The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) seeks a knowledgeable
and energetic Preservation Specialist to support its consulting,
education, and outreach programs.

Working closely with NEDCC's staff, the Preservation Specialist prepares
and facilitates workshops, webinars, lectures, coursework, and
conference presentations; edits or authors reference resources and
publications; responds to technical and disaster inquiries; coordinates
and conducts preservation needs assessments; authors comprehensive
assessment reports that provide specific recommendations based on
findings and best-practices; participates in department- and Center-wide
projects and initiatives; and represents NEDCC at local, regional, and
national professional meetings and conferences.

As NEDCC continues to expand its consulting, education, and outreach
services, the ideal candidate for this position will be able to develop
and maintain both physical and digital preservation knowledge and
skills.

FOR COMPLETE INFORMATION AND TO APPLY:
http://www.nedcc.org/about/news.2013preservationjob.php

Penobscot Marine Museum Education Director

Due to a retirement, the Penobscot Marine Museum is seeking a Director of Education with proven experience in identifying educational opportunities, creating and implementing programs and curriculum that advance the Museum’s mission.

PMM is dedicated to preserving, interpreting and celebrating the maritime culture of the Penobscot Bay Region and beyond through collections, education and community engagement. The Museum houses superb collections of marine art, historic boats, scrimshaw, ship models and 19^th export items as well as over 100,000 historic photographs. The Museum’s education programs, both on and off site, have a long history of excellence and innovation. PMM’s Maritime History and Literacy Curriculum, for example, blends maritime history and literacy skill practice in a detailed and comprehensive program that is unique in the museum education field.

Position Description and Responsibilities include:

·         Work with colleagues (paid and volunteer) in the planning, development, implementation, coordination and evaluation of robust education programs and experiences that meet the diverse needs of PMM audiences, including professional development for teachers, school outreach and on-site programming for adults as well as children.

·         Understand, identify and appropriately respond to a diverse audience that includes students, families, and other life-long learners.

·         Work with PMM staff to coordinate existing programs and develop new programs that will fully leverage PMM’s historical, environmental and institutional resources.

·         Develop, implement and evaluate outreach strategies to promote PMM’s educational visitation and programs.

·         Manage and schedule interpretive programs to deliver and promote experiences, such as Museum tours, school programs and special events to Museum visitors

·         Facilitate school participation in the museum experience.

·         Together with Board members, staff, and individually, promote PMM’s programs to current and prospective donors to generate funding for exponential growth.

·         Working with appropriate staff, identify granting opportunities within the guidelines of the long range plan, yearly exhibits and departmental needs and participate in the preparation of the grant applications and reporting.

·         Working with appropriate staff, develop and maintain an annual budget for the education department.

·         Regularly evaluate and review the results of education programming with the executive director and appropriate Board committees.

Qualifications

Qualified applicants must have, at a minimum, a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited four year college in social sciences, history, education or a related field as well as at least 5 years’ experience working in a museum environment or related institution or in the field of education. Preferred applicants should possess a creative and innovative approach to PMM’s programmatic and educational development. In addition, the successful candidate must have:

• Demonstrated ability to make scholarly information accessible to various audiences, including the general public, families, students and educators.
• Demonstrated ability to approach projects in an analytical, well-organized manner and be able to meet deadlines while working on several concurrent projects.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise and manage staff and resources to teach, train and/or interpret information and communicate effectively with a wide variety of audiences
• Commitment to working as part of a collaborative team.

• Ability to work effectively and creatively using computers and online technology.
• Strong communication skills, both written and oral to include public speaking/presentation skills.
• Relevant experience in budget and resource management.

To apply for this position, please submit a cover letter, resume, and a list of three

professional references to Education Director Search, Penobscot Marine Museum, 5 Church Street, PO Box 498, Searsport, ME  04974 or email dhavey@pmm-maine.org.  For more information on the Museum, please visit our website at www.penobscotmarinemuseum.org

Gallery Manager

Maine Media Workshops + College

Company:	Maine Media Workshops + College
Location:	Portland, Maine & Rockport, Maine
Type:	Full-Time

Job Description

Maine Media Workshops + College is seeking to hire a GALLERY MANAGER to be responsible for two galleries: one at 132 Washington Avenue in Portland (“Portland Gallery”), and one at Central Street, Rockport, Maine (“MMWC Gallery"). The mission of the MMWC Gallery is to showcase photographic and multi-media work of students, alumni, and faculty, as well as innovative media artists whose work would be educational to our community and to our students. The mission of the Portland Gallery is to show high quality photography and works on paper of artists in Maine or with a connection to Maine.

