Pre-Conference Workshops at the Annual Museum Computer Network
Conference
September 23 - 26, 1998
Santa Monica, CA, USA

Apologies for cross-postings.

The Museum Computer Network announces 11 Pre-Conference Workshops,
listed below, to be offered Wednesday, September 23, 1998 before the
annual conference. All are half-day workshops, except "Information
Management in Museums: Planning and Implementing Successful Systems "
which runs the full day. For complete workshop descriptions, visit
http://www.mcn.edu/MCN98.

Stay tuned to the Web site for further conference program details coming
soon!  If you prefer hard copy, send a note to the MCN Office to make
sure you're on the mailing list for the preliminary program. (Note all
MCN members will receive a copy of the preliminary program.)

MCN Membership Office, 8720 Georgia Avenue, Suite 501, Silver Spring,
MD, 20910. Tel: (301) 585-4413, Fax: (301) 495-0810, E-mail: [log in to unmask]

MCN PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS (September 23, 1998):
"Managing Digital Imaging Projects", with Mikki Carpenter, and Linda
Serenson Colet, Museum of Modern Art

"Kick-Starting Your Intranet", with Sam Quigley, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, and Lara Greenwood, Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology

"Strategic Technology Planning for Museums", with Robert L. Anderson,
Anderson Technologies

"Empowering the Visitor at the Museum Web Site: Designing Points of
Response and Interaction for the Visitor", with Susan Hazan, The Israel
Museum

"Negotiating Skills for Licensing Museum Content", with Amalyah Keshet,
The Israel Museum, and Lesley Ellen Harris, Copyright and New Media
Lawyer

"Information Management in Museums: Planning and Implementing Successful
Systems", with Leslie Latta-Guthrie, University of Alberta, and Charlene
Garvey, Museums Alberta: Information Network

"Using the Getty Vocabularies (Thesaurus of Geographic Names, Art &
Architecture Thesaurus, Union List of Artist Names)", with Michelle
Futornick, Alison Chipman, Lala Lalami, Christi Richardson, Robin
Johnson, and Patricia Harpring, Getty Information Institute

"Building a Project Plan: A Hands-On Workshop", with Holly Rarick
Witchey, San Diego Museum of Art

"Knowledge Management in Museums: Approaches, Tools, and Issues", with
Guy Hermann, Mystic Seaport Museum

"Web Usability: Creating User-Friendly Web Sites", with Dr. Jurek
Kirakowski, University College Cork and Dr. Nigel Claridge, NOMOS
Management AB

"In-House Production Procedures for Museum Multimedia", with Chris
Larrance and Peter Samis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Robin
Lilien and Charles Passela, J. Paul Getty Museum, and Brian Sullivan, J.
Paul Getty Trust