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2010 Annual Meeting ~ Oklahoma City, OK American Association for State and Local History O Oklahoma Museums Association
Welcome to klahoma City
Dear Attendees: Welcome to Oklahoma City! We are delighted to have you here for a very special joint annual meeting of the Oklahoma Museums Association and the American Association for State and Local History. We are certain that by the time you leave the Sooner State, Table of Contents you will understand why, in 2007, the Oklahoma Museums Association (OMA) was selected by the Oklahoma Heritage Association to receive the Edward L. & Thelma 3 Need to Know! Gaylord Oklahoma Territory Award for Preservation of State and Local History. Registration Desk Hours Conference Center Maps The Local HostO and Program Committees created a terrific meeting experience for you, including speakers, sessions, tours, an outstanding exhibit hall, and evening events that are the perfect combination of fun and educational. We are sure you will 4 Featured Speakers enjoy this first-rate professional development and networking opportunity, and hope you take part in as many events as possible. 5 Annual Meeting OMA is especially pleased to join its annual conference with AASLH this year. OMA Highlights is the primary source of information and professional development for Oklahoma’s 500 museums, historical societies, historic sites, zoos, botanical gardens, historic 6–7 Schedule At-A-Glance houses, living history museums, tribal cultural centers, and other museum-related institutions. The association is delighted to have you in Oklahoma. We extend our hospitality to you and hope you enjoy your time in the Sooner State. 8–9 Exhibit Hall Highlights and Map Your registration packet contains many important items. Be sure to look through it carefully for notices and program updates. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to ask one of the many volunteers working at the meeting. You can spot them by the 10–19 Exhibitors List ribbons they wear: Purple – Volunteer Staff 20–21 Tours Maroon – AASLH Council Members Teal – OMA Board Members 22 Evening Events Blue – Tribal Track Planning Committee Cream – Host Committee Premeeting Workshops Pink – Program Committee 23–24 Wednesday, September Please take the time to thank our sponsors and exhibitors for their role in making this Concurrent Sessions meeting useful and affordable. These dedicated professionals are here to bring you products and services that will help you in your important work. They also enable us and Program to keep your registration fee the best deal in the country! 25–30 Thursday, September 23 On behalf of AASLH, OMA, and the dozens of volunteers who have worked so 31–36 Friday, September 24 hard to bring you this event—have fun and remember that we are here to make this 37–40 Saturday, September 25 meeting a special experience for you. Don’t hesitate to let us know how we can help. 41–44 Sponsors and Special Thanks!
Terry L. Davis Brenda Granger President and CEO Executive Director AASLH Oklahoma Museums Association
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Need to Know! AASLH/OMA 1. Name badges must be worn at all times. Registration Desk Hours 2. Only registered attendees will be allowed The AASLH/OMA Annual Meeting Message Board to attend sessions and workshops. registration desk is located in the Oklahoma City Cox Convention Center. The desk A message board 3. Nonregistered guests are not allowed to will be staffed during the following times to attend sessions or workshops, but may will be located near answer any questions you may have during purchase tickets to attend tours and other the AASLH/OMA the meeting. special events. Please check with AASLH/ registration desk. OMA registration desk for Oavailability. Tuesday, September 21 3 pm to 5 pm 4. Your purchased tickets are located in Wednesday, September 22 7 am to 6 pm your registration pack. Please check them Thursday, September 23 7 am to 6 pm for the appropriate meeting times and Friday, September 24 7 am to 5 pm locations for special events. Saturday, September 25 7 am to 12 pm 5. Tickets are necessary for all workshops, labs, most luncheons, tours, and evening events. Please show your ticket before Sessions and Annual Meeting Evaluations boarding busses or entering an evening Help us improve! Session evaluations are placed in each meeting event. If you’d like to purchase tickets, 3 room. Please take just a few minutes to complete the form at the please visit the AASLH/OMA registration end of the session. An overall Annual Meeting evaluation form will be desk. Some events may be sold out. sent via email after the meeting.
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Winds of Opportunity 3 F eatured Speakers Th u r s d a y , Se p t e m b e r 23 10:45 am – 12 pm
Susan Stamberg is a nationally renowned broadcast journalist and special correspondent for NPR. She is the first woman to anchor a national nightly news program, and has won every major award in broadcasting. One of the most popular broadcasters in public radio, Stamberg is well-known for her conversational style, intelligence, and knack for finding an interesting story. Stamberg’s talk is open to the public and is sponsored by the Oklahoma Humanities Council and the We the People Initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent agency under the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this public program do not necessarily represent those of OHC or NEH. Celebrity L e c ture Agen y
Fr i d a y , Se p t e m b e r 24 10:45 am – 12 pm
Gerard Baker recently retired from the National Park Service as the Assistant Park Service Director for Native American Relations. He also served a superintendent of Mount Rushmore National Memorial. A Mandan-Hidatsa Indian, Gerard Baker grew up on the Fort Berthold Resevation in North Dakota. When he joined the National Park Service, Baked held fast to his native identity, learning more about his people’s history and traditions in every place in which has was stationed. At Rushmore, he expanded his vision to embrace the vast diversity of cultural traditions and stories that make up our national heritage. Baker’s address is part of the Tribal Track at the meeting sponsored in part by funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. PBS .org
Fr i d a y , Se p t e m b e r 24 6:30 – 9:30 pm
Awards Banquet speaker Jim Loewen is a sociologist and author of the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, in part a telling critique of existing American history textbooks but, more importantly, a wonderful retelling of American History as it should, and could, be taught to American students. Loewen’s 1999 book, Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong, teaches visitors to read between the lines of historical markers and to deconstruct the sculptures on monuments and memorials. mes W. L oe w en J a mes W.
Tribal Track In recognition of the ever-growing number of tribal cultural institutions, AASLH/OMA welcomes the addition of twenty dynamic programs designed to address the needs of, and build bridges between, tribal and non-tribal organizations. Identified by “The Guardian” icon, the programs were planned by the distinguished members of the Tribal Program Planning Committee of the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM). AASLH is grateful for the good work of the committee, as well as the support of the Oklahoma Museums Association and the Oklahoma Department of Libraries. The programs, and thirty-five scholarships, were funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services through a three-year grant awarded to the Oklahoma Department of Libraries for the Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums Initiative. Visit www.atalm.org for more information.
4 AASLH/OMA Annual Meeting klahoma City 2010 O AnnualMeetingH ighlights Schedule Changes! Sharing Your Ideas and Please double check your schedule to make sure some of the Opportunities sessions and programs that you plan to attend have not changed. The Annual Meeting includes activities and networking especially for the field of state and NEW TIME: local history! You’re invited to attend the following • Weathering the Storm: Memorializing What Has Been Lost has AASLH Affinity Group Events to discuss the latest been moved to Friday, September 24 at 8:30 am. issues, share ideas, and be inspired: • Getting It Right: Designing and Managing a Successful Tribal Museum Store has been moved to Thursday, September 23 at Corporate History Museums and Archives 4 pm. Tour on Wednesday and Lunch on Thursday CANCELLED: Court and Legal History • A Revisionist Approach to Professional Ethics scheduled for Session and Lunch on Friday Friday, September 24 at 8:30 am. • Map Detectives: An Overview of Locating, Interpreting, and Educators and Interpreters Preserving Historic Maps scheduled for Thursday, September Breakfast Roundtable and Educator’s Showcase on 23 at 4 pm. Thursday • Bringing Native Voices into the Classroom: Successful Collaborations Among Tribes, Museums, Libraries, Archives, Historic House Museums and Educators scheduled for Saturday, September 25 at 10:45 am. Breakfast on Friday NEW! Internet Digital Encyclopedia Alliance (IDEA) • The Essential Frameworks of Informal Learning will be held on Friday, September 24 at 4 pm. Breakfast on Friday • From Song to Canvas: Map Art of the Zuni will be held on Military History Friday, September 24 at 8:30 am. Tour on Saturday • Awards Banquet speaker Jim Loewen, author of Lies My Teacher Told Me, will be holding a two sessions on Saturday, September Small Museums 25. How to Involve Your Constituency in Doing Local History Luncheon and Small Museums Day on Thursday will be held at 9 am and Handling Controversial Topics will be held at 10:45 am. Visitors’ Voices • 2011 Annual Meeting Roundtable will be held on Saturday, Roundtable Discussion in Exhibit Hall on Thursday September 25 at 10:45 am.
