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July 27, 2010 17:05
News and Opportunities
Accreditation Support Grants for North East Museum
Funding is now available to support museums in achieving and maintaining MLA Accreditation. This funding is available until 30 September 2010.
Grants of up to £1,000 per organisation are available to museums in the North East, except Renaissance Hub Museums, in one of the following categories:
- Fully-Accredited and undertaking work to maintain Accredited status
- Provisionally-Accredited and working towards Full Accreditation
- Non-Accredited but actively working towards Accreditation following MLA confirmation of eligibility.
For more information, applications forms and guidance visit the Museum Development pages of the Renaissance North East website and download the documents from the Related Documents section.
Calling all Museum and Archive libraries with ‘Hidden’ Collections
Following the publication of Uncovering Hidden Resources, by the Research Information Network, Research Libraries UK is sponsoring a comprehensive survey to deliver:
- a nation wide review of where the UK stands in relation to 'hidden' collections
- moves to ensure that collections are exposed to a much larger audience.
The Hidden Collections survey is for all libraries, large and small, public, academic, in museums and archives, learned societies and historic houses with no records online.
The success of this survey will depend upon the comprehensiveness of the response. Many of you will have collections, large or small, which fall into this category. Please help to ensure that information from your library is included too.
Research Libraries UK has been working with The London Library to produce this survey and the outputs will be made publicly available. The survey can be completed online until 1 September 2010.
If you have any questions please get in touch with Mike Mertens, RLUK, mike.mertens@rluk.ac.uk or Dunia Garcia-Ontiveros, The London Library, dunia.garcia-ontiveros@londonlibrary.co.uk .
Events and Training
Finding and Winning Funding for NEET Group Activities
Tuesday 10 August, London Euston
£250 + Vat per person
Around 10% of young people in England and Wales are NEET – not in employment, education or training. In this workshop, participants will learn about the potential sources of funding for activities to support NEET groups; how to design projects that meet funding criteria; and how to put together a winning tender or funding proposal so they can help young people to reach their potential.
Anyone that wants to find and win funding for NEET group activities will find this workshop to be useful. Individuals may be delivering activities, managing activities or be responsible for finding income and funding for activities.
For more information and to book a place visit www.national-training.com.
Friends patrons volunteers: Making the most of your advocates
Thursday 23 September, Charity Centre, London
This one-day conference examines how best to work with supporters of your museums. Taken together, these different groups comprise a unique and invaluable resource, one which can be useful in many ways over and above the core goals of raising profile and fundraising. The day brings together diverse case studies and explains why and how they have been individually successful and of mutual benefit. It also looks at how to sustain such relationships through difficult times and what to do when things go wrong.
This conference is ideal for those responsible for volunteers, friends groups and patron schemes in museums and galleries and all staff with fundraising and museums development responsibilities.
For more information or to book a place visit here
Bootstrapping the web
Wednesday 22 September, Segedunum Roman Fort, Baths & Museum, 10am - 4pm
Free
This North East Regional Museums Hub workshop will look at ways of building a web presence on a shoestring and is relevant to any staff working with the web to engage audiences with their museums.
The session will discuss:
- social media and how you can use it to increase audience engagement
- the various sources of information to work out “how you are doing”, including Google Analytics, keyword tracking, Twitter searches, etc
- going where your users go – the best tips for working with sites like Facebook, Google, etc
- simple and cheap approaches for improving your online marketing, including Search Engine Optimisation
Please note that spaces are limited. For more information or to book your place, please email john.coburn@twmuseums.org.uk or phone (0191) 2369347.
Jobs and Consultancy
Head of Collections, Durham Cethedral
Closing date - 20 August 2010
Durham Cathedral is looking for an enthusiastic and skilled Head of Collections to take responsibility for the care of their collections and work with others to develop the wider area of the Cathedral’s mission. The Cathedral's historic collections are among the most extensive and finest in the country including priceless early manuscripts and a leading collection of early printed books.
The salary will be negotiated in line with experience and qualifications.
Further information about this vacancy, including an application form, is available from The Chapter Clerk, The Chapter Office, The College, Durham, DH1 3EH (0191) 386 4266, enquiries@durhamcathedral.co.uk
Applications will not be acknowledged without a stamped addressed envelope encolsed.