Attention, Museum and Cultural Heritage Professionals:
Take advantage of these workshops with top-notch instructors to sharpen your skills and enhance your career. Register now!
Developing Museum Tours
April 6-7 (Friday-Saturday)
Kent
332 Library
Instructor: Edith Serkownek
CRN = 21889
This workshop will examine the important role that museum tours play in fulfilling museums’ educational and programmatic goals. Students will examine the various types and styles of personally and technologically-mediated tours and look at their successful development as well as weighing their relative strengths and limitations. Students will learn to use museum tours as a tool for communicating with specialized museum audiences including children, families and special interest groups.
Museums and the Law
Online: March 26-April 27
Instructor: John Simmons
CRN = 21890
In this workshop, students will examine the ways in which museums and the law intersect from a variety of perspectives including museum organization and board functions, national and international laws and regulations, intellectual property, cultural appropriation, and freedom of expression. Students will gain a broad overview of the most significant legislation and regulations that affect museum operations.
All the best,
Flo
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Flo Cunningham
Marketing Communications and Public Relations Director
School of Library and Information Science
Kent State University
330-672-0003
www.kent.edu/slis
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SAVE THE DATE:
Reserve a spot at the 2012 Library and Information Professions Careers Night: http://bit.ly/CareersNight2012
Kent: Tuesday, February 28 / Columbus: Thursday, March 8
28th Annual Virginia Hamilton Conference on Multiculture Literature for Youth, April 12 & 13, 2012
2nd Annual Conference on Information and Religion, May 18 & 19, 2012
I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. -- Jorge Luis Borges