Professional Development & Workshops
This page lists professional development workshops being held around the state that may be of interest to museum professionals.
If you have a workshop you would like listed, please email the following address with your request to Richard Prouty .
Workshops are listed as a courtesy and a service to museums and museum professionals. These listings in no way reflect CAMA's endorsement.
Arizona Commission on the Arts
Fiscal Year 2011 Grants Cycle Now Open
Grants for Organizations and Schools
Your state arts agency is pleased to announce that the fiscal year 2011 (July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011) Guides to Grants for Organizations and Schools are now available on our website at www.azarts.gov. The deadline to apply is Thursday, March 18, 2010. Some grant programs have letter of intent or draft submission deadlines of Friday, February 26, 2010.
FAzA Workshop
Archival Description Standards
February 22, 2010
Hayden Library, ASU in Tempe
There are still some seats available for the Archival Description Workshop Series sponsored by FAzA and the Museum Association of Arizona (MAA).
These two workshops are designed to assist museum professionals in preparing their collections for online accessibility will be presented in February and March.
The first, Archival Description Standards, will be held on February 22 at Hayden Library at Arizona State University in Tempe. Presented by Michael Lotstein and Catalina Oyler, from ASU's Department of Archives and Special Collection, the workshop will provide museum professionals with the tools and resources necessary for applying acceptable archival descriptive practices to their archival collections.
The second, Publishing Archival Finding Aids Using EAD, will be held on March 15 at Hayden Library. Also presented by Lotstein and Oyler, it will teach participants how to catalog a finding aid using Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and to publish the finding aid online through Arizona Archives Online, a statewide consortium for archival finding aids.
The cost of these workshops is very reasonable. This is part of a joint initiative by FAzA and MAA to provide improved services for archivists that work in museum settings.
For more information, visit the FAzA website: http://faza.org/
Speak Up For Museums AAM Announces Museums Advocacy Day 2010!
March 22-23
Museum advocates from around the country will gather in Washington, DC on March 22-23 for Museums Advocacy Day 2010! During the two-day program, participants will be briefed on the museum field's legislative agenda and will learn how to effectively communicate the value of museums to public policy makers. The second day will consist of visits to Capitol Hill where advocates will make their case to Congress.
"We cannot assume that Members of Congress know all the ways in which museums are essential," said AAM President Ford Bell. "Museums Advocacy Day is such a terrific opportunity to bring this unified message to Capitol Hill, and I hope all segments of the museum field will be able to participate in 2010."
Visit www.speakupformuseums.org for more information.
CLICK HERE to see the announcement video and hear from AAM President Ford Bell!SAVE THE DATE
Museum Association of Arizona's
28th Annual Meeting
SPEAKING UP FOR MUSEUMS:
INSTITUTIONAL ADVOCACY
June 3-5, 2010
Sedona
Click here for full announcement.
Click here for Call for Sessions announcement.Click here for "Speaking Up for Museums" flier.
Click here to read about Dennis Kavanaugh, keynote speaker.
SAVE THE DATE
PHOENIX is the Host Community for the
2010
VISITOR STUDIES ASSOCIATION
Conference!!
July 27- 31, 2010
Who is VSA?
Have you ever wondered how VISITORS view your institution?
Has anyone considered evaluation or studying visitors?
VSA is today’s premier professional organization focusing on all facets of the visitor
experience in museums, zoos, nature centers, visitor centers, historical sites, parks
and other informal learning settings.
VSA is committed to understanding and enhancing visitor experiences in informal learning settings through research, evaluation, and dialogue.
Our common vision is for a world where lifelong learning is embraced, and where learning in
informal settings benefits individuals, communities, and society at large. Whether you call
them visitors, guests or audience members, the Visitor Studies Association is all about the
people you serve.
VSA welcomes anyone interested in understanding and making use of new knowledge about the visiting public.
What does this mean to you?
Centered at the Wyndham Phoenix Hotel in downtown Phoenix 150-200 museum colleagues from all over the world will arrive in Phoenix to network, collaborate, learn
and visit our metro area museums.
This is a great opportunity for our cultural and heritage institutions to show-off our community.
The Phoenix Local Host Committee (co-chaired by Anne Wallace, Nancy Cutler and JoAnn Stuckey) is
making arrangements at museums in the Phoenix metro area to include
two days of pre-conference workshops - about 14 of them - and three special showcase evening events. We have large shoes to fill from
prior conferences, but we are confident that our great museum community here will shine!
For perks there will be many opportunities for professional development learning about visitors and visitor studies, for volunteering (= attending some free workshops or sessions), and for networking with museum colleagues from North and South America, Europe, Australia and Asia, all of whom are interested in the visitor experience in museums.
If anyone from your institution is interested in learning more or volunteering with this fun and energetic conference please contact one of the three chairs listed below.- Anne Wallace anne.wallace3@gte.net (623) 980-8383
- Nancy Cutler nancycutler@cox.net (602) 841-2634
- JoAnn Stuckey jasconsultant@juno.com (480) 488-7992
About VSA
VSA is today’s premier professional organization focusing on all facets of the visitor experience in museums, zoos, nature centers, visitor centers, historical sites, parks and other informal learning settings.
Areas of visitor studies include…- Interpretation/educational programs
- Marketing and public relations
- Audience research
- Visitor orientation and circulation in unguided settings
- Exhibit and program design/evaluation
- Label and graphic design/evaluation
- Design and evaluation of interactive devices
- How people behave in public places
- Factors that facilitate visitor satisfaction and learning
What does the Visitor Studies Association do?