Purchase Carbon Credits Cowboy Up! The Oklahoma Carbon Initiative works with Get a glimpse of the Old West as The Oklahoma Kid will Oklahoma farmers, ranchers, and other landowners perform rope tricks and entertain the crowd from 10–10:45 am to encourage them to use practices that help protect outside the keynote address venue on Thursday, September 23. and conserve the land, air, and water. These practices Red Earth Market sequester carbon, protect the quality of Oklahoma’s Original works of art by local and regional Native artists are water, and develop the state’s wildlife habitat. Through featured at the Red Earth Museum and Gallery booth in the your purchase, you will be helping Oklahomans protect foyer near registration. Items for sale include baskets, pottery, our natural resources, now and for future generations jewelry, original paintings and prints, painted gourds, scarves to come, all while offsetting the small impact of your and purses, dolls, books, and a variety of cultural items. trip to our great state. Purchase your carbon credits at the Oklahoma Museums Association booth. Book Signing Awards Banquet speaker Jim Loewen will sign copies of his books in the exhibit hall on Friday, September 24 from 3:15–4 pm.
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Winds of Opportunity 5 Th u r s d a y , Se p t e m b e r 23 7 am – 6 pm Registration 8 am – • Tour: Guthrie, a Capital Idea Cost: $45 chedule 3:30 pm 8:30 – 9:45 am • Educators and Interpreters Breakfast Cost: $20 S 8:30 – 9:45 am Concurrent Sessions • Examining the College/Museum Partnership MR 1 • Field Services Alliance Presents Museum Tips MR 4 • How Corporate Relationships Can Be a Game Changer for Your Museum MR 3 a @lance • IMLS Opportunities for Your Museum: Funding, Research, and Special Initiatives Room: MR 9 G • Making Tchotchkes Profitable: How toI mprove Small Museum Gift Shops Note: Indicates Location or Room MR 2 • Making the Most of Expansion Opportunities Room: MR 10 • Moving Beyond Material Culture: Exploring American Indian Issues in the Tu e s d a y , Se p t e m b e r 21 Museum Setting MR 16 and 17 • Visitors from Near or Afar? Why it Matters How Far your Visitors are 3 – 5 pm Registration Traveling and How to Market Accordingly MR 11 • When the Winds Reach a Category 5: New Resources for Emergency Preparedness and Response MR 12 We d n e s d a y , Se p t e m b e r 22 • Which History, Whose History? Finding Common Ground During a Cultural Tornado MR 19 7 am – Registration 6 pm 9:45 – • Morning Refreshment Break in Exhibit Hall 10:45 am 8 am – • Tour: Black Gold and the Mother • First Time Attendees Reception MR 15 5:30 pm Road Cost: $55 • Visitors’ Voices Coffee Break in Exhibit Hall 8:30 am – • Workshop: Digital Preservation of 10:45 am – 12 pm Oral History—Best Practices and 12 pm Keynote Speaker: Susan Stamberg MR AB New Issues Cost: $45 MR 5 12 – 1:15 pm • Corporate History Luncheon Cost: $30 MR 15 • Workshop: Small Museum Web Presence and Technology Tips • Directors Luncheon Cost: $30 MR 5 Cost: $45 MR 9 • Small Museums Luncheon Cost: $30 MR 14 • Train-the-Trainer: By Invitation Only • OMA Standing Professional Committees Luncheon Cost: $20 MR 20 Cost: Free MR 14 1 – 6 pm • Tour: Sooner Stars, Storms, and Dinosaurs Cost: $35 8:30 am – • Workshop: Care of Folded and 1:30 – 2:45 pm Concurrent Sessions 5 pm Rolled Documents Cost: $50 Oklahoma History Center • Achieving Board Excellence MR 3 • Workshop: Common Ground: Best • Digitizing the Civil War MR 10 NAGPRA Practices for Museums • Engaging All Ages: A Discussion of Successful Family Programming MR 4 and Tribes Cost: $20 Oklahoma • For Profit Nonprofits MR 12 History Center • IDEA Roundtable MR 9 • Workshop: Keep Your Institution • Mummies, Marketing, and Media Madness MR 11 Safe and Secure: How to Create a Safety Training Program • Not Your Same Old Strategic Planning Process for Small Museums MR 2 Cost: $75 Oklahoma City • Partnering for Success MR 1 National Memorial and Museum • Spotlight on Tribal Museums and Cultural Centers: Successful Case Studies • By Invitation Only: CEO Forum MR 18 Cost: $150/$220 for two from same • Stars, Bars, and More Cars! Challenges and Opportunities in Museum organization MR 11 Planning MR 19 9 am – • Tour: Heartbeat of a Nation: 2:45 – 3:45 pm • Afternoon Refreshment Break and Educators Showcase in the Exhibit Hall 5:30 pm Chickasaw Cultural Center Cost: $55 4 – 5:15 pm Concurrent Sessions 11:30 am – • Tour: Corporate History Tour • Civil Rights Fifty Years Later MR 11 5 pm Cost: $25 • Debating the Rembrandt Rule MR 16 and 17 1 – 5:30 pm • Tour: Red Dirt to Riches • Digital Collections in the Classroom and Beyond MR 4 Cost: $25 • Getting It Right: Designing and Managing a Successful Tribal Museum 1:30 – • Workshop: Connecting Children to Store MR 19 5 pm History with Museum Exhibitions • Getting a Second Wind: Making the Most of Community Outreach MR 10 Cost: $45 MR 5 • Governance and Training for Tired and Humorless Organizations MR 3 • Workshop: Turning Your Vintage • Mutual Goals: Mission vs. Money MR 12 Maps Into Historical and • Native Voices: Using Audio Best Practices to Create Community MR 18 Genealogical Research Assets Cost: $45 MR 9 • Opportunities for Change: Ensuring Archival and History Program Survival in Tough Times MR 2 1:30 – • Field Services Alliance Meeting • Opportunities for NEH Support MR 9 5:30 pm MR 2 Cost: Free • What Should We Do? Utilizing Audience Research to Shape Exhibitions, 6:30 – E v en i ng E v ent: Programming, and Marketing MR 1 9:30 pm Western Round-Up Cost: $45 5:45 – 6:30 pm • Reception: Seminar for Historical Administration Cost: Free MR 15 6:30 – 9:30 pm Evening Event: One Hot Oklahoma Night! Cost: $45
6 AASLH/OMA Annual Meeting klahoma City 2010 O Fr i d a y , Se p t e m b e r 24 Sa t u r d a y , Se p t e m b e r 25 7 am – 6 pm Registration 8 am – 12 pm Registration 7 – 8:15 am • IDEA Breakfast Cost: $20 MR 14 8:30 am – • Tour: One Hot Adventure! • Historic House Museums Breakfast Cost: $20 MR 4 and 5 12:30 pm Cost: $25 7:30 – 9:30 • Tour: Strummin’, Strollin’, and Scones Cost: $20 8:30 am – • Tour: From Route 66 to Outer Space am 5 pm Cost: $55 8:30 am – • Tour: Best of the West Cost: $35 9 am – • Tour: Military History 12:30 pm 5:45 pm Cost: $55 8:30 – Concurrent Sessions 9 – Concurrent Sessions 9:45 am • Advocacy for History Organizations MR 3 10:15 am • Challenges and Change: Historic House • Answering the Questions You Don’t Want People to Ask MR 11 Museums Re-evaluate MR 12 • Engaging Students and Teachers Through Collections MR 9 • Compelling Stories + Creative Interpretation: Two Models for Increased • From Song to Canvas: Map Art of the Zuni MR 1 Community Engagement MR 2 • Mythbusters: Beyond American Indian Advisory Committees MR 16 and • Engaging the Problematic Past MR 17 10 • Partners in Preservation: AIC and You MR 18 • Harnessing