The HRC thanks Anne Farrow for serving as guest author for the following entry. Anne is the senior content editor for the Encyclopedia of Connecticut History Online, a project of the Connecticut Humanities Council. Formerly a career journalist, Anne co-authored Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery. Marcia Trotta, co-editor for Museums, Libraries and Urban Vitality, is a reading specialist with the Connecticut Humanities Council. When Hartford's leaders pinned - very...
Not out of date, even though it was published in 2003, The Best of the Board Cafe is a very useful, easy to use, practical advice book for board members and staff of non-profits.It is a compilation of tidbits from Board Cafe (check out http://www.compasspoint.org/boardcafe/index.phpt to see Board Cafe articles online), but what might be surprising in this web-based age is how useful it is to have an actual book to flip through (with an...
When summary texts on collections care are just not providing you with enough facts or you need some background information to better understand what's going on with your collection, turn to Guide to Environmental Protection of Collections.Written by Barbara Appelbaum, one of the most respected object conservators in the country, the book's intended audience is anyone who is in a position to make decisions regarding the care and maintenance of collections. Appelbaum provides clear explanations,...
The HRC thanks new Heritage Advisory Committee member Kathleen Craughwell-Varda for writing the following entry. Kathy is a museum curator/consultant with more than twenty-five years experience in the field, and has been an assessor for the Conservation Assessment Program for 16 years. She is currently the Project Manager for Conservation ConneCTion, Connecticut's response to the IMLS "Connecting to Collections" initiative. Conservation Concerns: A Guide for Collectors and Curators has been answering some of the most...
Museums should serve a social purpose as they are products of the society that support them.Robert R. Janes and Gerald T. Conaty used this premise to create Looking Reality in the Eye, a collection of case studies that explores how museums can move beyond education and entertainment to embrace new socially relevant missions.The idea for this book emerged from a panel presentation on museums and social responsibility at the annual meeting of the Canadian Museums...