The person hired for this position will curate, and/or coordinate with internal and/or guest curators, and manage approximately 20 gallery exhibitions per year and related events. The Gallery Manager will ensure both galleries maintain planned open hours, recruiting and coordinating volunteers and interns as needed. Working with curators and guest curators, the Gallery Manager will be responsible for marketing, communications and public relations; hanging shows, merchandising and displays; planning and hosting gallery events, recordkeeping, cash management and all business functions. The person in this position will be located in Portland approximately 3 days/week and in Rockport 2 days/week, travelling between these locations.
The ideal candidate will have excellent communication skills and the ability to market photography and other artwork effectively through, including but not limited to the internet and appropriate social media outlets; ideally he/she will have previous management and gallery experience; he/she is passionate about photography and knowledgeable about the medium’s history and current trends.

How To Apply

Apply online via our website: http://www.mainemedia.edu/workshops/about/employment or send resume and letter expressing interest and relevant experience to Jobs@mainemedia.edu. Applications will be reviewed beginning January 15, 2013.

Museum Assistant

            The Margaret Chase Smith Library, a congressional research library located in Skowhegan, Maine, and dedicated to promoting Senator Smith’s legacy of service, civics, civility, and aspirations, seeks a full-time museum assistant.  The successful candidate will be responsible for visitor services, tour guiding, and museum exhibits.  The assistant will also expand the social media reach of the museum by using the archival collection to provide content on the Internet.

            Requirements:  Bachelor’s degree; Master’s with specialty in twentieth-century US History preferred; several years of museum experience; working knowledge of Microsoft Office and Outlook, PastPerfect database, and social media platforms.  For a full list of responsibilities and qualifications, please see jobs.umaine.edu.

            Salary range: $26,570 - 27,500 dependent upon skills, plus full University benefits.  This position is contingent on outside funding.

            Please send letter of interest, résumé, writing sample, and names and numbers of three references to: Job Search, c/o Lynnette G. King, Administrator, Margaret Chase Smith Library, 56 Norridgewock Avenue, Skowhegan, ME, 04976.  Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

            On January 1, 2011, UMaine became a tobacco-free campus. Information regarding UMaine’s tobacco-free policy is online at http://umaine.edu/tobaccofree/.

The University of Maine is an

Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer.

Spotlight Award
Purpose and Criteria for Selection:

Established in 2005, this award recognizes the contributions of individuals who work for the good of the archives profession and of archival collections, and whose work would not typically receive public recognition. The nominee(s) should have achieved distinction in one or more of the following ways:

* Participating in special projects.
* Exhibiting tireless committee or advocacy work.
* Responding effectively to an unforeseen or pressing need or emergency.
* Contributing innovative or creative ideas to the profession.
* Performing extraordinary volunteerism.
* Quietly but effectively promoting the profession.

Eligibility:

Awarded to an individual archivist or a group of up to five archivists who have collaborated on a project. Preference is given to archivists working in smaller repositories, especially those without institutional support for professional activities.

Nomination Requirements: A completed nomination form, downloadable at http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Spotlight-Award-Form.rtf.

Sponsor and Funding: The Society of American Archivists Foundation.

Prize: A certificate and complimentary registration (for up to five individuals) to the SAA Annual Meeting occurring in the year in which the award is presented.

Submission Deadline and Nomination Form: Deadline: February 28, 2013. Please complete the nomination form (http://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/Spotlight-Award-Form.rtf) and email it along with any applicable supporting documentation to awards@archivists.org with the subject line “Spotlight Award.” Attachments should not exceed 5MB.

Alternately, nominations may be mailed. Materials must be postmarked by February 28, 2013, and should be sent to:

Spotlight Award Committee

Society of American Archivists

17 North State Street, Suite 1425

Chicago, IL 60602-4061

Questions should be directed to me as chair of the Spotlight Award Subcommittee, tzachar@lsu.edu or 225-578-6546.

Please visit http://www2.archivists.org/recognition for a list and explanation of all of the awards offered by SAA. The above information and past awardees is available online, (http://www2.archivists.org/governance/handbook/section12-spotlight).  

Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland Seeks Events & Volunteer Manager

Company:	Farnsworth Art Museum
Location:	Rockland, ME
Type:	Full-Time
Start Date:	immediately

Job Description

The Museum is seeking an Events and Volunteer Manager to provide leadership, professional expertise, and direction for all museum events, facilities rentals, and the museum volunteer program.

Responsibilities:
Manages all museum events including developing timelines, budgets, specifications, and logistics. Develops and aggressively markets a facilities use program. Administers the volunteer program and serves as point of contact for all groups that rent the museum facilities.

Qualifications:
Must have excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to handle and prioritize multiple tasks. A minimum of five years project management experience necessary, with the ability to plan and produce events and meetings from concept to completion. Ability to lift 40 lbs. Strong computer skills including MS Office, Excel, and exposure to programs like Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge important. Candidate must be able to work flexible hours including occasional nights and weekends. B.A. preferred.