the Winds of Opportunity: • Shared Spaces Roundtable MR 2 Creating the Best Fit for Collections in • Small Museums, Big Impact! MR 12 the Space You Have MR 3 • Weathering the Storm: Memorializing What Has Been Lost MR 19 • How to Involve Your Constituency in • What’s Radical About Radical Trust? MR 10 Doing Local History MR 14 • Writing and Publishing on Museum Collections MR 15 • Lessons From the Road MR 9 • Local History, Maine History, and 9:45 – • Morning Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall Beyond: the New Maine Memory 10:45 am Network MR 11 10:45 am – Plenary Speaker: Gerard Baker MR AB • The Museum Different: Comparing 12 pm Native Center Models with Museum Models, Part I 12 – 1 pm • Networking and AASLH Membership Luncheon in the Exhibit Hall Open to All MR 18 • Sustaining Advisory Relationships • Court and Legal History Luncheon Cost: $30 MR 14 Between Historical Organizations and 12 – 1:45 • Oklahoma Museums Association Annual Meeting Luncheon and Awards Cost: American Indian Nations MR 16 and pm $30 MR 4 and 5 17 • We Just Don’t Have the Money: How to 1 – 1:45 pm • AASLH Meeting of the Membership MR AB Protect Visitors, Staff, and Collections 1 – 5 pm • Tour: Our Heritage and Our Heroes Cost: $25 with Reduced Staff and Budgets MR 4 2 – 3:15 pm Concurrent Sessions 10:15 – • Morning Break with Refreshments in 10:45 am Foyer • Building Partnerships Between Museums and Schools: National History Day in Dallas MR 18 10:45 am – Concurrent Sessions • Collections Inventories: Turning a Tornado into a Breeze MR 1 12 pm • 2011 Annual Meeting Roundtable • Creating Experiences Visitors and Communities Value MR 19 MR 5 • Dealing with Tragedy: Museums and Memorialization MR 16 and 17 • Building Community Connections: • Determining the Effectiveness of School Programs: A Strategy for All MR 10 Collaborations for the 21st Century MR 12 • Gen X Leadership Considered MR 3 • Calculating Risk: Using Project • How SMART Phones Can Impact Historical Organizations MR 11 Management Skills to Bring Home a • Interpreting Slavery and the Slave Trade at Northern Historic Sites, Part I Successful Project MR 11 MR 2 • Change as Opportunity: Lessons of • Preserving Native American Collections: Resources and Opportunities MR 12 Leadership Transitions MR 4 • Using Resources Wisely: Training and Evaluating Volunteers MR 9 • Handling Controversial Topics MR 14 • Where Do I Turn for Help? New Online Resources for Museum Professionals • The Museum Different: Comparing MR 15 Native Center Models with Museum 3:15 – 4 pm • Afternoon Refreshment Break and Award Winner Showcase in the Exhibit Hall Models, Part II MR 18 • Neighborhood Collaboration: Building 4 – 5:15 pm Concurrent Sessions Professional Development Workshops • Addressing 21st Century Skills in Historical Organizations MR 3 Together MR 9 • Burdens, Benefits, and Balance:U niversity Based Historic House Museums • Of the Student, By the Student, For the MR 12 Student MR 10 • The Essential Framework of Informal Learning Room: MR 15 • Opportunities and Applications: • Interpreting Slavery and the Slave Trade at Northern Historic Sites, Part II Students Research Local History MR 3 MR 2 • Why Not Volunteers? Developing Staff • Opportunity All Around: Growing the Museum Field, Cultivating Young and Volunteer Partnerships MR 2 Professionals, Producing Great Work MR 9 12:15 – • Tribal Track Closing Luncheon • Programming and Interpreting Military History MR 19 1:30 pm Cost: $20 MR 19 and 20 • Remembering the Past, Building for the Future: How to Develop and Implement a Historically Significant Time Capsule Project MR 16 and 17 1 – 5 pm • Hands On Lab: Pathways Cost: $25 Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library • Taking Your Museum to the Next Level MR 18 • Using CollectiveAccess to Manage Collections: A Case Study MR 11 3 – 6 pm A fternoon E v ent: • Web Usability Lab MR 10 Relaxing at an Oklahoma Treasure Cost: $35 6:30 – Evening Event: Leadership in History Awards Banquet 9:30 pm Cost: $55 MR AB
Winds of Opportunity 7 Exhibit HallH ighlights
Explore New Products and Services Special Activities in the Exhibit Hall in the Exhibit Hall Thursday On Thursday, September 23 and Friday, September 24, 9:45–10:45 am – Visitors’ Voices Affinity Group is don’t miss your chance to visit the AASLH Career Kiosk sponsoring a roundtable discussion on evaluation in small and meet more than sixty vendors and suppliers at this museums. year’s annual meeting. The Exhibit Hall is your place to network, check out the latest technology and services 2:45–3:45 pm – The Educators and Interpreters Affinity being offered, and WIN lots of great prizes! Group is sponsoring the Educator’s Showcase. Friday Food, Drinks, and Networking! 12:00–1:00 pm – Get a free meal at the AASLH The Exhibit Hall also features networking, food, and Membership Luncheon. beverages during the Annual Meeting. Take a break and join your peers for networking, food, and fun! 3:15–4:00 pm – See the best in state and local history with the Award Winner’s Showcase and learn how to nominate Thursday, September 23 your organization for an award. Also, Awards Banquet Speaker Jim Loewen will be signing copies of his books in 9:45–10:45 am Morning Refreshment Break the exhibit hall. 2:45–3:45 pm Afternoon Refreshment Break Friday, September 24 StEPs 9:45–10:45 am Morning Refreshment Break Standards and Excellence Program for History Organizations 3:15–4 pm Afternoon Refreshment Break AASLH has a new program for small- AASLH/OMA Career Center and mid-sized history Post your resume and find out who is hiring! organizations called StEPs. Stop by the AASLH booth on Friday, September 24 Email Center and Cyber Café from 9:45–10:45 am and The AASLH/OMA Exhibit Hall includes email stations visit with Cherie Cook, for anyone who needs to send or receive email while at AASLH Senior Program Manager. Cherie can show you the event. the StEPs workbook and answer questions about this valuable new program. Bead a Pair of Tribal-Inspired Earrings for You or Someone Special… in the Foyer Noted Choctaw beadwork artist Chester Cowen will provide hands-on instruction for making beaded earrings, a craft associated with many American Indian tribes. For those wishing to make a pair of earrings, complimentary supplies and materials are available. Sponsored by the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums.
WIN GREAT PRIZES! In addition to networking and food, the exhibit hall offers an opportunity to win a laptop computer by participating in the Trivia game. And exhibitors will also be giving away their own GREAT prizes. Check out your Trivia card inside your tote bag for more information.
8 AASLH/OMA Annual Meeting klahoma City 2010 O 2010 AASLH/ OMA This is your chance to explore the latest and greatest ExhibitorsList products and services available to history organizations.
