The Association of Midwest Museums announced the program for its 2013 conference. The conference, Locally Grown, Community Created, is scheduled for July 14-17, 2013 at the Concourse Hotel in Madison, Wisconsin. The program can be downloaded from the AMM Home Page http://www.midwestmuseums.org. This year’s program has sessions addressing new trends, emerging issues, and best practices in various administrative areas of museum operations. Here is a sample of some sessions that will be featured at this year’s conference:
COLLECTIONS
- What’s in a Name? Cataloging Using Nomenclature 3.0
- Locally Grown, Federally Regulated: How Small Local Museums Can Leverage State and Federal Guidelines to Benefit Their Collections
- The Right Tool for the Job: Selecting a Collections Management System that Works for You
- Disaster Response Plans: Today’s Issues
- Reap Benefits: Grow Community Interaction through Shared Collection Databases
- With Orders to Identify, Clarify and Classify: Collections Metadata in the Trenches
- Telling the Story of the Civil War through Seven Local Collections: A Collaborative Project
EDUCATION
- Reimagining an Educational Loan Program for the 21st Century
- SPARK! Cultural Community Engagement for People with Memory Loss
- Science Teaching Network: Embracing Change and Fostering Sustainability
- Locally Grown, Internationally Known: Showcasing Community Voices in Mobile Content
- Changing Times, New Collaborations
- Evolution 101: Investigating How Education Programs are Designed, Repurposed, and Evolved
- Local Partnerships Building Communities
- The Living Laboratory
- Enriching the Lives of Early Learners Through Science, Technology, Engineering and Math
- App, App, and Away with Productive Partnerships
- A Bright Future: Creating a New Generation of Committed Patrons
- Nature Net: A Collaborative Environmental Education Network
FINANCE
- The Bottom Line: Understanding Nonprofit Financials
- Budget Basics: Creating and Managing Your Department’s Budget
- Future Think
FUNDRAISING
- Case Writing 101 Workshop
- Fundraising in Turbulent Times
- So the Capital Campaign is Over…But Fundraising Must Go On!
- Trends in Fundraising
- Future Think
TECHNOLOGY
- Locally Grown, Internationally Known: Showcasing Community Voices in Mobile Content
- Trends in Technology: The Digital Road Ahead
- There’s an App for That
- App, App, and Away with Productive Partnerships
- Mobile Tours and Portable Content