Humanizing the … Proposal Submission Process?
April is almost here, which means the Call for Proposals for the MCN 2018 annual conference in Denver is just around the corner! Some of you may already be thinking about what you’d like to present in November but also, and perhaps just as important, what you’d like to hear from your peers. In…
MCN 2018: Humanizing the Digital
Have you ever wondered how the MCN Program Committee chooses the conference theme? It’s often a messy but always a very thoughtful process. In early February, as we started to contemplate possible directions for themes for this year’s conference, we (the Program Co-Chairs) invited Program Committee members to consider these questions: How have current events and non-museum trends intersected with…
How Might We: Some Questions We’re Asking for MCN 2018
With our Program Co-chairs in place, and our Program Committee filled, work on MCN 2018 has begun in earnest. In fact, one of our first steps began soon after MCN 2017 concluded in Pittsburgh: we took stock of the previous year’s conference by talking to the staff and community members who made it happen and…
MCN 2018 Program Committee – Call for Program Committee Members
Time flies and before you know it we’ll all be in Denver for MCN2018. If you’ve always thought you’d love to contribute to the planning of the conference then this is your opportunity and we’d love to hear from you. The MCN2018 Program Committee is seeking about 40 museum professionals to play a significant role…
Welcome MCN 2018 Program Co-Chairs
Hello, MCN community! Robert Weisberg, Program Chair, here, and I’m thrilled to announce your two new co-chairs for MCN in 2018 and 2019—Adrienne Lalli Hills, Manager, Digital Learning, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and Catherine Devine, Chief Digital Officer at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. They’re joining…
Third Time’s a Charm
By Samantha Norling, Digital Collections Manager, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields As an early-career archivist I found myself working as a “lone arranger” in an art museum—a setting in which I had no previous experience. Early on, I learned from my colleagues in departments throughout the museum about the many organizations and groups in…
Meet the 2018 SIG Chairs
Thank you for participating in the 2017 Annual SIG Chairs Elections. Join me in congratulating each one of our SIG Chairs. Eric Longo, Executive Director Digital Asset Management Chair: Susan Wamsley, Digital Asset Manager, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum I have worked for over ten years in the field of digital asset management setting up DAM systems…
Looking back to move forward: Museum technology in the age of the BIG data
By Dr. Natalia Grincheva, Research Fellow, University of Melbourne This audio blog is a series of short interviews collected from several speakers at the 2017 MCN conference, both academics and professionals while I was an MCN Scholarship recipient. They include brief conversations with former board members, newcomers to the conference, and those who already…
Seeing Myself in the Museum Community
By Monique Lassere, Digital Preservation Librarian, University of Arizona Libraries As a first-time attendee and black librarian, I did not know what to expect at MCN2017. I had applied to the MCN Scholarship Program with the dream that I, an outsider, would be able to experience the museum computing community for a brief period of…
MCN: It’s all about the people
Ben Fast (@benfaster), Programs & Member Services Coordinator, BC Museums Association MCN is all about the people. Don’t get me wrong, the learning experiences available from the remarkably diverse sessions and the fun times visiting local museums and galleries are great, but it all comes down to who you meet. From Day 1…
Eye Opening Inspiration
By Kat Quigley, (@kathryncquigley) Senior Producer and New Media Lead, Lawrence Hall of Science Attending MCN this year as a Scholar was not what I expected—and that’s because I really didn’t know what to expect. MCN 2017 was my first time attending a museum conference of any kind. Although I’ve been working at…
MCN 2017 PoC Dinner
By Lourdes Santamaría-Wheeler (@musarian) MCN took a bold step forward this year with three African American speakers, two of them women, on stage to keynote the conference discussing race and equity. Woah. See, lots of people talk the talk, but this year MCN wove the themes of reconciliation and equity throughout the conference. A…