Early registration deadline extended to June 30, 2002! It’s not too late to join the:

UCLA/Getty

Museums, Libraries and Archives:

Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing

July 29-August 1, 2002

Los Angeles

The fourth annual Summer Institute for Knowledge Sharing is an intensive four days of instruction and dialogue for professionals involved in creating, sharing, and preserving electronic information in museums, libraries, archives, and other cultural heritage institutions. Invited are information specialists, registrars, librarians, archivists, curators, researchers, and educators with responsibility for managing and disseminating collections information on line. Participants attend sessions in which they work closely with leading professionals, UCLA professors, and fellow attendees from around the United States and abroad. Through a combination of lectures, group discussions, and exercises, participants will be immersed in the issues and decision points that institutions face in the acquisition, management, and preservation of digital collections. Special attention will be paid to the increasing convergence between, and contributions of, museum, library, and archive perspectives in the digital environment. Sessions will include:

• Introduction to Collections Digitization Projects
• Funding Challenges, Strategies and Opportunities
• Thinking Through Digitization Projects: Planning, Users, and Usability
• Creating Digital Resources: Tools and Methods for How We Work Today, Metadata and Vocabularies
• Improving Collaborations Using Appreciative Inquiry
• Managing Collections Digitization Projects: Workflow, Asset Management, and Preservation

In addition to coursework, participants will take part in a number of events designed to complement their workshops including, an introductory continental breakfast, collegial luncheons, an opening night reception, time to visit to the J. Paul Getty Museum, and a closing reception at the Getty Center. Sessions and events will be held on the UCLA campus, July 29-31, and at the Getty Center, August 1.

Registration Fees:

$750 (by June 30, 2002)

$850 (after June 30, 2002)

For more information go to:

http://dlis.gseis.ucla.edu/si