Every month, Wild Apricot (a membership management system) posts a roundup of free upcoming webinars. Some of them are a bit run-of-the-mill, but some of them are useful and interesting. Did I mention they’re also free? You can’t ask for better bang for your buck. …
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The American Association for State and Local History’s Annual Conference is an amazingly good time for museum & history professionals, but this year it’s being held all the way across the country from us in Salt Lake City, Utah.
If your student budget can’t stretch to cover airfare and the hotel, consider this terrific idea instead: attending the conference online. For a pretty low fee, you can get access to (in my opinion) some of the very best and most interesting sessions at the conference. If anyone is interested in splitting the group attendance fee at the member discount, let me know and perhaps we can arrange a Tufts viewing party!
Here’s what AASLH has to say:
Can’t come to Salt Lake City but still want to attend the AASLH Annual Meeting? You can still attend the Online Conference and attend six hot topic sessions from the 2012 Annual Meeting, plus featured speakers, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich and Will Bagley!
Online Conference Sessions:
- Too Important to Fail! Historic House Museums Meet Communities’ Needs
- Bad Boards, Bad Boards, What’cha Gonna Do: Strategies for Fixing Poorly Functioning Museum Boards
- Localizing Difficult Histories
- The Changing Web: The Future of the (History) Website
- Yield to On-Coming Traffic: No Stopping Strollers and Small Feet
- What Do History Museums Really Need to Know About Their Visitors’ Experience?
Visit the Online Conference Website for more information and the full schedule.
- $55 Individuals
- $105 Individuals
- $95 Group
- $145 Group
- $115 Group, multiple log ins
- $175 Group, multiple log ins
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Tufts Adjunct Professor Margherita Desy sent us this ringing endorsement of an upcoming event at the Boston Athanaeum:
I have been a member of the Athenaeum for many years and often bring my collections management in as a field trip. The Athenaeum’s collections run from fine arts (including paintings, sculpture and photography) and decorative arts, to rare books and manuscripts, to a vast circulating collection. Exhibitions and lectures are held frequently. I would highly recommend that graduate students in the Tufts Museum Studies program attend the reception or one of the many public tours provided by the Boston Athenaeum so that they may become familiar with this local treasure. I should also mention that the Athenaeum has also hosted one of our Museum Studies student as an intern.
Sounds fantastic, right? Here are the details, and if anyone from Tufts attends, drop us a line and let us know how it went!
Graduate Student Reception
Wednesday, September 12, 2012
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.
The Development Office of the Boston Athenaeum has established a group of
current graduate students who are also interested in the collections and
educational programs of the Boston Athenaeum. If you would like to know
more about the Athenaeum and its historic collection, please join us for
this reception on September 12th at 5.30. Please RSPV to Karen Beach at
beach[at]bostonathenaeum[dot]org – reservations are required and space is filling
up fast.