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AASLH Programs and Services...... Foyer EwingCole...... 38 Nerwin&Martin...... 30 AASLH/OMA Career Center. Behind Booth #69 Exhibire Traveling Art...... 59 Northeast Document Conservation Center. . 15 AltaMira Press...... 33 and 34 Exhibit Concepts, Inc...... 35 NRG! Exhibits...... 54 American Association of Museums. . . . . 63 Exhibit Engineering...... 69 Oklahoma Museums Association. . 74 and 75 American Heritage...... 6 Exhibits USA / MAAA...... 40 Oklahoma University Press...... 27 American Indian Cultural Center Four Colour Print Group...... 66 OnCell Systems, Inc...... 43 & Museum...... 65 Frankfurt Short Bruza...... 29 PastPerfect Software, Inc...... 28 American Institute for Conservation. . . . .12 Gaylord Bros...... 49 Preservation Technologies...... 18 Amigos Library Services...... 3 Griffin & Ambrose ...... 10 Quatrefoil Associates ...... 22 Arcadia Publishing...... 11 Guide by Cell...... 24 The ResCarta Foundation, Inc...... 72 Architectural Design Group, Inc...... 53 Heritage Preservation...... 51 Re:discovery Software, Inc...... 78 Audissey Guides...... 70 The History Press...... 62 ResourceMate by Jaywil Software Bear Wallow Books, Publishers, Inc.. . . . 17 Hollinger Metal Edge ...... 36 Development Inc...... 21 Benefactor Travel...... 41 The Hollomon Group, Inc...... 68 Ride into History ...... 13 Brad Larson Media ...... 1 Institute of Museum and Library Services. . 50 Riggs Ward Design...... 67 Certified Folder Display Service...... 44 Integrated Business Systems, Inc...... 14 The Scholar’s Choice...... 48 ChemArt...... 16 Kansas Museums Association ...... 71 Southwest Solutions Group / Spacesaver. . 39 Cherokee Nation...... 9 LearningTimes, LLC...... 61 Split Rock Studios...... 60 Chickasaw Cultural Center ...... 56 Left Coast Press...... 23 Stobbe Design...... 20 Crain Displays...... 55 LYRASIS...... 52 Tour-Mate Systems ...... 19 Creation Station...... 32 Making History Connections...... 5 University of Oklahoma Museum Studies Program...... 64 The Creative Company...... 31 Martin&Martin Fine Art Services...... 76 University of Tulsa...... 58 Custom Home & Historical MBA Design & Display Products Corp.. . . 26 Accessories, Inc...... 45 USS Constitution Museum...... 7 Museum Arts...... 42 The Donning Company Publishers . . . . . 25 West Virginia University / Museum Works...... 73 Echo-Hawk Indian Trading Company. . . . 77 National Park Service Civil War 150th . . . 47 MuseumRails...... 57 Elliott + Associates Architects...... 46 Western Center for the Conservation National Endowment for the Humanities. . . 2 of Fine Arts ...... 8 eTapestry...... 4 National Guard...... 37 The American Association for ExStatehi bandit Local hall History
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Winds of Opportunity 9 2010 AASLH/ OMAExhibitors AASLH Programs and AltaMira specializes in the historical sites and will soon membership organization Services humanities and social sciences, feature collection information for supporting conservation focusing on helping the hundreds of museums, archives professionals in preserving Foyer professional development of those and libraries nationwide. cultural heritage by establishing Contact: Membership Services working in the cultural life of a and upholding professional 1717 Church St. community’s museum, historical American Indian Cultural standards, promoting research and Nashville, TN 37203 society, arts center, and church. Center & Museum publications, providing educational Phone: 615-320-3203 Booth: #65 opportunities, and fostering the E-mail: [email protected] American Association of exchange of knowledge among Web: www.aaslh.org Contact: Stacey Halfmoon Museums 900 N. Broadway, Suite 200 conservators, allied professionals, Check out the many programs Booth: #63 and the public. and resources that AASLH offers Oklahoma City, OK 73102-5843 including StEPs, Visitors Count!, Contact: Janet Vaughan Phone: 405-239-5500 Amigos Library Services professional development and 1575 Eye St. NW, Suite 400 E-mail: [email protected] Washington, DC 20005 Web: www.aiccm.org Booth: #3 more. We are your home for Contact: Pam Carter history! Phone: 202-289-9120 The American Indian Cultural E-mail: [email protected] Center & Museum is a State 14400 Midway Road Web: www.aam-us.org of Oklahoma project currently Dallas, TX 75244-3509 AASLH/OMA Career Center Phone: 972-340-2883 Booth: Behind Booth 69 AAM is your resource, voice under development in downtown and community—giving you the Oklahoma City. Information about E-mail: [email protected] Contact: Membership Services for valuable tools and resources you this 300-acre cultural park and Web: www.amigos.org AASLH or OMA need to succeed. the 39 Tribes of Oklahoma tribes The Imaging and Preservation Web: www.aaslh.org; www. will be shared. Service is an NEH funded okmuseums.org American Heritage preservation and imaging Stop by to see information on job Booth: #6 American Institute for field service offering training, openings in the field or leave your Contact: Jeffrey Martin Conservation consulting and free resource resume for potential employers. 416 Hungerford Dr., Suite 216 Booth: #12 center. Amigos other services include continuing education, AltaMira Press Rockville, MD 20850 Contact: Ruth Seyler Phone: 240-453-0900 x11 discount services, courier service, Booth: #34 1156 15th St. NW, #320 and other customized services. E-mail: jmartin@americanheritage. Washington, DC 20005 Contact: Jessica Wetzel com Phone; 202-661-8062 Arcadia Publishing 4501 Forbes Blvd., Suite 200 Web: www.americanheritage.com E-mail: [email protected] Booth: #11 Lanham, MD 20706 HeritageSites, a collaboration Web: www.conservation-us.org Phone: 800-462-6420 Contact: Katie Kellett between American Heritage The American Institute for E-mail: [email protected] 420 Wando Park Blvd. Publishing and AASLH, provides Conservation (AIC) is the national Web: www.rowman.com information on nearly 4,000 Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
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AASLH wishes to thank The History Channel for its generous support of the Awards Banquet.
Winds of Opportunity 19 These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require preregistration. ours See the registration desk for details. T We d n e s d a y , Se p t e m b e r 22 Black Gold and the Mother Road Heartbeat of a Nation: 8 am – 5:30 pm Cost: $55 Chickasaw Cultural Center Step back to a time when Tulsa was the oil capital of 9 am – 5:30 pm Cost: $55 the world and Route 66 was the Mother Road. Visit the Travel to the foot of the ancient Arbuckle Mountains Chandler Route 66 Interpretive Center, located in a 1930s in south central Oklahoma to experience America’s WPA Armory, along with a Route 66 icon, the Round Barn largest tribal cultural center. Witness first-hand built in 1898. While in Tulsa, explore the Philbrook Museum how the world-class Chickasaw Cultural Center of Art, (below) housed in an Italian Renaissance Villa, and the combines state-of-the-art technology and richly Gilcrease Museum, home to a comprehensive collection of theatrical environments to immerse visitors in an Native American and Western art. Lunch is included. unforgettably vibrant, hands-on experience designed to share the Chickasaw’s rich and vibrant culture. Walk in the footsteps of the Ancients through the Spirit Forest, travel the Chickasaw people’s forced removal from their homeland, celebrate the Chickasaw cultural revitalization of the twentieth century in the Stomp Dance Gallery, experience a traditional village tour, view the archives in the Holisso Research Center, and enjoy a large-format film about Chickasaws and their stories. A traditional lunch will be served in the Aaimpa’ Café. el O K. c om T r av
Corporate History Tour Red Dirt to Riches 11:30 am – 5:30 pm Cost: $25 1 – 5 pm Cost: $25 Join the AASLH Corporate History Affinity Group for Did you know Oklahoma City was founded in one day? a visit to The Conoco Museum in Ponca City. This $4 Step back to territorial times on original Land Run property million corporate museum opened in 2007 and its exhibits at the Historic Harn Homestead Museum. Then tour the highlight the growth of the Conoco company from its State Capitol, constructed in 1917 and domed in 2007—the early days as a kerosene distributor, to the wildcat days of only capitol in the world surrounded by working oil wells! the Cherokee Outlet, to an international energy empire. Finally, visit the 14,000-square-foot Governor’s Mansion, A box lunch is included. Sponsored by the Chesapeake Energy dedicated October 1928, and learn how the city went from Corporation farmland to riches.
Th u r s d a y , Se p t e m b e r 23 Guthrie: A Capital Idea Sooner Stars, Storms, and Dinosaurs 8 am – 3 pm Cost: $45 1 – 6 pm Cost: $35
el O K. c om T r av Born during the Land Run in Norman, known for its unpredictable weather and native 1889, Guthrie, Oklahoma’s first roots, sits just south of the USA crossroads, I-35 and I-40. State Capital, exploded into a Home to the University of Oklahoma, Sooner Pride runs city of over 10,000 people in deep in the veins of the Norman community. Soak up a single day. Begin your visit some “Sooner Magic” in Norman with a driving tour of at the Oklahoma Territorial the historic University of Oklahoma campus. Discover a Museum and hear the story of Guinness-World-Record-holding Pentaceratops at the the determined people who laid nation’s largest university-based natural history museum, the foundation for the future the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History State of Oklahoma. Then, tour (right). Then, step into the world’s largest Scottish Rite the eye of the storm with Masonic Temple (right). a tour of the National Following a driving tour of Weather Service Severe Guthrie and a delicious lunch, Storm Prediction Center, explore the Victorian downtown area, designated a government research as a National Historic District, on your own by lab specializing in severe visiting more historic sites or enjoying some shopping. and hazardous
Lunch is included. weather research. el O K. c om T r av
20 AASLH/OMA Annual Meeting klahoma City 2010 O Buses for tours and evening events will depart from the Sheridan Street entrance of the Renaissance Hotel. Please arrive fifteen minutes prior to event.
