Philadelphia arts' shifting financial picture

http://m.philly.com/phillycom/pm_106351/contentdetail.htm?contentguid=N02QEUCa

History with Boundaries: How Donors Shape Museum Exhibits

Hey everyone--if you have the time, check out this short essay before Wednesday: 

http://www.oah.org/pubs/nl/2008aug/daniel.html

Housekeeping

Now that the semester is underway, I will begin using the course blog to share notices, updates, and misc. correspondence about our various projects.  If you received notice that I posted this note, then you've already "subscribed" to our blog.  Please remind your classmates to do the same so that everyone is on the same page.  And, also, be sure to subscribe to each other's individual blogs so you all receive prompts to view reading posts (which I encourage you to do before coming to class).

See you all Wednesday for a discussion about the public trust!

Welcome to Managing History!

Welcome to the course website for Managing History. Here you'll find everything you need to navigate the semester. Be sure to subscribe to posts from this site as I'll use it as a primary vehicle for course announcements and other assorted stuff you'll need to be aware of. Note too that this site evolves over time with each iteration of Managing History. Browse around to find out who your predecessors were and what they've been up to.

Our theme for this semester concerns local public history controversies including dust-ups at the Philadelphia History Museum, The Barnes Foundation, the Pennhurst State School and Hospital, the USS Olympia, and the President's House. Lots of fascinating issues to wrangle with and right in our own backyard.

Looking forward to a great semester!

Hi everyone! I just wanted to share this with everyone, http://www.philaplace.org/ I actually did some work with HSP this past summer as my internship. I haven't had the chance to play around with the site but I think it's a great resource to have for Philadelphia.

I thought this post might be of interest in light of our discussion about digital media.  An additional way that digital technology affects public historians, or at least places where we work, is the ability for consumers to comment in a public forum.  A friend of mine had a negative experience at one museum and a positive one at another.  She shared her experience directly with museum staff while there.  She also blogged about it.  Her thoughts can be found here.  I also found interesting her reaction to rules museums set.

~ Lyndsey

The Task of the Curator:
Translation, Intervention and Innovation in Exhibitionary Practice

Location: California

Deadline: 2010-02-05

Description: CALL FOR PAPERS ACADEMIC CONFERENCE: FRIDAY, MAY 14
2010 THE TASK OF THE CURATOR: TRANSLATION, INTERVENTION, AND
INNOVATION IN EXHIBITIONARY PRACTICE Museum and Curatorial
Studies (MACS) at UC-Santa Cruz brings together museum
professionals and scholars from a variety of disciplines to
study the poe ...

Contact: macs@ucsc.edu

URL: macs.ucsc.edu/conferences.html

Announcement ID: 171961

http://www.h-net.org/announce/show.cgi?ID=171961

To go digital, or not to go digital--why is it still a question?

Here's a great starting point for discussions about making collections available online:

http://usingdata.typepad.com/usingdata/2009/03/web.html