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Some Museums have special things to offer other professionals in the field.  Some organizations can help you improve your Museum or techniques.  Here are low (no) cost services that could help you!  If your institution, or one you know, has something that other Museum professionals might be interested in, e-mail the webmaster with your suggestions.

Study of International Visitors to Small Museums

I am looking for small (3 or fewer full-time paid staff) history museums willing to distribute one-page survey forms to their international visitors. This research will run from October 2007 through the end of June 2008. The results will be part of a book on history exhibits in small museums and non-museum settings. Participating museums will receive a package of survey materials including survey forms in five languages, instructions on distributing the survey, and a stamped return envelope. Participating museums will also receive a copy of the results report in August 2008. If your museum would like to participate, or if you have any questions, please contact Tammy S. Gordon, History Department, University of North Carolina Wilmington, stonegordont@uncw.edu or 910-962-4244.

Shaping Outcomes National Launch

Shaping Outcomes, a new online course in outcomes-based planning and evaluation (OBPE), is available to museum and library professionals.  Shaping Outcomes is a collaboration between the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis (IUPUI) to create an instructor mediated online course that trains museum and library professionals to master and apply OBPE concepts to museum and library programming, and exhibition planning.  Participants in Shaping Outcomes work at their own pace through five interactive modules over approximately five weeks.  With the support of an instructor, they learn the vocabulary and methods of OBPE and they develop a logic model for a program or project at their own institution.   
Shaping Outcomes courses are being offered in the Summer and Fall of 2007, free of charge, for library and museum professionals nationwide. A special section for library and museum studies faculty, professional trainers, or others who might teach Shaping Outcomes or incorporate it in their own curriculum is being offered in October 2007.  If you are interested in registering for one of these courses or learning more about these course offerings, please explore our website www.shapingoutcomes.org or contact the project manager by email at outcomes@iupui.edu or through postal mail at:

Shaping Outcomes
Project Manager
Cavanaugh Hall #413
425 University Blvd.
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Voice: 317-274-1406
Fax: (317) 278-5220  

Sandhill Quilting is a USA family owned and operated manufacturer of quilted moving pads and custom fitted covers to be used in the furniture, appliance, institutional, commerical, medical, casket, music and museum industries. Our pads and ability to manufacture custom covers could assist you with your exhibit storage. Sandhill just finished making custom exhibit covers for a national travelling show of "deadly diseases".
Sandhill Quilting 1-800-228-1962 sandhilquilt@shtc.net

Professional Model Shipwright, Maritime Historian & Lecturer
William Thomas-Moore: We have feature articles about our gallery museum, Ship Shapes Maritime Museum, in various publications, such as the Charleston Magazine and local newspapers. We are the only authentic maritime "museum" gallery in the Southeast, exhibiting authentic nautical artifacts, museum quality ship models and maritime art.
We sponsor the Charleston Harbor Society, founded 2005, and conduct educational forums and events, quarterly, at the Harbour Club, downtown Charleston, SC.
Mr. Thomas-Moore Lectures and demonstrates his expertise to groups. Title: "Ships in the Attic" (Maritime History in Miniature) --regarding building and restoring ships, in period costume, circa 1700s, and "Romancing the Hunley" an original one act play set in 1864, based on the story of the H. L. Hunley Confederate Submarine, and its crew. His "Hunley" lectures were at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Mystic Seaport and the Submarine Museum at Groton, CT, and the Citadel, etc.

How to Create an Exhibit on a Shoestring Budget by Kim Kenney

All you ever wanted to know about creating your first museum exhibit! This ebook contains advice from a professional curator, including photos, charts, worksheets, samples, lists, and MORE! Learn about what goes on "behind the scenes" in a museum.

Program designer/educator available for part-time consulting work.
I have more than 10 years' experience planning, developing, implementing and managing educational programs for school, family and adult audiences in a range of museum and non-profit settings. I have particular expertise in developing programs to meet an institution's strategic goals, such as increased attendance, revenue and/or public awareness, and can help your organization design (or re-design) programs to do the same. I also have extensive experience in program evaluation and fundraising. Resume & references available upon request. Reasonable hourly rates. Please contact pdedwards4@yahoo.com.

Free subscription to Contingency Planning & Management Magazine.  This publication deals with emergency management issues, including recovery from all kinds of disasters. The nice thing is that if you keep them they have sources for emergency services. The whole thing is geared toward business, it is not museum specific.A one-page article in this month's issue deals with embezzlement by trusted, long term, otherwise great employees. The five simple steps to protecting a businesses assets are easily adapted to a museum collection.  Everything from data recovery from a fire damaged computer to how to help staff members cope with a disaster is in this magazine.

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AASLH Offers Historic House Listserv - When you join the Historic House Museum listserve, you will receive to your e-mail account all of the questions, comments, and discussions your peers in the field have posted to the listserve. You can participate in the discussion by sending your own e-mail message at any time. Or simply listen in - you might learn something you didn't even know you needed. Anyone working in historic house museums is eligible to participate, but only people working in historic house museums are invited to join the group.

Blind Industries and Services of Maryland will convert your visitors guide (or anything else) into Braille for only $1.00 per page. This is an excellent way to add ADA compliance without breaking the bank.  Call 1-888-322-4567 x 290  ask  for Christina or email ctanner@bism.com  (from Mike Leister, AMC Museum)

Dan Watson Welding, in Camden DE, 302-698-9507 provides inexpensive, good quality stanchions. They are painted metal, not chrome plated, but they are highly effective because the base is large in diameter (18") and convex so people will not trip over them. They are stable enough that you can run thirty feet of 3/8 red nylon rope between two stanchions if necessary. Crowd control stanchions are available for $50 each. Painted in your choice of colors. Heights available from 10" to  36". Each has a 1 ¼" ID ring at the top. Other heights and sizes available on special order. No Tax in Delaware. Shipping and handling extra. (from Mike Leister, AMC Museum)

This monthly electronic newsletter from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) will offer information about new grants, highlights of best practices and successful grant proposals, notices of new publications, and other news related to the agency. Judging from the inaugural issue (January 2000), the newsletter will primarily consist of a number of short pieces, one or two paragraphs apiece, accompanied by links to more information at the IMLS Website. Users can subscribe at the URL or read the newsletter online at the IMLS site.

OnTarget Fabricating/Estimating Inc. of Bear, Delaware, provides museum and exhibit fabrication services.

Online Education Courses: Valerie Colston, M.A. creator of Art Teacher on the Net located at www.artmuseums.com is an experienced art professor and arts writer who is available to write and develop online museum courses for your museum. Online courses allow visitors from around the world to visit and learn from your museum. Ms. Colston is also available to develop education guides and interactive games for visitors, teachers and students who visit your museum. Reasonalble hourly rates. Contact: Valerie Colston 858-453-2ARTS or through email at crafts@artmuseums.com or art259@hotmail.com

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