Fr i d a y , Se p t e m b e r 24 Strummin’, Strollin’, and Best of the West Our Heritage and Our Heroes Scones Walking Tour 8:30 am – 12:30 pm Cost: $35 1 – 5 pm Cost: $25 7:30 – 9:30 am Cost: $20 Experience the best of the West with Begin the day learning about the Enjoy the morning breeze with a a visit to historic Stockyards City, an heritage of the Sooner State with walking tour of Bricktown and historic authentic Western district with the a driving tour of Oklahoma’s first downtown Oklahoma City. Start largest live cattle market/auction in the Historic Preservation District, the morning at the American Banjo world. Enjoy breakfast at Cattlemen’s Heritage Hills. Then tour the Museum, featuring the world’s largest Steakhouse, the oldest continuing Oklahoma Heritage Association collection of banjos and celebrating restaurant operation in the state, and Gaylord-Pickens Museum filled the instrument’s rich history. Stroll serving hearty breakfasts and slab-like with high-tech exhibits focused on through an array of sights and sounds steaks to the working cowboys since telling the story of the state through and experience the evolution of the 1910. After a hearty meal, take a peek its people. Next, be inspired by the banjo from primitive folk instrument at the modern west with a driving heroism of everyday Americans at the to the opulent Jazz Age creation of tour of the historic stockyards. Finally, Oklahoma City National Memorial the 1920s. Continue exploring the explore The National Cowboy and and Museum which educates on the city with a tour of downtown OKC’s Western Heritage Museum featuring impact of violence, informs about finest architectural gems. Conclude significant works by master artists, events surrounding the bombing, and your walk with a light breakfast at Prosperity Junction—a 14,000 square- inspires hope and healing through the landmark Skirvin Hotel which foot Western town, and exhibition lessons learned by those affected. recently underwent a multimillion galleries highlighting rodeos, western dollar renovation project to restore its performers, and more. original grandeur.
Sa t u r d a y , Se p t e m b e r 25 From Route 66 to Outer Military History Tour One Hot Adventure! Space 9 am – 5:45 pm Cost: $55 8:30 am – 12:30 pm Cost: $25 8:30 am – 5 pm Cost: $55 Join the AASLH Military History Visit the Oklahoma State Firefighters Affinity Group and experience Museum featuring turn-of-the-century Oklahoma’s military history. Start your fire engines, Oklahoma’s first fire journey at the recently renovated 45th station, and the finest specimens of Infantry Division Museum, the largest firefighting equipment anywhere. state-operated Army museum in the Learn about firefighting through country. Then travel by motorcoach history from 1730s bucket brigades to to Fort Sill and the recently opened the present. Next, play the morning US Army Artillery Museum. With away at Science Museum Oklahoma
el O K. c om T r av over 150 artillery pieces on display, (below) exploring over eight acres of Begin your journey at the Oklahoma the museum presents the story of hands-on science experiences plus Route 66 Museum in Clinton. Army Artillery from 1775 to present. thousands of space and aviation Experience six decades of the history Explore the Fort Sill National Historic artifacts, including the International of America’s Mother Road including Landmark and Museum, a frontier fort Gymnastics Hall of Fame. the music, vehicles, and stories that featuring most of the original stone made her famous. Then, find a unique buildings built by the Buffalo Soldiers trinket to take home at one of the of the 10th Cavalry in 1869–70. treasures of Route 66, the Mohawk Visit the 1872 Guardhouse, restored Lodge Indian Store (above), the oldest Cavalry Barracks, and the newly trading post in Oklahoma. Drive completed Warrior’s Journey Gallery through a turbine wind farm on your which tells the story of the Indian way to the Stafford Air and Space warrior from tribal times through to Museum which tells the story of flight the modern US Army. The final stop from Leonardo to Mars with exhibits will be a visit to the Apache POW and artifacts that will leave you amazed Cemetery where Geronimo is buried. and entertained. The tour will return A box lunch is included. to OKC via old Route 66 through historic towns and across the old
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Winds of Opportunity 21 These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require preregistration. Evening Events See the registration desk for details.
We d n e s d a y , Se p t e m b e r 22 Western Round-Up 6:30 – 9:30 pm Cost: $45 Gather ’round and experience the true west at The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. The museum embodies the spirit, passion, and grit symbolized by the American West. Explore the cowboy’s role in fine art and pop culture and contributions to the rich history of the West through Native American objects, firearms, and historical cowboy gear. Get a special sneak peek of the Traditional Cowboy Arts Association 12th Annual Exhibition, an annual tribute to the continuing vitality of Western craftsmanship featuring objects representing saddlemaking, bit and spur making, silversmithing, and rawhide braiding. Also, enjoy heavy hors d’oeuvres, live entertainment, and a cash bar. el O K. c om T r av
Th u r s d a y , Fr i d a y , Sa t u r d a y , Se p t e m b e r 23 Se p t e m b e r 24 Se p t e m b e r 25 One Hot Oklahoma Leadership in History Relaxing Afternoon at an Night! Awards Banquet Oklahoma Treasure 6:30 – 9:30 pm 6:30 – 9:30 pm 3 – 6 pm Cost: $45 Cost: $55 Cost: $35 Dick Tracey to Astronauts. The Join Come wrap up the annual meeting with Flaming Lips (below) to Rockabilly. AASLH in your colleagues and new friends as we Cowboy cool to the Jet Stream. All are honoring enjoy an opportunity to socialize on a uniquely Oklahoman. Be surprised as the best beautiful Oklahoma fall afternoon at you step into Oklahoma’s rich and vivid in state the Historic Harn Homestead Museum. legacy at the Oklahoma History Center. and local This picturesque outdoor museum is an Take a spin in a stage coach, roast history at original Land Run property and home marshmallows at the Cowboy Camp, the 2010 to Oklahoma’s past. Sit back and enjoy find your family’s legacy in the research Leadership a presentation on The Spirit of ’89 by center, fulfill your rock and roll fantasy, in History Dr. Bob Blackburn, Executive Director and more. Network with colleagues and Awards. Jim of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
enjoy an hors d’oeuvre buffet, coffee L oe w en J a mes W. Loewen, This engaging presentation will discuss and dessert lounge, and complimentary sociologist and author of the award- the importance of the Oklahoma land wine, beer, and sodas. winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, runs and the early establishment of will inspire attendees by challenging Oklahoma City. The event will include us with the responsibility a BBQ, guided tours, and vintage lawn organizations have to get history games. right. The evening will also include dinner and a lively awards presentation.
22 AASLH/OMA Annual Meeting klahoma City 2010 O Wednesday, September 22 P remeeting Workshops These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require preregistration. See the registration desk for details.
8:30 a m – 5 p m Care of Folded and Rolled Documents CEO Forum Sponsored by the Oklahoma Historical Records Advisory Board Cost: $150 or $220 for two from the same organization Cost: $50, Limit: 20 registrants XX Room: MR 11 XX Location: Oklahoma History Center By invitation only: Regardless of how well organizations This hands-on workshop provides the basics of are weathering the current economic downturn, there safely caring for and housing folded and rolled is increasing acceptance that history organizations need items. Participants will learn to make humidification new approaches to remain relevant and sustainable. The chambers from plastic trash cans and from plastic challenges and stresses of the day demand creative, adaptive trays with a sheet of Plexiglas and how to use these leadership. This year’s CEO Forum will look at a range to humidify documents; flatten documents using of new organizational strategies including deep, sustained sheets of blotting paper and Plexiglas; stabilize torn collaboration; incorporating the experience and stories of documents by encapsulation in polyester film or placement the audience in the historical narrative; embracing advocacy in a sleeve or envelope; choose from the variety of folders on issues critical to healthy communities; and exploiting and boxes that are commercially available for the storage new technologies. CEOs and senior executives are invited of documents; make custom rigid folders from acid-free to bring their wildest, most revolutionary “what if” ideas corrugated board; and make custom boxes from acid-free and engage in creative thinking exercises with their peers corrugated board. and colleagues. Ch a i r : Norman O. Burns, II, Executive Director, Maymont Ch a i r : Sherelyn Ogden, Head of Conservation, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN Foundation, Richmond, VA Common Ground: Best NAGPRA Practices for Museums and Tribes Cost: $20 (includes lunch), Limit: 85 registrants XXLocation: Oklahoma History Center This workshop begins with a “nuts and bolts” presentation from National NAGPRA on the process, available funding, and the law. The program will also include panels of museum representatives and tribes discussing the consultation process, current concerns, and developing a roadmap for the next twenty years. Co-Ch a i r s : Sherry Hutt, Director, National NAGPRA, Washington, DC, and Sangita Chari, Grants Coordinator National NAGPRA, Washington, DC
Keep Your Institution Safe and Secure: How to Create a Safety Training Program Cost: $75 XX Location: Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum Your museum probably has a carefully drafted collections policy safeguarding artifacts. But, what about a formalized safety program protecting visitors and staff? Attend this hands-on workshop at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum to learn from three institutions of different sizes and disciplines how to develop or strengthen your own safety program. Ch a i r : Karen Graham Wade, Director, Homestead Museum, City of Industry, CA Leon (Gil) Gillum, Director of Security, Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, Oklahoma City, OK Kari Watkins, Executive Director, Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, Oklahoma City, OK Carol Wells, Vice President of Finance and Operations,
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These events are not included in the annual meeting registration fee and require preregistration. See the registration desk for details.
