentation on their project as part of a panel session. I already know of the Passages Project in Nova Scotia, the Colorado Digitization Project and a museum web project based in the Olympic Peninsula of Washington State. I am particularly interested in projects based in regions in Eastern Canada or North-eastern US (so that travel to Boston is not as much of an issue) or which have participants who are already planning to come to the MCN Boston Conference.

Thanks,

-David

David Farrell, Collections Assistant

Peel Heritage Complex

9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON L6W 1Y1

Canada
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage/

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SM SIG - Small Museums SIG inaugural meeting

2004-11-25 Thread Farrell, David

Title: SM SIG - Small Museums SIG inaugural meeting






The new Small Museums Special Interest Group held its inaugural meeting earlier this month during MCN’s annual conference in Minneapolis. Small museums that adopt technologies such as digitization of collections and even automated collections management are severely challenged by budget restraints and limited collections staff members who are already multi-tasking as it is. Maintaining data standards in these kinds of situations is always problematic. A further difficulty is that often technical solutions which are available for museums have been written or created with only larger institutions in mind. Twelve staff from small museums and cooperative museum projects from across North America attended the meeting and shared both their concerns and some of their own solutions to these challenges.

The principal point agreed upon by those who took part is that the Small Museums SIG should be a means for small museums, archives and libraries to share information and success stories. It was proposed that the SIG section of the MCN website be a place where links useful to staff in small museum and case studies of small institutions could be posted. It was also suggested that the theme of a Small Museums SIG sponsored session at the 2005 conference could be cooperative projects involving consortiums of small, sometimes micro, museums.

Even if you are not currently working in a small museum or archives, I would like to encourage any of you who know of any links, web articles, case studies or grants which would be of particular interest to the members of the Small Museums SIG to post them to the MCN listserv.

Thanks,

David Farrell – Chair, Small Museums SIG


David Farrell, Collections Assistant

Peel Heritage Complex

9 Wellington Street East
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Canada
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax
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MCN: Small Museums SIG Inaugeral Meeting

2004-10-29 Thread Farrell, David

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 at the conference registration desk and we will go from there to our meeting place.

The meeting is open to all Small Museums SIG members and other members of MCN who are interested in joining. We will be discussing issues relevant to adopting computer technologies in small museums, art galleries and archives and how we as a newly minted SIG can address these problems in some way. And as we all know if you work in a small museum you’re bound to have issues.

David Farrell, Chair, MCN Small Museums SIG



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Registration software summary

2004-06-02 Thread Farrell, David

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 module of a large (and expensive) software package used for ticketing, development, etc. There does not seem to be any “stand alone” registration software appropriate for a smaller museum or gallery. Ideally, if we were going to go with a larger package it would only do a limited number of things such as ticketing or cash management.

For the time being we can get use an in-house system using Access, once I find the time to design it.

David Farrell, Collections Assistant

Peel Heritage Complex

9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax
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Registration Software

2004-06-01 Thread Farrell, David

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. There are also occasional special programmes and a genealogy class. Our education coordinator would like an on-line system which would store information on the registrants and the classes. It would also have the ability to produce forms for parents to sign, class lists for the instructors, etc.

It could possibly be done, in part at least, with generic database software, but I would like to know if there is proprietary software out there which is appropriate for a small museum.

David Farrell, Collections Assistant

Peel Heritage Complex

9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1 

Canada
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax
http://www.peelregion.ca/heritage/




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Re: SIG for small museums?

2004-05-17 Thread Farrell, David

Title: RE: SIG for small museums?









Hi Rob et al,

 

It could be that many MCN members who are staff at
small museums may not be subscribers to this list serve so a better gauge of
support may be to hold a meeting at the conference. I will compile a list of
names and send out another message closer to the conference date. If you or
anyone else has any suggestions as to how to gather more names of possible participants
other than this list serve, please let me know. If there appears to be some
interest from a few more individuals I will definitely put myself forward as a
prospective chair for the SIG.

 

As for Ann’s question as to the definition
of a small or medium sized museum, art gallery or archives, I don’t think
that it needs to be rigidly defined at this point. It is often a relative term
and it may be one thing in the context of MCN members and another in
terms of all museums which are currently operating. It may suffice that if you
think you are a small institution, then a small museum SIG would be applicable.

