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Session Proposal: Web Content Management Systems and Museum Libraries

In this session, let’s explore web content management systems in meeting the needs of different types of museum libraries. For example, if a museum is using a content management system to archive their photographic collections, what are some criteria we … Continue reading

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Session Proposal: Disruption in the Field

What are museums, libraries, and archives hired to do? Does this matter, and how does it differ from what they offer? I’ve recently been learning about Clayton Christensen’s work on disruption theory and it’s provoked some interesting questions about what … Continue reading

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Session Proposal: Cameras in the Gallery

THATCamp notes taken during this Session can be found at ow.ly/b1czR Session Proposal Yielding to the omnipresent camera phone, most museums have had to change their no-photography policy (although still enforced in special exhibitions). Museums even encourage taking photos, featuring them … Continue reading

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