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            Join us as we explore new models for collaboration in  museums!

  "Building Networks/Sharing Resources: models for innovation."

ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY MUSEUMS AND GALLERIES
                                     ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2004
                                                  May 8th, 2004
                                          New Orleans, Louisiana

                          Conference Brochure and Registration form:
                            http://www.acumg.org/conference04.html


Join Robert Martin, Director of IMLS and a diversity of practitioners
from across the country as we explore
new models for successful museum collaboration. Join this expert panel
as they share their own work in
developing successful educational, exhibit & collections sharing,
community, evaluation research, political,
                                          spiritual, and e-collaborations.


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               "Building Networks/Sharing Resources:
                            models for innovation."

                         PRELIMINARY CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
                                            Saturday, May 8th

                                                Hosted by
                                     The Newcomb Art Gallery
                              Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

8:00 a.m.     Get on Bus at Convention Center Hall H loading area
8:15 a.m.     Registration and Continental Breakfast at the Newcomb Art
Gallery
8:45 a.m.     Welcoming presentations
                   Lisa Hanover     President, ACUMG
                   Scott Cowen     President, Tulane University
                   Erik Neil            Director, The Newcomb Art Gallery
                   Stefan Sommer  Vice President, ACUMG
9:00 a.m.     From Collaboration to Convergence: Building Value for
Communities of Learners
                       Robert Martin - Director, Institute of Museum and
Library Services
9:40 a.m.     Unicorn at the Table: Collaboration as Learning
                       Kristine Morrissey - Chair, Museum Studies,
Michigan State University
10:20 a.m.    Break
10:40 a.m.    E-collaboration: Building Communities without Walls
                        Angela Spinazzè - Consultant and Independent
Researcher, ATSPIN Consulting, Chicago, IL
11:20 a.m.    Community Curation: Objects to Flavor a Sense of Place
                        Wanda Chin - Director of Exhibition and Design,
University of Alaska Museum and President, Western Museums Association

12:00 p.m.    Lunch by "Tasteful Events"

Session I
  1:15 p.m.    Ramesses I - Collaborating on the Search for the Lost Pharaoh
                         Bonnie Speed - Director, Michael C. Carlos
Museum, Emory University
  2:00 p.m.    The University as MICROCOSM: the material economy of
knowledge
                         Mark Meadow - Professor, History of Art &
Architecture, UC Santa Barbara and Research Fellow, Getty Research Institute
  2:45 p.m.    Alice's Wonderland: A Museum-University Research
Collaboration
                         Jenni Martin - Director of Education,
Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose

Session II
  1:15 p.m.    Why Travel an Exhibit? - Thoughts on the Benefits (and
Challenges)
                         Dan Mills - Director, Samek Art Gallery,
Bucknell University
  2:00 p.m.    Seven Secrets to Successful Exhibition Sharing
                         Jean Allman Gilmore - Registrar, Brandywine
Museum and co-author, "On the Road Again: Developing & Managing
Traveling Exhibitions"
  2:45 p.m.    A Case for Being "AWAKE": Buddhism, Collaboration, &
Museum Practice
                         Marla Berns - Director, UCLA Fowler Museum of
Cultural History
  3:30 p.m.    Break
  3:45 p.m.    Working Together to Get Ahead - a Panel and Community
Discussion: Jean Allman Gilmore, Marla Berns, Wanda Chin,
                         Jenni Martin, Robert Martin, Dan Mills,
Kristine Morrissey, Bruce Robertson, Bonnie Speed, and Angela Spinazzè.

  4:30 p.m.    Reception at the Newcomb Art Gallery
  6:00 p.m.    Buses return to Conference Center - Farewell 'till next
year!

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     Please direct any questions to:

     Stefan Sommer, Conference Chair


Dr. Stefan Sommer, Vice President
Association of College and University Museums and Galleries <www.acumg.org>

Director of Education
Merriam Powell Center for Environmental Research <http://www.mpcer.nau.edu>

Associate Curator
Colorado Plateau Museum of Arthropod Biodiversity <http://bugs.bio.nau.edu>

Department of Biological Sciences <http://www3.nau.edu/biology>
Northern Arizona University Campus Box 5640
Flagstaff, AZ  86001

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