The HRC thanks Karin Peterson, Museum Director for the Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism, for serving as guest author for the following entry. Karin is responsible for the oversight of four state museums: Henry Whitfield State Museum in Guilford; Old New Gate Prison & Copper Mine in East Granby, Prudence Crandall Museum in Canterbury and the Sloane-Stanley Museum in Kent. Interpreting Historic House Museums edited by Jessica Foy Donnelly is a compendium of...
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The HRC thanks Tammi Flynn, Director of Marketing for the Florence Griswold Museum, in Old Lyme, CT, for serving as guest author for the following entry.The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change (2010) made we wish I had an iPad. It offered so many examples, resources, and references that I wanted to link to them while I was reading. Nevertheless I did go back and look up many of my underlined...
Truth in advertising: I like workbooks. There, I've said it. I like the comfort of step-by-step, self-paced guidance, and I really like setting my historical society's priorities based on accepted "best practices" devised by experts in my field. After all, who wants to reinvent the wheel?If you find yourself in a leadership position - paid or volunteer - in a museum or historical society that you know needs practical guidance, the American Association for...
The HRC thanks Elizabeth Pratt Fox for serving as guest author for the following entry. Betsy is a museum and historic site consultant. She has assisted clients with institutional assessments and planning, collection assessments, and exhibition planning and implementation. Prior to forming her own consulting company in 1997, she was the curator at the Connecticut Historical Society. She serves on the Board of the Connecticut League of History Organizations, on the Cheshire Historic District Commission...
The HRC thanks Julie Frey for serving as guest author for the following entry. Julie has been a museum curator for eight years. She is currently the Curator of Collections at the Litchfield Historical Society in Litchfield, CT. Previously she was Curator of the Rye Historical Society in Rye, NY. Most recently she curated the exhibition "Goods for Sale! Cash, Credit & Trade in Litchfield, 1790-1850" which is open until November 2010 at the Litchfield...