How To Apply

Interested candidates should forward cover letter, resume and salary requirements to: employment@farnsworthmuseum.org

Invitation to Submit Papers

Curator: The Museum Journal

Special Issue on Museums and People with Disabilities

In areas as varied as transportation, housing, food service, employment, and cultural institutions, our interactions with people with disabilities are changing in fundamental ways. These changes appear to be driven in part by the much-discussed proliferation and democratization of technology and in part by the less obvious shifts in the sensibilities and assumptions of people at the start of the twenty-first century society.

How are museums and other cultural institutions adapting to-and helping shape-these cultural changes? The editors of Curator: The Museum Journal invite scholars and professionals within and outside of the museum community to submit articles and think-pieces that situate the theory and practice of informal settings in contemporary cultural modes. We seek fresh examples, research findings, and commentary that will illuminate what engagement with people with disabilities means today, how museums and other cultural organizations and programs are fostering a blurring of the lines between engagement with people with and without disabilities, and where current trends may take us.

We're particularly interested in papers that explore the broad landscape of engagement and communication. While a robust and rigorous foundation for engagement and equality has been established in the last decade or so, a fresh look is called for that takes direct account of the contemporary characteristics of communication and participation. We invite holistic, appropriately skeptical appraisals of the ways engagement with people with disabilities may be embedded in a broader set of experiences and outcomes intended by museums and other cultural settings.

We are also interested in book, media, and digital reviews relevant to these questions.

Inquiries and submissions should be sent to guest editors Christine Reich (creich@mos.org<mailto:creich@mos.org>) and Anna Lindgren-Streicher (alstreicher@mos.org<mailto:alstreicher@mos.org>), with copies of Zahava Doering, Editor at editor@curatorjournal.org<mailto:editor@curatorjournal.org>. Submissions should follow Curator's standard guidelines, which can be found at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)2151-6952/homepage/ForAuthors.html.

Articles that do not require review will be due on February 15th, 2013. Research articles that will require review will be due on February 1st, 2013.

The state of Maine holds a special place in the history of the American
Civil War. To recognize and celebrate the role of Mainers on the
battlefield and the home front, Maine Historical Society (MHS) and Maine
Humanities Council (MHC) are offering 10 Maine communities the opportunity
to explore their local Civil War history through a new joint program,
“Local & Legendary: Maine and the Civil War.” This project, which is meant
to bring communities together around their stories, has received major
support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Each community involved in “Local & Legendary” will form a team consisting
of a local historical institution, a library, and an education
institution. The team will work collaboratively on a variety of activities
including digitizing local historical collections, creating online
exhibits on Maine Memory Network (www.mainememory.net), and hosting a
series of “One Story, One Community” programs. Each participating
community will receive a $2,000 grant and substantial training and
resources to support their work. A
one-day public symposium on April 27, 2013 at USM’s Hannaford Hall,
featuring national and state-based speakers, formally kicks off the
project.

The community application process for the first five communities opens on
January 2, 2013, with a deadline of March 1, 2013. Five additional
communities will be selected in 2014. Visit www.mainehumanities.org or
www.mainememory.net/cwgrants for program details and application
materials, or contact Anne Schlitt at MHC at annes@mainehumanities.org) or
Larissa Vigue Picard at MHS (lvpicard@mainehistory.org) for more
information.

Newport, Rhode Island
November 13-15, 2013
Who Cares? Why Museums Are Needed Now More Than Ever

 Behind the question "Who cares?" lies the fundamental struggle challenging today's museums to stay relevant in an evolving, revolving, revolutionary world. How do we deliver the "authentic" experiences the public craves as an alternative to the virtual, electronic worlds of mass entertainment? Who is our audience in an increasingly diverse community? What do we have to do understand and connect to those audiences? Where are communities headed if they don't have vibrant museums in their midst? Most important, why do museums have value at all?

These are the important questions we'll be raising at the 95th Annual NEMA Conference in Newport, Rhode Island. Fueled by the theme "Who Cares? Why Museums Are Needed Now More Than Ever" (which you and your colleagues crowdsourced at the 2012 conference), the museum field will descend on Newport with more ideas, interactivity, and inspiration than ever before. It's your chance to add your voice to the debate about who cares about museums and the roles we play in society. So put on your thinking cap and make plans for a dynamic conference session that helps us find the answer to "Who cares?"

 In addition to theme-related sessions, we also welcome sessions exploring issues of technology, future leadership, and public accountability in museums. Sessions on professional development topics for individuals such as networking, personal growth, and public speaking are also welcome. NEMA strives to offer sessions on topics including museum governance, administration, visitor services, volunteer management, human resources, education, exhibitions, curatorial and conservation, registration, membership, development, and marketing. In content and in format, all sessions should stimulate discussion, raise new ideas, debate solutions, and spark imagination. Join us and share your experience!


A great conference begins with great NEMA members! Consider joining us in Newport as a session chair or presenter. To submit a proposal click here. Proposals must be received by February 1, 2013.