8:30 a m – 12 p m Digital Preservation of Oral History—Best Train-the-Trainer Small Museum Web Presence and Practices and New Issues Workshop Technology Tips Cost: $45 XX Room: MR 14 Cost: $45 XX Room: MR 5 By invitation only. Standards- XX Room: MR 9 This workshop will provide an introduction based curriculum training This workshop will showcase the to archival best practices for preserving for staff of state and regional open source programming concepts multimedia resources created by oral historians. museum associations, field that will allow small institutions to The instructors will cover a variety of issues, services offices, and other establish a Web presence and highlight including appropriate computer file formats service organizations. technology solutions for little money and management, digital storage options, and Co-Ch a i r s : Cherie Cook, with several how-to presentations. Senior Program Manager, conversion of older formats like cassette tapes to Ch a i r : Ted Isham, Curator, Creek Council electronic formats for preservation and access. AASLH, Jefferson City, MO, House Museum, Okmulgee, OK and Linda Norris, Consultant, Ch a i r : Mary Larson, Head, Oklahoma Oral History Riverhill, Treadwell, NY Research Program, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK Doug Boyd, Director, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
1:30 – 5 p m Connecting Children to History with Museum Exhibitions Turning Your Vintage Maps into Historical Cost: $45 and Genealogical Research Assets XX Room: MR 5 Cost: $45 Participate in a dialog that will explore how to develop history XX Room: MR 9 exhibitions for children. This workshop will help you develop the This workshop is a hands-on session demonstrating skills needed to understand and collaborate with kids; define and how vintage maps of any size and scale can be create new and meaningful ways to connect children to history; and readily aligned with one another and with modern develop and design history exhibitions for kids. property lines and aerial photographs, to permit Co-Ch a i r s : John Russick, Senior Curator, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, easy comparison. See clearly the evolution of IL, and D. Lynn McRainey, Elizabeth F. Cheney Director of Education, Chicago schools, roads, rails, towns, and the final result— History Museum, Chicago, IL your community. Benjamin Filene, Director of Public History/Associate Professor, History Ch a i r : Fred Cruger, Granite Falls Historical Society, Department, University of North Carolina Greensboro, Greensboro, NC Granite Falls, WA Andy Anway, Principal, Amaze Design, Boston, MA Kyle Rood, Student Intern, Granite Falls Historical Society, Gail Ringel, Vice President, Exhibits and Production, Boston Children’s Granite Falls, WA Museum, Boston, MA
1:30 – 5:30 p m Field Services Alliance Meeting Cost: Free XX Room: MR 2 Members and interested colleagues of FSA will gather to receive an update on a variety of issues facing local grassroots history organizations. They will also receive an update on the upcoming Field Services Manual. Ch a i r : Laura Casey, State Coordinator, Museum Services Program, Texas Historical Commission, Austin, TX
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T 8:30 – 9:45 a m S eptember 23 Concurrent Sessions Educators and Interpreters Breakfast and Roundtable Preregistration Required, Cost: $20 XX Room: MR 14 Begin the annual meeting at this engaging breakfast where you will have the opportunity to network with peers. Get a quick overview of the different education/interpretation sessions at the 2010 meeting and learn about the work of the AASLH Educators and Interpreters committee. Our featured speaker will be Lynne Roller, Director of Education and Research at the Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum. Lynne’s talk will be Respect, Resilience and Responsibility— Lessons Learned from Violence and Terrorism. Focused table-based discussion will follow the presentation. Co-Ch a i r s : Kyle McKoy, Director, Education and Outreach, Arizona Historical Society, Tempe, AZ, and Linnea Grim, Hunter S. Smith Director of Education and Visitor Programs, Monticello, Charlottesville, VA Examining the College/Museum Field Services Alliance Presents How Corporate Relationships Partnership Museum Tips Can Be a Game Changer for Your XX Room: MR 1 XX Room: MR 4 Museum Staff from two successful small college Basic helpful hints about museum XX Room: MR 3 museums discuss the diverse challenges best practices and procedures by field Museums and corporations working and unique opportunities they face. services providers. This no-nonsense together? It’s all about the cash and The Center for Western Studies at session will provide practical ways panache, or is it? A panel of corporate Augustana College in Sioux Falls, SD, of approaching disaster planning, and nonprofit museum professionals and the Center of Southwest Studies at working with living history groups, invite you to an informative Fort Lewis College in Durango, CO, exhibiting of photos and documents, roundtable on how to approach, are the case studies and shown as best and conducting visitor research. There negotiate, and follow through on practice models. will be four presentations of fifteen mutually beneficial collaborations Ch a i r : Peter Tirrell, Associate Director, minutes each. between your museum and members Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural Ch a i r : Stacy Klingler, Assistant Director, of your business community. History, Norman, OK Local History Services, Indiana Historical Ch a i r : Gregory Vadney, Director, The Sarah Polak, Director, Mari Sandoz High Society, Indianapolis, IN Stickley Museum, L & JG. Stickley and Plains Heritage Center, Chadron State College, Myers Brown, Curator of History and Company, Manilus, NY Chadron, NE Extension Services, Tennessee State Museum, Kristen Jones, Senior Curator, Harley- Ron M. Potvin, Assistant Director and Nashville, TN Davidson Museum, Harley-Davidson USA, Curator, John Nicholas Brown Center for Laura Casey, State Coordinator, Museum Milwaukee, WI Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Services Program, Texas Historical Laura Sadowski, Senior Vice President of Brown University, Providence, RI Commission, Austin, TX Institutional Advancement, Strong National Elayne Silversmith, Librarian, Center Jeff Harris, Director, Local History Services, Museum of Play, Rochester, NY for Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Indiana Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN Durango, CO IMLS Opportunities for Your Making Tchotchkes Making the Most of Expansion Museum: Funding, Research, Profitable: How toI mprove Opportunities and Special Initiatives Small Museum Gift Shops XX Room: MR 10 XX Room: MR 9 XX Room: MR 2 Many museum expansions are based on the IMLS program staff will Join this roundtable session and growing need for exhibit and collection space. provide an overview of IMLS share some of the tips and tricks Two historical societies have expanded their funding opportunities available that work for your gift shop. traditional roles to also become community to museums, including tips Discuss types of items to have centers and tourist destinations. These plans for preparing a competitive in your shop, how to know your required finding new partners and exploring application and common pitfalls visitor’s needs, consignment, new ways of thinking, planning, designing, and to avoid. The presentation will layout, UBIT, and unique ideas marketing. also include an update on recent to bring in customers. Ch a i r : Claudia Berg, Expansion and New Initiatives IMLS publications and national Ch a i r : Delaynna Trim, Curator of Coordinator, State Historical Society of North Dakota, initiatives. Collections, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Bismarck, ND Gary Reetz, Head of HGA Museum Group, HGA Ch a i r : Sandra Narva, Senior Art, Shawnee, OK Program Officer, Institute of Museum Architects and Engineers, Minneapolis, MN and Library Services, Washington, DC Mark Peterson, Director, Winona County Historical Society, Winona, MN More 8:30 – 9:45 am Sessions on Page 26
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T S eptember 23 8:30 – 9:45 a m Concurrent Sessions (continued) Moving Beyond Material Culture: Exploring American Visitors from Near or Afar? Why it Matters Indian Issues in the Museum Setting How Far Your Visitors are Traveling and How XX Room: MR 16 and 17 to Market Accordingly Museum interpreting American Indian history and XX Room: MR 11 culture have a responsibility to address topics that can How do your local visitors differ from those coming be controversial, yet play an important role for Native from farther away? Explore distinctions between communities today. How are museums presenting issues local and non-local visitors from over 100 museums. related to sovereignty, self-determination, and genocide? Do Hear findings. Staff from Naper Settlement and the museums have a role in educating about current activities in Texas Historical Commission will share how such Native communities? This session will highlight patterns are driving planning and marketing efforts. opportunities and inspire dialogue on these important issues. Ch a i r : Diana Kirby, Sites Supervisor, Historic Sites Ch a i r : Raney Bench, Curator of Education, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME Division, Texas Historical Commission, Austin, TX Anne McCudden, Director, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Clewiston, FL Donna Sack, Director of Visitor Services, Naper Settlement, Carolyn Rapkievian, Assistant Director for Education and Museum Programs, Naperville, IL National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC Deb Wilcox, Director of Evaluation, Center for Nonprofit Gena Timberman, Director, American Indian Cultural Center, Oklahoma Management, Nashville, TN City, OK When the Winds Reach a Category 5: New Resources for Which History, Whose History? Emergency Preparedness and Response Finding Common Ground During a Cultural XX Room: MR 12 Tornado Experience has taught us that all disasters are local. Yet response XX Room: MR 19 to a widespread disaster is often coordinated at the state level. In this open-ended, but structured discussion around This session explores innovative tools that are enabling stewards of the idea of truth, participants will strive to identify cultural heritage to partner with emergency managers at the local what truths might be interesting to visitors and how and state level to protect our nation’s cultural heritage. they may or may not be the truths we work we who Ch a i r : Lori Foley, Director of Preservation Services, Northeast Document work in museums think about. Conservation Center, Andover, MA Co-Ch a i r s : Linda Norris, Managing Partner, Riverhill, Gina Minks, Imaging and Preservation Service Manager, Amigos Library Treadwell, NY and Ken Yellis, Principal, First Light Services, Dallas, TX Consulting, Newport, RI Mary Rogers, Coordinator, Collections Care and Emergency Programs, Heritage Preservation, Washington, DC
9:45 – 10:45 a m Morning Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall First-Time Attendee Reception Visitors’ Voices Coffee Break XX Room: MR 15 XX Room: Exhibit Hall First-time meeting attendees are invited to attend The AASLH Visitors’ Voices affinity group invites conference a special reception in their honor to meet seasoned participants to enjoy their morning coffee while talking with meeting attendees and get tips for getting the most others about audience research and evaluation in small museums. out of their annual meeting experience. Sponsored by Join us for informal, roundtable discussions in the Exhibit Hall AASLH Mentor Committee. to share ideas and learn more about surveying visitors and evaluating programs on a shoestring budget.
