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Arizona Convocation 2001

March 4-5, 2001

Prescott, Arizona

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Help build a community of Arizonans who collect, manage, and protect the objects, documents, maps, photographs, and other materials that form the state's cultural legacy. Join your colleagues from libraries, archives, museums, and local history societies from around the state to . . .

If you work with or are responsible for collections of Arizoniana, consider attending the Arizona Convocations. You'll have a chance to meet with your fellow registrars, librarians, catalogers, archivists, managers, museum professionals, preservationists, curators, genealogists, historians, cartographers, records managers, and others. Nationally recognized speakers will join us to consider . . .

The Convocation offers an opportunity for us to step back from our daily tasks to reflect and take stock of what we're doing and how we're doing it.

Featured Speakers

Peter Bishop
You don't need a crystal ball to plan for change and prepare for the future you want. Bishop, a professional futurist, helps people recognize opportunities before they pass by, and to recognize threats before they become crises. Although the future is complex and uncertain, thinking about a variety of possible futures enables people to avoid surprises and plan for contingencies.

Peter Bishop is a professor in the Studies for the Future graduate program at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.
Kathi Dengler and Richard Battle
Libraries, archives, and museums are nothing without the public they serve. Creating a memorable experience for your guests, making the people you serve your primary focus, can alter organizational culture and transform the environment in which you work. Dengler and Battle share their stories and the lessons learned during Strong Museum's transformation from a traditional history museum with an annual attendance of 145,000 to a vital community resource with attendance of more than 325,000.

Kathi Dengler is Vice President for Human Resources and Employee Development, and Richard Battle is Vice President for Guest Services at the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York.



Schedule

Sunday Evening, March 4
  4:00 pm Registration opens
  6:30 pm Dinner
Monday, March 5
  8:00 am Continental breakfast
  9:00 am Plenary sessions
  11:30 am Lunch
  1:00 pm Breakout Sessions
  • Different Traditions, Different Perspectives: Libraries, Archives, and Museums
  • Why Do We Collect What We Collect? Mission and Scope of Collections
  • Becoming a Vital Part of Your Community
  • Borrowing Tools: Learning from other Disciplines
  • Collective Description: Gaining control over large quantities of materials.
  • Collecting without Competing: Many Hands Lighten the Load
  • Should You Collect It? Assessing the Intellectual Value of Potential Acquisitions
  • New Audiences, Old Audiences: Effective Outreach Programs
  • The New Economy: Connecting with the Vitality of Your Community
  4:30 pm Conclusion

 

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