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Guest Post: Collections Access - Open the Door Wider

Museum 2.0

North Carolina Museum of History 1988.39.4 In this courageous guest post, Adrienne Berney, a Collections Care Trainer who works primarily with history museums, gives us an insider’s guide to these issues. Experts advise museums against accepting restricted donations, and they are rare in history museums.

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Museum Photo Policies Should Be as Open as Possible

Museum 2.0

While doing research, I found myself digging back into old arguments on museum listservs about photo policies and I want to add my two (very opinionated) cents on this. Conservation: Objects may be damaged by flash photography. Would staff members who hate photography be comparably disturbed by visitors sketching in the galleries?

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photography students use Flickr to post, organize, share, and critique their colleagues?????? Resource Collection off a listserv: [link]. Collaborative writing off a listserv: [link]. Versioning by saving a history of changes (who and when) that can be viewed and compared. What does this mean in an educational context ?

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