10:45 a m – 12 p m Ke y n o t e : Su s a n St a m b e r g XX Room: MR AB Traditional Cheyenne Blessing provided by Chief Gordon Yellowman Welcome by Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Jari Askins Funding for this program is provided by a grant from the Oklahoma Humanities Council and the Celebrity L e c ture Agen y We the People initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this public program do not necessarily represent those of OHC or NEH.
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T 12 – 1:15 p m S eptember 23 Luncheons Corporate History Directors Luncheon Small Museum OMA Standing Professional Luncheon Preregistration Required Luncheon Committees Luncheon Preregistration Required Cost: $30 Preregistration Required Preregistration Required Cost: $30 XX Room: MR 5 Cost: $30 Cost: $30 XX Room: MR 15 Directors and CEOs of XX Room: MR 14 XX Room: MR 20 Join the Corporate organizations of all sizes David Anderson, Visit with colleagues and History Museum and are invited to lunch for Executive Director of the meet new friends over lunch. Archives Affinity Group networking and discussion. Creek Council House The standing professional for lunch and meet other You’ll meet others who Museum, will take you on committees of OMA will professionals who work in face the same issues you the rollercoaster ride of hold informal business and the corporate history field. do on the job every day collaborations between networking meetings: Oklahoma Hear Dr. Bob Blackburn, and learn about AASLH small museums and their Registrars Association, Executive Director of initiatives that will benefit community partners. Oklahoma Native American the Oklahoma Historical your organization. Ch a i r : Stacy Klingler, Museum Professionals, Society, speak about his Ch a i r : David Donath, CEO, Assistant Director, Local History Oklahoma Membership and recently published book on Billings Farm and Museum, Services, Indiana Historical Development Association, and the Sonic Corporation Woodstock, VT, and Chair, Society, Indianapolis, IN Oklahoma Museum Educators. AASLH Council Ch a i r : Unette Lemke, Other networking opportunities Independent Museum are available as part of the Tribal Professional, Racine, WI Track.
1:30 – 2:45 p m Concurrent Sessions Achieving Board Excellence Digitizing the Civil War Engaging All Ages: A XX Room: MR 3 XX Room: MR 10 Discussion of Successful Family No trustee joins a board to fail, yet Learn more about Civil War Programming many fall short of what is needed. Sesquicentennial projects focusing XX Room: MR 4 Using a “Board Fundamentals on digitization as a way to encourage Help determine what great family Checklist,” attendees will discuss memory, preservation, and programs look like! Hear from strategies to maximize board documentation of the Civil War three institutions who have found effectiveness, covering structures, by bringing together items that are success with family programming. processes, and attitudes. Participants physically disconnected to reveal Participate in a discussion of will include directors who are using previously unknown stories. This characteristics of successful family the checklist to strengthen their session will provide tips for doing programs and come away with a boards. commemorative digitization projects, working theoretical framework. You’ll Co-Ch a i r s : John W. Durel, Ph.D., working with community groups gain fresh approaches to expanding Principal, Durel Consulting Partners/Qm2, and individuals, and sustaining your intergenerational audiences and Baltimore, MD and Anita N. Durel, CFRE, digital project beyond the life of the improving the bottom line. Principal, Durel Consulting Partners/Qm2, commemoration. Baltimore, MD Ch a i r : Sarah Watkins, Curator, USS Ch a i r : Jackie Barton, Manager, Outreach Constitution Museum, Boston, MA Sunnee O’Rork, Executive Director, and Field Services, Ohio Historical Society, Arizona Museum for Youth, Mesa, AZ Rebecca Crawford, Outreach Learning Columbus, OH Coordinator, USS Constitution Museum, Bill Tramposch, Executive Director, Jason Crabill, Manager, Preservation Boston, MA Nantucket Historical Association, Nantucket, and Access Services, Ohio Historical Society, MA Carolyn Nenart, Education and Programs Columbus, OH Director, Wenham Museum, Wenham, MA Karen Wiley, Executive Director, Louise Laura Drake Davis, CW 150 Legacy Heather Nielsen, Head of Community Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts, Project-Western Region, The Library of Lubbock, TX and Family Programs, Denver Art Museum, Virginia, Richmond, VA Denver, CO Barbara Franco, Executive Director, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA More 12 – 1:15 pm Sessions on Page 28
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T S eptember 23 1:30 - 2:45 p m Concurrent Sessions (continued) For Profit Nonprofits IDEA Roundtable XX Room: MR 12 XX Room: MR 9 The financial sustainability of historic sites is a continual The IDEA Roundtable provides an update on activities challenge; some non-profit organizations are strategically related to online encyclopedias, fosters discussion among working towards success through innovative and improved active and prospective encyclopedia projects, and serves as a revenue streams. You’ll learn how three sites have used forum for cross project collaboration. retail sales, licensing, events, programs, and rentals to Ch a i r : Douglas E. Barnett, Chief of Staff, University of Texas improve the bottom line as well as their steps to success and Libraries, Austin, TX major challenges. Ch a i r : Kenneth C. Turino, Manager of Community Engagement and Exhibitions, Historic New England, Boston, MA Jack Braunlein, Director, Lyndhurst, Tarrytown, NY Cindi Malinick, Director, Decatur House, Washington, DC Mummies, Marketing, and Media Madness Not Your Same Old Strategic Planning Process for XX Room: MR 11 Small Museums Examine the various ways museums market themselves to a XX Room: MR 2 wide audience in this technological age. Topics will include How does a small museum develop a better experience for websites, Facebook, YouTube, videos, and email blasts. The its patrons to learn about historic times? Through strategic session will focus on social media, specifically how to use planning, you will learn a process that uses short-survey Facebook outside the electronic box. responses and affinity diagrams to build a strategic plan Ch a i r : Delaynna Trim, Curator of Collections, Mabee-Gerrer developing maximum of vision, and participation, utilizing a Museum of Art, Shawnee, OK minimum of time. Daniel J. Lay, Preparator, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, Ch a i r : Cecil Carter, Community Development Director, Murray OK State College, Tishomingo, OK Donna Merkt, Curator of Education, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee, OK Partnering for Success Spotlight on Tribal Museums and Cultural Stars, Bars, and More Cars! XX Room: MR 1 Centers: Successful Case Studies Challenges and Opportunities in Developing successful XX Room: MR 18 Museum Planning partnerships is now more Tribal museums and cultural centers play XX Room: MR 19 than ever necessary for a vital role in sustaining cultural heritage Need to reinvent your exhibition most museums’ survival. and addressing issues of relevance to their program? Want to embody the Learn what partnerships communities. In order to support their local, state, and national historical can do for you and how to missions, IMLS’ Native American/Native narrative in your exhibits? Looking find a compatible partner. Hawaiian Museum Services grant program for practical solutions in designing The panel will present has funded more than 130 projects over exhibits that can compete for today’s case studies of successful the past five years that have had noticeable impact fragmented audience? Come explore museum partnerships in on tribal museum and cultural center activities. practical solutions to challenges in an action with governmental, Panelists will present their experiences on three ever changing museum world. corporate, and other successful projects in the areas of collections Ch a i r : Christy Spurlock, Assistant museum partners. management, exhibition development, and Professor/Curator, Kentucky Library and Ch a i r : Louise Howard, education as well as share successes and failures Museum/Western Kentucky University, Chief Curator, Naper related to implementing the program/projects. Bowling Green, KY Settlement, Naperville, IL Ch a i r : Sandra Narva, Senior Program Officer, Institute of Donna Parker, Associate Professor/Exhibits Dan DiSanto, Assistant to Museum and Library Services, Washington, DC Curator, Kentucky Library and Museum/ Western Kentucky University, Bowling the City Manager, City of Janine Bowechop, Executive Director, Makah Cultural and Green, KY Naperville, Naperville, IL Research Center, Neah Bay, WA Sandy Staebell, Assistant Professor/ Margaret L. Frank, Executive Sue Ellen Herne, Program Coordinator, Akwesasne Registrar/Collections Curator, Kentucky Director, Naper Settlement, Museum, Hogansburg, NY Naperville, IL Library and Museum/Western Kentucky Carey Tilley, Executive Director, Cherokee Heritage Center, University, Bowling Green, KY Gregory Vadney, Director, Tahlequah, OK The Stickley Museum, L. & J.G. Stickley, Inc., Manlius, NY
