[Scmusenet] McKissick Museum hosts AAM professional development webinar series

[BURGESS, LANA]

The staff of McKissick Museum invite you to join us on Wednesday, July
15 for the second in the American Association of Museum's Museum
Essentials Webinar Series.

 

We have covered the registration fee. Now all we need is you! Come join
our group as we watch, listen, and participate in a discussion of
today's current issues.

 

If you are interested, please come to room 306 (classroom) on the third
floor of McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina (corner of
Bull and Pendleton Streets). Please share this email with any of your
colleagues, staff and students. Thanks!

 

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Collections Conundrums
<http://www.aam-us.org/getinvolved/learn/collectionsconundrums.cfm> 
July 15, 2009
2-3:30 p.m. (Eastern)
In collaboration with the Museum Assessment Program (MAP) and the AAM
Registrar's Committee (RC-AAM)
Sponsored by LearningTimes

Description
Museum registrars, collections managers and curators: Join experienced
colleagues in a practical review of collection issues made more
difficult by dwindling resources, energy and time. Topics to be covered
include institutional guidelines, processing incoming objects,
accessioning, and keeping track of collections. Come armed with your
toughest collection conundrums and your best efforts to "stump the
experts."

Who Should Attend
Registrars, collections managers, curators, anyone who deals with
collections in a museum.

Led by
Jeanne Benas*, Registrar, National Museum of American History,
Smithsonian Institution
Rebecca A. Buck**, Deputy Director for Collection Services, Newark
Museum
Jean Gilmore**, Registrar, Brandywine River Museum

*Chair, AAM Registrars Committee (RC-AAM)
**Co-authors of the AAM-published best-sellers New Museum Registration
Methods (1998); On the Road Again: Developing and Managing Traveling
Exhibitions (2003) and Collection Conundrums: Solving Collections
Management Mysteries (2007).

Museum registrars, collections managers and curators: Join experienced
colleagues in a practical review of collection issues made more
difficult by dwindling resources, energy and time. Topics to be covered
include institutional guidelines, processing incoming objects,
accessioning, and keeping track of collections. Come armed with your
toughest collection conundrums and your best efforts to "stump the
experts."

 

 

Lana A. Burgess

Faculty Curator, McKissick Museum

Director, Certificate Program in Museum Management

University of South Carolina

816 Bull Street

Columbia, SC 29208

E: LBurgess at mailbox.sc.edu

P: 803.777.5486

 

 

Lana A. Burgess

Faculty Curator, McKissick Museum

Director, Certificate Program in Museum Management 

University of South Carolina

816 Bull Street

Columbia, SC 29208

E: LBurgess at mailbox.sc.edu

P: 803.777.5486

 

 

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