MCN 2007 Conference

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Save the Date!

Join the Museum Computer Network in Chicago for our Annual Conference, 
November 7  10, 2007.

Building Content, Building Community: 40 Years of Museum Information and 
Technology

REGISTRATION OPENS IN SEPTEMBER

Visit www.mcn.edu/conferences <http://www.mcn.edu/conferences> for 
registration information, preliminary program and hotel & travel 
information.

MCN is a nonprofit organization with members representing a wide range 
of information professionals from hundreds of museums and cultural 
heritage institutions in the United States and around the world.

Over the past 40 years MCN has become known for the outstanding 
conferences we produce, bringing together professionals from museums all 
overlarge and small, art, history, science; as well as colleagues from 
libraries and archives. For years our conferences have explored the 
latest technology while helping our contemporaries implement best 
practices in museum technology.

Conferences always feature exemplary speakers and sessions; this year in 
Chicago were kicking off the conference by bringing the whole group 
together for a day of meetings and plenary talks on the topic of 
leadership in our museum information profession. The first day of the 
conference will help set the scene for the stimulating presentations and 
discussions in the three days to follow.

As the museum field has grown and expanded in the past half-century, we 
have become more and more specialized, learning primarily from those 
whose experiences most closely mirror our own  art with art, science 
with science, etc. This conference will reaffirm and revitalize our 
broader connections across these types of institutions.

MCN will revive the cross-disciplinary vision of 40 years ago and 
explore its promise in the present day, encouraging participation from 
institutions across the museum spectrum. How we are the same? How are we 
different? How have we dealt, successfully and unsuccessfully, with the 
overlapping efforts in documentation, professionalism, and use of 
technology across the museum community? What are we doing right, and 
what do we need to do better?

Today, MCN members are creating everything from databases to podcasts; 
handling digital imaging and preservation; and working with information 
management, IT, and Web 2.0. You name it, our members are doing it, 
talking about it, and helping others achieve results.

We hope to see you in Chicago!