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Professional Development Opportunities January 15: The Curators’ Committee is pleased to announce the availability of two fellowships for curators who have never attended an AAM Annual Meeting before and whose major job responsibilities are the care and interpretation of their museums’ collections. These two $1,000 fellowships are intended to help defray the cost of attending the Annual Meeting in Los Angeles, CA May 2010. Please note that fellowship winners will be expected to attend the CurCom business luncheon at the Annual Meeting, where they will be recognized. Application Eligibility: An applicant must never have attended an AAM Annual meeting. An applicant’s major job responsibility (at least 75% of their regular duties) must be the care and interpretation of their institution’s collection To apply, please send: A) A cover letter expressing: How participation in the AAM annual meeting would benefit the applicant and their institution How professional development is important to the applicant’s career and to furthering the mission of their institution A brief description of how collections are significant to their work and An explanation of the museum’s financial need for him/her to receive this fellowship. B) A letter of recommendation from the immediate supervisor, emphasizing his/her contribution to the profession; C)An up to date resume; D)An organizational chart for your museum listing appropriate job titles and hierarchy All materials must be submitted together. Send originals, plus two sets of photocopies to:
Andy Grilz
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Nursery St Due Date: Applications must be postmarked on or before JANUARY 15, 2009. Please note, all applicants who meet the application deadline will receive the conference 'Early Bird' registration rate if they choose to attend, regarldess whether or not they are awarded one of the fellowships. Recipients of this year's fellowships will be chosen on February 5, 2010. Recipients will be notified by phone. For further information contact Andy Grilz at curcomfellowship@gmail.com, or (978) 210-9045.
January 29: February
2009:
Introduction to Reformatting February
2: February 5: February
8-10: February
21-23: June 3-5:
May 23-26:
September
22-25: Online Opportunities >> Upstate History
Alliance >> Americans for the
Arts Webinars >> SOLINET Preservation
Classes >> The Northeast
Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) Preservation 101 - Online
Preservation Course THE
FOLLOWING ARE LINKS TO NEW TOOLS:
Preservation 101
is a free distance-education course on preservation administration
designed especially for practitioners who don't have ready access to
training opportunities. It is also useful as a handy reference for
professionals who receive inquiries from the public: Toolkit
on Surveying Digital Readiness
contains checklists and information to help institutions contract
for an in-depth survey of the preservation needs of their digital
holdings. The tools also support digital preservation consultants
who undertake such surveys: Toolkit on What's Wrong With This Picture contains readings and resources on preservation and digitization of photograph collections, based on a highly successful three-day workshop series: www.nedcc.org/resources/wwwtptools.php Preservation Education Curriculum is an instructor's guide for a semester-long preservation course for graduate programs in librarianship and archives. It includes 13 detailed lesson plans with activities, assignments, and readings, as well as an online image library to help illustrate each lesson. The balance of topics represents consensus among a national advisory committee of preservation experts and educators: www.nedcc.org/curriculum/lesson.introduction.php The Coordinated Statewide Emergency Preparedness (COSTEP) framework is a cooperative planning process for area-wide disasters that brings together state agencies, cultural institutions, emergency management agencies, and first responders: www.nedcc.org/services/disaster.costep.php A new edition of NEDCC'S Preservation Leaflets, updated and expanded, will be available by December 2008. It includes new topics such as disaster planning for digital assets and moving library collections: www.nedcc.org/resources/leaflets.introduction.php (http://northeastdocumentconservationcenter.cmail3.com/l/512659/4r4lqi1t/d ) We welcome your feedback. If you would like to comment on the Center's new preservation tools, contact Julie Martin, jmartin@nedcc.org >> Also check out www.museumclasses.org for online courses. Workshops >>
American Association of Museums'
Professional
Education
>>
American Association for State
and Local History >> The
Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies 2009 >> National Preservation
Institute >> The Society of
American Archivists
Technical Assistance The New York Folklore Society offers short-term technical assistance to individuals, organizations, folklorists, and community scholars who are involved in the documentation and presentation of folklore and folk arts in New York State. For information, Eileen Condon, Outreach Coordinator, 518-346-7008 x2; or visit www.nyfolklore.org. Travel Funds Use NYSCA GO! Grants to register or travel to many of these development opportunities. Contact the Upstate History Alliance for more information, 800-895-1648; info@upstatehistory.org
Online Opportunities Ø Upstate History Alliance Mini Courses. For course descriptions and registration information, www.upstatehistory.org. Ø Americans for the Arts Webinars
