Please excuse the cross posting! Sustaining Communities: The Power of Museums New England Museum Association Annual Conference, November 12-14, 2008 Warwick, Rhode Island Join more than 800 colleagues in your region for networking and high-quality professional development. Affordable registration rates—including lunches—are available. Institutional members at any level may register all staff at the member rate. Scholarships and volunteer opportunities are also available. Come explore near-by Providence, a renaissance city with world-class museums, a revitalized downtown and the quaint and historic East Side. The conference hotel, the beautifully renovated Crowne Plaza, is just minutes away with affordable room rates and plenty of free parking. Everything you love about the NEMA conference—big enough to offer more than 60 sessions… intimate enough to meet friends and colleagues. Timely, high-quality sessions include: Choosing a New Path: Alternative Uses for Historic Sites with Ken Turino of Historic New England Sustaining Our Heritage: Collaborative Historical Records Projects Textile Conservation 101 and Scrapbook Conservation with Deborah Wender of NEDCC Beyond Board Orientation: Inspiring & Sustaining Trustees How Do I Get an Intern (When They All Want to Go to the MFA)? with Cynthia Robinson Building an Exhibit with the Community Making Museum Collections Accessible: An Important Goal of the Museum The Little Museum that Could! (and Did!) a Capital Campaign with Peg Baker of Pilgrim Hall Museum Power in Numbers - Driving Tourism Traffic and Building Community Fundraising in Today’s Economy Plus leadership conversations with former AAM Board member Bill Eiland; author of the newly revised “Museums in Motion” Mary Alexander; and marketing consultant Dorothy Chen-Courtin. Preliminary program books and registration forms are available online and will be mailed in early September. For more information, please visit www.nemanet.org. ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).