 



David Farrell, Collections Assistant 
Peel Heritage Complex 
9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax
www.region.peel.on.ca/heritage/index.htm 



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Message-
From: Rob Lancefield
[mailto:rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu] 
Sent: May 17, 2004 10:19 AM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: RE: SIG for small
museums?

 



Hi all,





 





This does sound like a
great idea for a new SIG--I'd join in a minute!





 





David, might you be up
for pulling together a meeting in Minneapolis (coordinating logistics with
Marla) and in gathering names of interested MCN members in advance?





 





If there's enough
interest and someone (hint, hint) would like to step up as prospective SIG
chair, I'd be delighted to bring the proposal to the board. A chair doesn't
necessarily have to be an expert in all areas a SIG addresses; most important
is a real interest in the subjects at hand--and the motivation to spur topical
discussions, foster involvement, and catalyze a SIG-sponsored conference panel
or two each year. If this sounds interesting and anyone has further questions,
please feel free to contact me on- or off-list, as you wish.





 





best regards,





 





Rob





MCN Board SIG Liaison
(and staff at a small university museum)





 





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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





 





At 10:16 -0700 5/14/04,
Marla wrote:





Sounds
like a great idea, please let me know if you decide to have a meeting (formal
or informal) at the conference in Minneapolis so we can advertise it &
maybe find a location. 





 





Marla
Misunas





Collections
Information Manager





Collections
Information and Access





San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art





(415)
357- 4186 (voice)





(415)
947-1186 (fax)





www.sfmoma.org





___





Board
Member, Museum Computer Network





Conference
Co-Chair, Minneapolis 2004





www.mcn.edu





 





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From: Farrell, David
[mailto:david.farr...@peelregion.ca]
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 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 Group? Or at the
very least an informal discussion at the MCN conference in Minneapolis.





In the context of my own work
situation some of my own concerns centre around keeping up on trends in terms
of new technologies pertinent to museums. I'm sure that others may have other
issues which relevant to smaller institutions with limited resources.





David Farrell, Collections Assistant





Peel Heritage Complex





9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1





Canada
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax





www.region.peel.on.ca/heritage/index.htm





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SIG for small museums?

2004-05-14 Thread Farrell, David

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 Group? Or at the very least an informal discussion at the MCN conference in Minneapolis.

In the context of my own work situation some of my own concerns centre around keeping up on trends in terms of new technologies pertinent to museums. I’m sure that others may have other issues which relevant to smaller institutions with limited resources.

David Farrell, Collections Assistant

Peel Heritage Complex

9 Wellington Street East
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1 

Canada
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax
www.region.peel.on.ca/heritage/index.htm




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Re: FileMaker Pros

2004-04-08 Thread Farrell, David

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
management applications if they do not already have a background in
information technology. Perhaps a long term goal coming out of such a
meeting would be the production of a fact sheet or guide (web based or
otherwise) for those who may choose to go down the self-built
application route or would more information before making that choice.

David Farrell, Collections Assistant
Peel Heritage Complex
9 Wellington Street East 
Brampton, ON   L6W 1Y1 
(905) 791-4055 ext. 3628
(905) 451-4931 fax 
www.region.peel.on.ca/heritage/index.htm

-Original Message-
From: Rob Lancefield [mailto:rlancefi...@wesleyan.edu] 
Sent: April 8, 2004 10:51 AM
To: mcn-l@mcn.edu
Subject: Re: FileMaker Pros

Hi everyone,

All the ideas in this thread sound great. I'm wondering if two very 
informal gatherings in Minneapolis might be useful for two nested 
groups of us--something like:

- one in which we could share ideas about conceptual aspects of 
home-built museum data management tools, as a broadly scoped 
conversation about whatever open-source software or shrink-wrapped 
development environments we're using, and especially about how 
standards figure concretely in what we're doing (or might do) with 
them; and ...

just thinking out loud,
Rob

At 21:33 -0700 4/7/04, Mary Elings wrote:
>
>As co-chair of the Stds&Controlled Vocabulary SIG, I think a get
together
>at MCN would be great

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Registrar of Collections / Manager of Museum Information Services
Davison Art Center   www.wesleyan.edu/dac
301 High Street, Middletown CT 06459 USAtel. 860.685.2965
Board of Directors, Museum Computer Network   www.mcn.edu

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Re: Filemaker