Webinar Archive Ø SOLINET Preservation Classes For more information or to register, contact Education Services at 1-800-999-8558, es@solinet.net or visit our website at http://www.solinet.net/. Click on Classes and Events for full descriptions and online registration. These classes are funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access. Ø The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) Preservation 101 - Online Preservation Course
The Northeast Document Conservation Center is pleased to announce a
We welcome your feedback. If you would like to comment on the Ø Also check out www.museumclasses.org for online courses. Workshops Ø American Association of Museums’ Professional Education schedule can be found at www.aam-us.org. Ø American Association for State and Local History. A roster of workshops for 2009 can be found at www.aaslh.org/workshop.htm. Respected professionals in the field develop the series and each workshop is designed with limited class sizes to give you the best professional development experience. Ø National Preservation Institute For the 2009 listing of professional seminars in historic preservation and cultural resource management that are offered by NPI, please visit www.npi.org. Technical Assistance The New York Folklore Society offers short-term technical assistance to individuals, organizations, folklorists, and community scholars who are involved in the documentation and presentation of folklore and folk arts in New York State. For information, Eileen Condon, Outreach Coordinator, 518-346-7008 x2; or visit www.nyfolklore.org. Travel Funds Use NYSCA GO! Grants to register or travel to many of these development opportunities. Contact the Upstate History Alliance for more information, 800-895-1648; info@upstatehistory.org Human Resource Issues & AnswersJob Listings & Career InformationMuseumStuff.com - Topical directory pages on items of interest to those who work in and around museums. One of the directories lists websites for job searching in the museum profession. Museum employment - Excellent site for internship and full-time opportunities in U.S. museums and other cultural resource institutions. Also offers links to museum studies graduate programs and a resume posting service. Museum Resource Board - Museum yellow pages, job, internship, and resume boards, museum education and training information. Aviso Employment Resources Online - Job bank for museum professionals (includes internships, fellowships) and links to career information. (American Association of Museums' job bank) Preserve/Net - Architectural preservation job listings, including internships, and links to other websites such as the Smithsonian internships Global Museum - International museum webzine read in over 90 countries. Features museum news, vacancies. US Museum Directory - Directory of US museum website links. Museophile - Virtual library of international museums webpages. Also has discussion forums.
Smithsonian Institution Office of
Human Resources Job descriptions
- Provides job descriptions for many museum jobs.
Also a great source of information for:
Order online now from our Publications page!
NYC Salary Data Available Compensating
Museum Management and Staff: What is Fair and Reasonable?
Check out the following Web sites for comparative salary and benefit data: http://www.nonprofitstaffing.com/salarysurvey.asp
There are several studies about salaries in NPOs, which cost money to access, but these sites have a theme -- salaries are rising:
A helpful resource for crafting/revising personnel policies is Creating Your Employee Handbook: A Do-it-Yourself Kit for Non-Profits by Leyna Bernstein, published by Jossey-Bass. The book offers 3 versions of each policy: the Creative Approach, primarily for small or informal organizations; the By-the-Book Approach, for mid-sized or traditional agencies; and the Leading-Edge Approach, for large or progressive institutions. It comes with sample policies on disk to make it easy to edit to fit your organization. It also has an index of state-specific policies and includes good suggestions on formatting the handbook. You will still want legal counsel to review your policies, but this book helps get the right philosophies and words down on paper. It costs about $55. Daring to Lead: Nonprofit Executive Directors and Their Work Experience is a report published by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services (August 2001) that examines professional experience, compensation, tenure trends, and executive training and support. The data is based on the responses of more than 1,000 executive directors from around the country. Among the key findings: * Women substantially outnumber men in nonprofit executive director positions -- in most regions they make up 60% or more of the population; men disproportionately lead large agencies. * Women executives are paid less than their male counterparts for the same jobs, with the differential being especially acute among large agencies. * Despite enjoying their work and reporting to be very skilled at it, fewer than half of current executives plan to take on another executive director role. * The most significant challenges are high stress, long hours, anxiety about agency finances, fundraising, and managing people. * Boards have an impact on executive tenure and satisfaction and on agency success. Help with board development was requested by 23% of the respondents. This 46-page report is available at: www.compasspoint.org/research/Daring.pdf Also worth checking into is Professional Development in the 21st Century: A Survey of ASTC CEOs (1999). Sponsored by the Association of Science-Technology Centers, the survey looks at the extent and use of professional development, from conferences to journal subscriptions; their funding and impact. Access the survey at www.astc.org.
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