Category: Museums
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Practical guidance for valuing objects in cultural collections
Facet Publishing have announced the release of Freda Matassa’s new book Valuing Your Collection: A practical guide for museums, libraries and archives Assigning a financial value to a cultural object is always difficult, as there is no right answer. It is one of the many tasks of the curator, whether they work in a gallery, […]
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A Day of Public Humanizing
From Day of PH: To paraphrase that introduction from the old days of Internet: Hi, I’m Emily, and I’m from Twitter. This is a bit of a cop-out, but I thought I’d share my work in PH not through a to-do list but through a place that represents a passive but important aspect of my […]
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2017 Meeting of the National Council on Public History
From the way of improvement leads home: NCPH 2017‘s theme “Meeting in the Middle” had both physical and thematic resonance to this year’s conference. Meeting in Indianapolis at the “crossroads of America,” NCPH pitched this year’s theme in terms of self-reflection. Where is public history going? Finally attending NCPH in person was like a hug. During […]
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Exercise your thinking skills to handle enquiries in any context
27/4/2017 For immediate release Exercise your thinking skills to handle enquiries in any context Facet Publishing have announced the release of the seventh edition of Tim Buckley Owen’s Successful Enquiry Answering Every Time. When people want to satisfy their immediate curiosity they’re much more likely to use a search engine on their […]
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Talking through NCPH 2017: Community Engagement in a Digital World
As a participant in the NCPH 2017 Working Group “Meeting in the Middle: Community Engagement in a Digital World,” ten public history practitioners and I are talking through the successes and struggles of web 2.0 projects. Seeing digital projects as places of shared authority, silence and exclusion, as well as part of the broader definition of […]
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Crowdsourcing Tags
The crowdsourcing project I contributed to was Metadata games (http://www.metadatagames.org/), a self-described free and open source (FOSS) crowdsourcing game platform. Basically, the platform partners with 11 institutions and over 45 of their collections to crowdsource help in collecting metadata in the form of tags. These institutions are libraries, museums, and universities in the […]
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Practical guidance for any librarian learning to deal with data
Facet Publishing have announced the release of The Data Librarian’s Handbook by Robin Rice and John Southall. This new book, written by two data librarians with over 30 years’ experience, unpicks the everyday role of the data librarian and offers practical guidance on how to collect, curate and crunch data for economic, social and scientific […]