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Museum Sanctity in a Digital Age
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Friday, 27 January 2012I must declare that I make this blog post with some trepidation. I know that this topic is not on-trend with the popular/populist movement in museums. That said, I am not an old stodger, who is completely lacking in tech skills -- the opposite, in fact. My career depends on digital technologies: the creation and maintenance of museum databases for collections, exhibitions and digital assets; I manage several web sites and multiple Twitter accounts. Technophobe, I am not. In this age of mobile technology it has become increasingly difficult to find a space where you can remember life before th...
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Departmental Re-organisation
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Thursday, 19 January 2012After years under consideration, we have finally re-organized he Registration Department. It took the loss of 1/3 the staff, but we are there. I will be the Registrar responsible for Museum Collection...
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Hidden Exhibition Secrets Revealed
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Sunday, 20 November 2011There is so much work that happens behind-the-scenes for any exhibition. Some of that work is ultimately visible to the visitors such as the design, the mounts, cases, graphics and labels but the work...
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Twitter Identity Crisis
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Tuesday, 25 October 2011I have been playing with Twitter for almost three years now. It is one of those social media that I felt I should be using, but I found it a bit difficult to figure out what to Tweet. I simply tweeted...
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Toronto Museums Face Closure
Created by Gail Lord Created Wednesday, 21 September 2011Dear Friends and Colleagues: This week, the City of Toronto’s Executive Committee approved a report from the City Manager to close “museums with the least attendance, and revenues compared to costs.”...
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Blog About Blogging
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Wednesday, 14 September 2011Today I am inspired to write a blog about why I don't write blogs. The truth is, I am awaiting some sort of divine inspiration. The result is I don't write anything. One of my colleagues sug...
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Canadian Registrars' Group
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Wednesday, 10 August 2011Canadian-Registrars.ca is a mailing list that aims to enhance the professional development of Canadian Registrars and collections professionals through the sharing of ideas and expertise with colleagu...
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Standards
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Friday, 11 March 2011Standards: Introduction to Controlled Vocabulary (Getty)
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Request for Information (RFI)
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Wednesday, 02 March 2011The first phase of our process is the creation of a Request for Information or more commonly an RFI. Ine useful web site I found was thishttp://www.negotiations.com/articles/procurement-terms/ which ...
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A History of the World
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Tuesday, 25 January 2011A History of the World in 100 Artefacts Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, narrates 100 programmes that retell humanity's history through the objects we have made. The series spans ...
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Collections Management Systems
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Thursday, 20 January 2011Selecting a Collections management software system is a difficult task. Every museum has different requirements, but at the core, there are many commonalaties. Planning your new database system http...
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Privacy: A Social Norm?
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Friday, 14 January 2011Privacy is no longer a social norm, according to the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg commenting on the rise of social networking. “Many young people are choosing to open their lives in ways thei...
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What is Collections Management?
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Thursday, 29 October 2009Collections management doesn't sounds like a nebulous concept, but ask a group of museum professionals for a definition and you soon realise it isn't as obvious as it seems. Collections Man...
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Teaching versus Experience
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Tuesday, 27 October 2009An upcoming conference at the University of Toronto's Museum Studies programme: Taking Stock: Museum Studies and Museum Practices in Canada makes me think about the nature of teaching versus actu...
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Building an Information Infrastructure
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Monday, 26 October 2009Many museums and cultural institutions have moved into the "digital age" in the name of progress but in many cases it was in name only. Our digital records are still largely guided by the ol...
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New Venture: Professor Allen
Created by Stephanie Allen Created Thursday, 16 July 2009This fall I will be co-teaching a course in Collections Management at Ryerson University (PP8107 - Digital Applications for Collection Management ).
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