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The Saint Louis County Historical Society used MHCG funds to provide appropriate storage for the nationally significant ethnographic Eastman Johnson collection. Print PDF
A general overview of how to care for, store, and exhibit textiles in your collections. Presented by Melinda Hutchinson at the Area Museums Meeting, Granite Falls. PowerPoint slides (PDF) Print PDF
Cataloging, abandoned property, permanent vs. education collections, and use of policy and planning for grants presented by Melinda Hutchinson at the Northland History Coalition meeting. Presentation Slides Print PDF
Does your organization seem to drift from one focus to the next? A number of Minnesota historical organizations have used the Museum Assessment Program (called MAP) to find their way to a clearer day. Read what your colleagues are saying about MAP: “Clay County Historical Society decided to do a MAP assessment because: we weren’t [...]
Now that many of you have made the move to electronic cataloging (such as PastPerfect), are you still keeping paper records? Of course we keep the signed acquisition forms, but do you maintain paper accession books and a card catalogs of artifacts? At this point, I am continuing to maintain paper records like they started [...]
The Wall Street Journal for Friday November 26, 2010 carried an article by Paul Sonne, “Price Hikes Put U.K. Libraries in a Bind.” When it comes to relevance in an age of near universal expectation that people should be able to have electronic access instantly, historical organizations are often said to face many of the [...]
Phone books call it a day
by David Grabitske
on November 13, 2010
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· in Collections, Digitization, Information Technology, Marketing
The St. Paul Pioneer Press for Friday November 12, 2010, printed an Associated Press article by Michael Felberbaum, “Familiar phone books dying in digital age.” As Internet penetration edges up in all parts of the state (see Electronic Access for Rural Minnesota), people rely on resources that are both more easily searched and perceived to [...]
Role for local history during church closures
by David Grabitske
on October 18, 2010
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· in Collections, Exhibits, Local History Standards
News over the past weekend that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis would restructure it parishes by closing or merging congregations with others brought to mind all of the same challenges of relocating membership, maintenance costs, manpower shortages, and more long faced by rural churches of many denominations. The news and reaction [...]
History Overnight
by David Grabitske
on October 6, 2010
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· in Collections, Education, Fundraising, Interpretation, Local History Standards, Marketing, Nonprofit Issues, Security, Visitation
MinnPost on Saturday October 2, 2010, ran an article on Linden Hills, a two-mansion historic site complex in Little Falls, that discussed the competing concerns when a house museum allows for overnight stays. This blend between historic house museum and bed & breakfast is not surprising considering the economic times. Small nonprofits need to look under [...]
As of today, 166 organizations have enrolled in the American Association for State and Local History StEPs program in its first eleven months of operation. The twelve states with the most enrollments are: 1. Texas (20) 2. Ohio (19) 3. California (8) 4. Pennsylvania (8) 5. Virginia (8) 6. Illinois (7) 7. Kentucky (6) 8. Alaska [...]
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