The College of Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences (FAHSS) at the University of Massachusetts Lowell is home to a variety of unique initiatives and programs that engage PK-12 schools/districts and community colleges, including those offered through The??(TIHC), Jumpstart, and the college’s Early College and Career Pathways with particular emphasis on the?’s educator pathways.

The College seeks a Director to oversee the TIHC and this growing portfolio in its emerging Center for Educational Partnerships. In collaboration with the FAHSS Dean’s Office, TIHC staff, and other school and community-based partners, the Director coordinates Center initiatives that serve PK-14 students & educators and provide a pipeline to UML degree programs. The position offers the unique opportunity to work across a range of educational contexts including the Tsongas Industrial History Center, whereby the Director works in and with Lowell National Historical to offer place-based, hands-on informal, humanities and STEM education programs.

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View the full job description and application process at:

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Thank you,

Ellen

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Please excuse cross postings

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The ? journal is part of Emerald Publishing’s international academic journals. It publishes double-anonymous, peer reviewed articles on assessment and evaluation methods used by museums, libraries, and archives to help describe their value to the communities they serve and to assist in improvement decision-making. Potential submission topics may include but are not limited to:

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• New methods, tools and techniques used to measure and assess museums, libraries, and archives operations (spaces, resources, services, interactions with patrons)
• Frameworks for conducting assessments to describe value, impact, or performance measures.
• Developments in analytics, data visualization, or usability testing.
• Developments in communicating measurement and assessment activities and outcomes.
• Ethical issues in measurement and assessment in museums, libraries, and archives.
• The role measurement and assessment play in effecting organizational and culture change.
• User experience (UX) research.
• Accreditation, Standards and benchmarking for libraries, museums and archives.
• Case studies describing management use of assessment in museums, libraries, and archives.
• Case studies illustrating the use of measurement in service improvement.
• Case studies demonstrating the museum, library, or archive’s contribution to their organization’s goals.
• Case studies where measurement or assessment illuminated social justice issues.
• Case studies about evidence-based advocacy.

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We seek to increase the participation of museum and archive submissions and invite you to submit new articles to our journal that focus on assessment and evaluation. We welcome submissions from all levels of museums, libraries, and archives. Submissions from conference paper and poster presentations are welcome, but require significant addition from the conference presentation (e.g., additional data, reexamination of data for a different perspective). We also welcome assessment and evaluation submissions that are cross-disciplinary.? Please consider publishing with us.

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We are also looking for peer reviewers. If you are interested in becoming a peer reviewer please submit a 100 word bio and your CV.

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If you have questions about submissions or becoming a peer reviewer please contact our editor, Holt Zaugg at holt_zaugg@....

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Holt Zaugg, PhD

Assessment Librarian, BYU Library

HBLL 5720

Provo, UT 84602

holt_zaugg@...

801-422-4178

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Dear Colleagues,

The Spencer Museum of Art is excited to hire a new engagement coordinator for our study and learning centers. ?The Lee Engagement Coordinator for Study and Learning Centers will coordinate activities across the Museum’s , which includes the Ingrid and J.K. Lee and Stephen H. Goddard Study Centers, and Jack & Lavon Brosseau Center for Learning. With the Lee Study Center specifically, the Coordinator is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations as well as developing and facilitating innovative cross-disciplinary engagement opportunities that realize the full potential of this hybrid classroom space. Designed to support the temporary display of three-dimensional objects, textiles, and Asian paintings, the Lee Study Center is a 2000-square-foot object-based learning facility prominently located within the galleries. The Coordinator will also assist with the Museum’s two other flexible teaching and learning spaces, the Goddard Study Center, a more intimate space for collection access, and the Brosseau Center for Learning, a flexible gallery for short-term collection installations. Integral to these duties includes handling a wide variety of museum collection artworks, cataloguing, and other related duties. As the Coordinator becomes familiar with the Museum’s 48,000+ object collection, they may also work with instructors to select artworks for study in line with their curricular goals. Part of the Academic Programs and Public Practice team, the Lee Engagement Coordinator reports to the Curator for Works on Paper and works collaboratively with colleagues across Academic Programs, Public Practice, Curatorial, and Collections.

Full details can be found at

Please note application review begins March 11, 2025.

All best,

Celka

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Celka Straughn, Ph.D. (she/her)
Deputy Director for Public Practice and Curatorial, and Mellon Director of Academic Programs
Spencer Museum of Art
University of Kansas

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+1 785 864 6796

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Hello,

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Are there any Alabama colleagues that have information on Alabama state fine arts insurance policies? Currently, my university lists the art under the general property insurance that any other piece of office furniture or computer is listed.

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I found out when I was curator in Tennessee, where this was also the case, that there was a specific ?TN state fine arts policy and got the insurance properly recorded for the art collection.

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Thank you!

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We did too. Very pleased with Collectors System. Perfect for a small collection. Ours is under 10k objects.

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New Online Connecting to Collections Care Course!

March 5 - March 26, 2025, 1:00-2:00 ET

Risk assessments are one of the most important steps that heritage institutions can take in emergency and business continuity planning. Utilizing existing knowledge of their institution and its collections, participants will evaluate hazards and risks to undertake a risk assessment specific to their institution, enabling them to identify potential natural, traditional, made or non-traditional risks and evaluate their impact.?At the completion of this course, participants will be able to:

• Identify and understand the internal and external hazards likely to affect their institution (building, collections, people)
• Evaluate the likelihood of these hazards affecting their institution
• Rank these risks posed by these hazards through the lens of their institution's key functions and program priorities
• Assess the likelihood and impact of these hazards on their institution's buildings and collections
• Summarize this information and identify risk priorities using a Heritage Risk Assessment Matrix

Registration?Fee: $149

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I have used Collector Systems and now Artwork Archive. Both are easy to use without the steep learning curve. Move from CS to AA for purely financial reasons, but AA is more and more features. Like someone else said it’s so easy that you can have student assistance with little training on it.

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