- Sponsors the annual Visitor Studies Conference
- Publishes and distributes Visitor Studies to members
- Provides ongoing development of professional networks among interpreters, educators, designers, and others who work with visitors in informal learning environments
- Sponsors professional development workshops
- Promotes visitor-related publications
- Disseminates information about current research and other news of interest to members through a bi-monthly E-Newsletter
To learn more about the VSA please visit their website at www.visitorstudies.org or contact us at info@visitorstudies.org
Upstate History Alliance
Winter/Spring 2010 Online Courses
The Upstate History Alliance is pleased to announce our Winter/Spring 2010 slate of Collections Care & Preservation Online Courses!
These courses provide basic, practical training at a low cost (starting at just $45!) Courses are designed for staff, interns and volunteers at small to mid-sized museums. They're designed to be taken at your own pace with assignments based on your own collections, and offer interaction with qualified instructors.
The following courses will be offered starting February 2010:
Introduction to Reformatting
Climate Control for Small Institutions
Basic Preservation and Care of Paper Based Materials
Conservation and Preservation of Photographs and Albums
Collections Management 101
For more information on these courses, or to register, please visit http://www.upstatehistory.org/services/OnlineLearningCommunities.html
Museum Development Associates
and
Eastern New Mexico University
Announces
Small Museum Pro!
Distance Learning for Museum Training & Development
Santa Fe, New Mexico (August 12, 2009) - Museum Development Associates of Santa Fe has entered into a collaborative agreement to offer a professional certification program of five courses in museum skills and training, to be delivered through Eastern New Mexico University’s distance learning program.
The program, Small Museum Pro!, will lead to professional certification for workers in small and rural museums throughout the country, and will focus on practical museum training. The initial offering, beginning in August 2009, will include 20 students from some of the over 200 museums in New Mexico and the surrounding region. Courses, delivered only online, will cover Museum Administration, Collections Management, Collections Care, Exhibitions, and Museum Education and Outreach.
Each course will be offered through the Eastern New Mexico University Distance Education and Outreach Department. With the successful completion of each course, students will earn three Continuing Education Units (CEUs). Courses will cost $195 ($65 per CEU). To receive the Small Museum Pro! certification, participants will need to complete all five courses.
Most of New Mexico’s small museum staffers and directors enter the museum field after working in some other capacity, and many represent underserved populations. Although their museums often contain important artifacts of authentic material culture and history, many remain hidden due to inexperience and lack of museum skills knowledge. As a result, preservation and exhibition methods frequently do not reach the standard of care and management found in areas with less isolation and greater availability of funds. The partnership will also encourage young adults to enroll and enter the museum field.
Museum Development Associate’s Small Museum Pro! program is not a museum studies degree program; rather, it is designed to overcome the gaps in professional training commonly found among small, emerging and rural museum workers as well as to provide affordable, practical professional development and certification to those in remote geographic areas.
The following courses will be offered during the 2009 – 2010 academic year:
- Fall Semester 2009
1st eight weeks:
Building Effective Museum Exhibits
2nd eight weeks:
Running and Managing a Small Museum
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Spring Semester 2010
1st eight weeks:
Managing and Organizing Museum Collections
2nd eight weeks:
Caring for Museum Collections -
Summer Semester 2010
Museum Education: Crafting Great Learning Experiences
Initial funding for this program was made possible with monies provided by the New Mexico State Legislature.
To find out more, click here
Contact:
M. Susan Barger, PhD - Director
Museum Development Associates
tel. 505.466.3480
museumdevelopment@earthlink.net
www.museumdevelopment.org
The University of Arizona
School of Information Resources and Library Sciences
Announces
Digital Information Mangement Certification Program
The University of Arizona Digital Information Management (DigIn) online graduate certificate program has been awarded a prestigious grant of over $900,000 from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services, primarily to fund scholarships.
The DigIn curriculum combines intensive, hands-on technology learning with a thorough grounding in the theoretical principles needed to manage large and complex digital collections.
The program takes a comprehensive, interdisciplinary approach to managing digital information and is designed to support a wide range of career paths, especially involving libraries, museums, archives, and records management.
Graduate certificates are increasingly being recognized as a means for professionals with advanced degrees to update their knowledge and skills. DigIn also offers a path for those with undergraduate degrees who are interested in digital collections but who may not yet be ready to commit to a full degree program.
The grant will also greatly boost DigIn's mission to foster disciplinary, institutional, geographic, and cultural diversity in the management of digital collections and services.
Thus, DigIn strongly encourages scholarship applicants representing historically underserved institutions, regions, and communities, as well as students expressing interest in working with digital collections in culturally diverse settings.
DigIn is now accepting applications for admission and financial aid for the Fall 2009 semester. The application deadline has just been extended to July 10.
Late applications will be accepted, though Fall admission cannot be guaranteed once the July 10 deadline has passed. Late applicants will also be considered for admission in the Spring 2010 semester.
The program is delivered entirely online and does not require students to reside in or travel to Tucson. Students generally complete the certificate in 4-6 semesters (15-27 months).
DigIn was founded in 2007 with major funding from Institute of Museum and Library Services, the primary source of federal support for the nation?s 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums. The Institute's mission is to create strong libraries and museums that connect people to information and ideas.
Our current partners also include the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the Sedona Conference.
Additional details on the program including course descriptions, admissions requirements and application forms may be found on the program website:
Prospective applicants are also welcome to contact the DigIn staff at: digin@email.arizona.edu
Click here to see the DigIn brochure.
