#MCN50 Voices: Dan Dennehy & Charles Zange
This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices brings members together, old and new, near and far. Charles Zange, Digital Imaging Technician at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., and Dan Dennehy, Head of Visual Resources at the Minneapolis Institute of…
#MCN50 Voices: Rachel Ropeik & Charlotte Sexton
A spin of the wheel, a roll of the dice, a timely conversation. When you spend time deconstructing your working life and reflecting on those pivotal moments that have pushed you forward (or knocked you back), it doesn’t take long to realize that in the game of career ‘Chutes and Ladders,’…
#MCN50 Voices: Dana Allen-Greil & Arielle Feldman
Dana Allen-Greil and Arielle Feldman were paired up for the #MCN50 Voices project, which invites members of the MCN community to interview each other about their careers and the field of museum technology as a whole. Being #musesocial gals, Dana and Arielle decided to conduct their interview live on Twitter–emojis, gifs, and all. Here is…
#MCN50 Voices: 10 Words and 2 Challenges from Holly Witchey & Angela Spinazzè
This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices brings members together, old and new, near and far. In this video conversation, experienced professionals Angela Spinazzè, Principal at ATSPIN Consulting & Holly Witchey, Principal at Relevant Museums Consulting, take us back to revisit their first projects of…
MCN 2016 Sessions – NMC Horizon Report 2016 Museum Edition
NMC Horizon Report > 2016 Museum Edition Friday, November 4, 2016 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Co-Presenter : Alex Freeman, Senior Director, Membership and Special Projects, New Media Consortium Session Leader : Nik Honeysett, Director and CEO, BPOC The NMC’s Horizon Report, created with input from many MCN members, has helped museums and universities set…
Cooking up the MCN 2017 Theme with 50+ Chefs in the Kitchen
After days of virtual sharing, commiserating, wordsmithing, and voting, the MCN 2017 theme has arrived! MCN 2017: Looking Back, Thinking Forward, Taking Action Every year, MCN explores topics of relevance to museum practitioners working with, or affected by, digital media and technology. In 2017, MCN will focus on how museums can use…
Support AAM’s Speak Up for Museums campaign
Like many of our peer organizations, we, at MCN (Museum Computer Network), were alarmed today to see the dramatic scale of the proposed cuts to federal funding of America’s arts and cultural organizations. While MCN isn’t formally an advocacy agency, our members represent a wide range of information professionals from hundreds of cultural sector institutions…
MCN 50 – Today is Tomorrow
By Marla Misunas, MCN50 Co-Chair, Collections Information Manager, SFMOMA The Museum Computer Network (MCN) got its start in 1967 when local New York museum directors met at the Whitney Museum of American Art in the Spring of 1967, to explore ways of using technology newly developed by computer scientists such as Jack Heller at…
Looking to the past, seeing the future: MCN 1968
This #MCN50 post brought to you by Charles Zange A year after its founding, MCN hosted its first major conference: “A Conference on Computers and their Potential Applications in Museums.” The Metropolitan Museum of Art hosted the event, which was supported by a grant from IBM. Over three days in April, participants came together to…
Welcome MCN 2016 Program Co-Chair, Rob Weisberg!
Post by Program co-chair, Trish Oxford Jennifer Foley and I are excited to announce that Rob Weisberg will be our newest Program Co-Chair for #MCN2017! This year, in addition to developing the conference theme, call for proposals, program structure, and creative events, the Program Committee will also ensure that MCN’s 50th anniversary gets recognized…
#MCN50 Voices: Andrea Ledesma & Diana Folsom
Post by Andrea Ledesma This year MCN celebrates its 50th anniversary. From birthday parties to archive dives, and of course to the annual conference, there’s no shortage of opportunities to honor this landmark year. Today, we’re kicking off #MCN50 Voices. Just as MCN has established a network of established and emerging professionals, #MCN50 Voices…
#MCN50 – The MCN Archives
In fifty years, MCN has collected a lot of history. The principle repository for MCN’s records is the Smithsonian Institution Archives (SIA) in downtown Washington DC. MCN records totaling nearly fifty boxes are spread across six record groups at SIA. These collections include everything from news articles and financial records to board minutes and conference…