"Indigo Nights"
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7. Offering such information on
this list should not
turn into a pissing contest everytime
one person's
information poses a potential challenge
to another
person's turf. There are far too
many,
undercompensated, out of work, looking
for a job,
about to graduate, huge college debt
museum
professionals that need the information,
and like just
about everything else, one size doesn't
fit all.
Dr. Muller-Straten's listings, I'm
confident, have a
sound audience.
Dear Indigo Nights,
of course, I am not intending to start what you call "a pissing contest"
(I think, also Roger does not keep this in mind.)
This is not my niveau and not my intention. What I tried to do is giving
at least Roger a hint that his offer of 70 free positions is not much in
comparison with others and therefore can not be called target No. 1
(what he did) if somebody looks for a new job. Our system is based on
free information. Where information is withheld or made payable, our
system has to fail (Several job lists are existing in the cultural area
which are open only to members. They do not allow to copy their contents
because this would ruin their business).
As we are relatively new in the anglosaxon museum world (excuse my
teutonic English, by the way), I also would like to explain some facts.
Our company was established in 1995, so we had 10 years celebrities this
autumn. We are art historians with a background in social history,
archeology, prehistory, anthropology, folk
art, science of communication, political science, as well as 22 years
of
commercial experience in publications houses, both small and big, as
well as libraries and archives. As a small company and sticking in deep
repression, we are working together with 7 teleworkers.
From the beginning onwards, we were producing the monthly magazine
MUSEUM AKTUELL as well as thesauri for documentation in museums as well
as museological books in English and
German. Since several years we were publishing also English articles in
MUSEUM AKTUELL and since 2 years, all German articles got an English
summary and all English ones an German. This magazine has its target
group only in museum professionals, not visitors. As the only German
monthly museum magazine we are well established in Europe and still
growing. In the beginning we were publishg 20-30 job references in
MUSEUM AKTUELL; but then we took this part off, enlarged it to about 150
hints and put it in the internet.
Since about 8 years we had a cooperation with the online portal
Webmuseen. When this portal broke down between December 2004 and March
2005, we decided to build up our own portal with 20 moduls. It took us
the whole April 2005. On May 1st, 2005, we opened our portal choosing a
symbolic date. This portal now reaches both museum professionals and
museum visitors.
One of the offers is the button "Job references". Today it has only 208
open positions, but during the next days new positions will follow again
to reach our normal level of about 230 hints. Besides this module, there
are several other databases being fed day by day. There is also a German
and English free news service, containing content of global (f.e. ICOM)
and European interest. Our scientists' database is also free of charge
(but only in German), but have a look also into our daily growing
European museum and exhibition modules. These are also free of charge.
In October 2005, our pages were already visited more than 120.000
times.
Now, why are we doing all this and how do we finance it? All our offer
is part of a network. We look at the museum world from the outside with
humour and some distance - we are not staying at the inside or PR level
of a museum association. We do this, because we believe in museums and
their future (against all odds). We are passionate museum visitors and
lay museologists. We always realized that finding a new job in the
museum world can be very difficult and a long-term process (in contrary
to short-term employments!), because information is sometimes withheld,
spread in different media, times and places. The challenge was, as you
have called it, to collect all known data and offer it to the one in
need. We finance this by a mixed system: A small part pays the person
looking for a new job, most of the costs are payed by ads. We have a
price list giving good discounts also to museums, so this is all about.
Do not hesitate to ask us for more information if you like.
Dr. Christian Müller-Straten
Verlag Dr. Christian Müller-Straten / MUSEUMS AGENTUR
Kunzweg 23, 81243 München, T. 089-839 690 43, Fax -44
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