June 2013
43 posts
The current ASTC Exhibit Cheapbooks are three separate collections of inexpensive exhibit ideas contributed from colleagues around the world. They are a must for any exhibit developer’s reference shelf, and have continued to be popular “best sellers” for ASTC Publications over the years.
The Local Arts Agency Salaries 2013 research report benchmarks the vast and varied compensation practices of the local arts field in America today. As the previous iteration of this report did when it was published in 2001, the 2013 report will assist LAA executives and employees in evaluating staffing and salary levels, setting pay rates, determining incremental compensation adjustments, and better understanding the varied benefit options and structures currently at play in the field…
Click the link for more information and the report.
Digital Engagement Framework needs your input on digital engagement in cultural institutions
Objects that are physically separated because of their distribution among museum collections all over the Eurasian continent are brought together in the virtual world. To fulfil its aims the VCM deploys the efforts of museum specialists who select Masterpieces from their own collections and explain their significance to a worldwide audience. - See more at: http://asemus.museum/news/virtual-collection-of-asian-masterpieces-website/#sthash.4F6v6NRv.dpuf
Helen Keller once said, “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” Those who maintain the power structures of the academy, and particularly the humanities, might reply that of course Helen Keller would say such a thing. If they didn’t say it out loud, they’d at least imply that collaboration is helpful only to those whose infirmities and weaknesses make it impossible for them to stand on their own—those people really need help. But not so in the humanities! Where we all lift our own weight, and all of us speak in our own, strong voices.
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Academic life in the humanities still bears the form, if not the detail and substance, of the monastic life that shaped the modern university. Our offices and library cubicles are like cells, places to which we retreat so that we can “read, read, read, work, pray, and read again,” as the philosopher Charles Peirce put it back in 1877, quoting an old chemist’s maxim. Our graduate-school training habituates us in burying ourselves for long hours in solitary seeking, emerging only for the austere hours of communal liturgy, where most of us sit in silence while one chosen from among us stands and reads from the holy text. The main difference between us and the medieval monastics is that they, when they went into solitude, believed they were not alone. We moderns decidedly are.
” —After philosopher Judith Butler’s fantastic commencement address on the importance of the humanities, a lament on the crisis of collaboration and cross-disciplinary communication in the humanities from The Chronicle of Higher Education.
It seems like the humanities can learn from science where, it has been memorably noted, “successful scientists have often been people with wide interests.”
(via explore-blog)
