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Save the Date!
Join the Museum Computer Network in Chicago for our Annual Conference,
November 7 – 10, 2007.
Building Content, Building Community: 40 Years of Museum Information and
Technology
REGISTRATION OPENS IN SEPTEMBER
Visit www.mcn.edu/conferences <http://www.mcn.edu/conferences> for
registration information, preliminary program and hotel & travel
information.
MCN is a nonprofit organization with members representing a wide range
of information professionals from hundreds of museums and cultural
heritage institutions in the United States and around the world.
Over the past 40 years MCN has become known for the outstanding
conferences we produce, bringing together professionals from museums all
over—large and small, art, history, science; as well as colleagues from
libraries and archives. For years our conferences have explored the
latest technology while helping our contemporaries implement best
practices in museum technology.
Conferences always feature exemplary speakers and sessions; this year in
Chicago we’re kicking off the conference by bringing the whole group
together for a day of meetings and plenary talks on the topic of
leadership in our museum information profession. The first day of the
conference will help set the scene for the stimulating presentations and
discussions in the three days to follow.
As the museum field has grown and expanded in the past half-century, we
have become more and more specialized, learning primarily from those
whose experiences most closely mirror our own – art with art, science
with science, etc. This conference will reaffirm and revitalize our
broader connections across these types of institutions.
MCN will revive the cross-disciplinary vision of 40 years ago and
explore its promise in the present day, encouraging participation from
institutions across the museum spectrum. How we are the same? How are we
different? How have we dealt, successfully and unsuccessfully, with the
overlapping efforts in documentation, professionalism, and use of
technology across the museum community? What are we doing right, and
what do we need to do better?
Today, MCN members are creating everything from databases to podcasts;
handling digital imaging and preservation; and working with information
management, IT, and Web 2.0. You name it, our members are doing it,
talking about it, and helping others achieve results.
We hope to see you in Chicago!
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