1 hr
Negotiating collaboration: Four case studies from grant-funded GLAM projects MCN 2019 sessions recordings
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- Education
Thursday, November 7, 2019
As museum, library, and digital practitioners, we work regularly with many diverse communities. The desire to best serve curators, researchers, students, faculty, and staff is built into the core mission of cultural heritage institutions. On cross-functional and cross-institutional projects, we need internal collaboration to bring our external offerings to the next level. On collaborative digital projects, we not only have to mediate how we interface with each other, often across disciplinary boundaries, but also how technological systems and infrastructure interface as well. So how do we negotiate between the often competing needs of our communities and make decisions that move our work forward? In this panel, participants from five institutions with different perspectives, circumstances, and processes address how they have approached negotiating among interfaces and communities. All of the institutions have embarked on projects supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to encourage collaboration between libraries and museums and to make arts and cultural heritage resources more widely discoverable and available. Our aim in this panel is not to present “one-size-fits-all” solutions but to reflect the range of communities, decision-making processes, institutions, and choices available to museums and libraries embarking on collaborative digital projects.
Session Type60-Minute Session (Professional Forum or Hands-on Demonstration)
TrackStrategy
Chatham House RuleNo
Key Outcomes
After attending this session, participants will gain a better understanding of how to approach collaborative decision-making and how to structure and sustain a grant-funded project. Participants will be able to:
-Identify important collaborative considerations for applying or thinking about applying for a Mellon grant
-Use these case studies as examples for how to make choices that reflect their missions, visions, and commitments
-Understand diverse internal institutional and external community perspectives
Speakers
Session Leader : Juliet Vinegra, Project Manager, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Co-Presenter : Abigail Shelton, Outreach Specialist, Mellon Museum Library Collaboration Grant, Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame
Co-Presenter : Jessica Breiman, Librarian, University of Utah
Co-Presenter : Adrienne Figus, Project Manager, Mellon Museum and Library Collaboration Grant, Smith College
Co-Presenter : Karina Wratschko, Digital Initiatives Librarian; NDSR Art Program Manager, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Thursday, November 7, 2019
As museum, library, and digital practitioners, we work regularly with many diverse communities. The desire to best serve curators, researchers, students, faculty, and staff is built into the core mission of cultural heritage institutions. On cross-functional and cross-institutional projects, we need internal collaboration to bring our external offerings to the next level. On collaborative digital projects, we not only have to mediate how we interface with each other, often across disciplinary boundaries, but also how technological systems and infrastructure interface as well. So how do we negotiate between the often competing needs of our communities and make decisions that move our work forward? In this panel, participants from five institutions with different perspectives, circumstances, and processes address how they have approached negotiating among interfaces and communities. All of the institutions have embarked on projects supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to encourage collaboration between libraries and museums and to make arts and cultural heritage resources more widely discoverable and available. Our aim in this panel is not to present “one-size-fits-all” solutions but to reflect the range of communities, decision-making processes, institutions, and choices available to museums and libraries embarking on collaborative digital projects.
Session Type60-Minute Session (Professional Forum or Hands-on Demonstration)
TrackStrategy
Chatham House RuleNo
Key Outcomes
After attending this session, participants will gain a better understanding of how to approach collaborative decision-making and how to structure and sustain a grant-funded project. Participants will be able to:
-Identify important collaborative considerations for applying or thinking about applying for a Mellon grant
-Use these case studies as examples for how to make choices that reflect their missions, visions, and commitments
-Understand diverse internal institutional and external community perspectives
Speakers
Session Leader : Juliet Vinegra, Project Manager, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Co-Presenter : Abigail Shelton, Outreach Specialist, Mellon Museum Library Collaboration Grant, Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame
Co-Presenter : Jessica Breiman, Librarian, University of Utah
Co-Presenter : Adrienne Figus, Project Manager, Mellon Museum and Library Collaboration Grant, Smith College
Co-Presenter : Karina Wratschko, Digital Initiatives Librarian; NDSR Art Program Manager, Philadelphia Museum of Art
1 hr