The HRC thanks Sarah Griswold for serving as guest author for the following entry. Sarah has been working in the museum field for nearly 20 years as a curator and director. She is currently an independent consultant and is working at the Gunn Memorial Museum in Washington as curatorial assistant. Sarah is part of the Connecticut Peer Advisor Network through the Connecticut Commission of Culture and Tourism and is a consulting principal for Ericson Business...
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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. She is currently at work on a new book about slavery and memory. The glossy marble floors and columns of America's august history museums are...
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. She is currently at work on a new book about slavery and memory. What do we talk about when we talk about history?When university...
Not out of date, even though it was published in 2003, The Best of the Board Cafe is a very useful, easy to use, practical advice book for board members and staff of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,...