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T 2:45 – 3:45 p m S eptember 23 Afternoon Refreshment Break Exhibit Hall Educators Showcase in Exhibit Hall Ch a i r : Greg Hardison, Museum Theatre Coordinator, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY
4 – 5:15 p m Concurrent Sessions Civil Rights Fifty Years Later Debating the Rembrandt Rule: Digital Collections in the XX Room: MR 11 What is the Appropriate Use of Classroom and Beyond The decade ahead offers important Collections at Historic Sites? XX Room: MR 4 opportunities for us to remember XX Room: MR 16 and 17 The Museum of Anthropology created and honor the struggles and As historic sites face increasing an online database for its collection. accomplishments of the Civil Right pressure to attract audiences, They taught educators to use our era, from the sit-ins of 1960 to the affirm their relevancy, and develop database in a classroom, to develop assassination of Martin Luther sustainable operations, many are re- database curriculum, and to encourage King in 1968. Come share your thinking the role of the collection student database use for research commemoration plans and discuss how in the visitors’ experience. Is greater projects. The presentation will provide AASLH can encourage and support visitor access to our historic resources ideas to engage audiences through such initiatives in communities across an engaging way to interpret or is it a digitization and where funding can be the nation. dangerous threat to our preservation obtained for similar projects. Ch a i r : Julia Rose, Director, West Baton missions? Ch a i r : Kyle Elizabeth Bryner, Registrar Rouge Museum, Port Allen, LA Ch a i r : David A. Janssen, Vice President and Collections Manager, Museum of Barbara Franco, Executive Director, for Collections and Interpretation, Detroit Anthropology at Wake Forest University, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Historical Society, Detroit, MI Winston-Salem, NC Commission, Harrisburg, PA Kendra Dillard, Curator II, Governor’s Tina Smith, Educator, Museum of James B. Gardner, Senior Scholar, National Mansion State Park, Sacramento, CA Anthropology at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC Museum of American History, Smithsonian Ron M. Potvin, Assistant Director and Institution, Washington, DC Curator, John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Providence, RI Getting a Second Wind: Getting It Right: Designing and Managing a Governance and Training Making the Most of Successful Tribal Museum Store for Tired and Humorless Community Outreach XX Room: MR 19 Organizations XX Room: MR 10 When managed effectively, tribal museum XX Room: MR 3 Are you looking for a proficient stores can generate significant revenue, Is there a duller session topic and cost-effective way to provide an outlet for the creative efforts of than “good governance?” If build stronger more enduring tribal members, and supply hard-to-find you’re thinking we should title community connections in these items used in traditional arts and crafts. this “Spoonfuls of Castor Oil” hard economic times? This To help your store meet these objectives, then this session is for you. Your session will teach you how to this session features panelists from diverse, organization’s success depends deploy a well-trained army of but highly successful, tribal museums. The on strong leadership. So if enthusiastic volunteers to carry discussion will lead you through developing you’ve been avoiding difficult the message to a larger and more policies and procedures, identifying vendors of improvements, then try this–we’ll diverse audience. authentic American Indian inventory, developing use satire, sarcasm, and slapstick Ch a i r : Sandra Baker, Volunteer signature items, establishing satellite locations, to jumpstart your museum’s good Program Director, Senator John Heinz engaging tribal members to create consignment governance. History Center, Pittsburgh, PA opportunities, establishing an on-line presence, Ch a i r : Brian C. Crockett, HELP Terri Blanchette, Community and complying with The Indian Arts and Crafts Project Manager, Mid-America Arts Program Director, Senator John Heinz Act of 1990. Alliance, Albuquerque, NM History Center, Pittsburgh, PA Ch a i r : Rita Lara, Museum Director, Oneida Nation of Kay Osborne, HELP Field Expert/ Jeremy Burnworth, President, Wisconsin, Oneida, WI Director, Nonprofit Administration Fayette County Historical Society, Anne McCudden, Director, Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum, Program, Drury University, Springfield, Uniontown, PA Clewiston, FL MO Margaret Jackson, President, Christina Breault, Consultant, Spokane, WA Carla Patterson, HELP Field Expert/ Historical Society of Mt. Lebanon, Rural Development Educator, Auburn, NE Pittsburgh, PA Eva Williams, Curator, Indian Arts and Crafts Board, Southern Plains Indian Museum, Anadarko, OK Ken Schroeder, Director, Edgerton/ Explorit Center, Aurora, NE More 4 – 5:15 pm Sessions on Page 30
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T S eptember 23 4 – 5:15 p m Concurrent Sessions (continued) Mutual Goals: Mission vs. Money XX Room: MR 12 In this year’s Mutual Goals session, participants will explore the sometimes competing institutional goals of staying true to mission and earning revenue. Speakers from different types of organizations will explore how they find the balance between these and then open up the session to group discussion. Ch a i r : Rhonda Newton, Program Coordinator, Pennsylvania Heritage Society, Harrisburg, PA Norman O. Burns, II, Executive Director, Maymont Foundation, Richmond, VA Kari Watkins, Executive Director, Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, Oklahoma City, OK Native Voices: Using Audio Best Practices to Create Opportunities for Change: Ensuring Archival and Community History Program Survival in Tough Times XX Room: MR 18 XX Room: MR 2 Oral history methods pair the oldest type of his- How has the economic recession affected your archival/ torical inquiry with relatively modern technologies— history program, your staff, and your already limited audio and video recording. Using the on-the-ground resources? Many history professionals are facing reduced experiences gained through the Collaborative budgets and making difficult choices to maintain our Digitization’s IMLS-funded Sound Model Project programs. This session, sponsored by the Corporate that involved institutions in ten Western States, this History Affinity Group, will provide an opportunity for session will cover best practices for audio capture, the participants across all areas of interest to share their recent collecting process, organizing, interpreting, and using what efforts and new best practices with others in the field. you collect. The short film Speaking History: The Soapstone Ch a i r : Dianne Brown, CA, Corporate Archivist, The Procter and Prairie Oral History Project produced from these materials Gamble Company, Cincinnati, OH and will be shown and discussed as a tool for interpretation. John Harper, Corporate Historian, Chevron, San Ramon, CA Ch a i r : Leigh Grinstead, Digital Services Consultant, Lyrasis, Kenneth Schlesinger, Chief Librarian, Lehman College, Bronx, NY Atlanta, GA Brenda Martin, Ph.D., Cultural Heritage Consultant, Farmington, NM Opportunities for NEH Support What Should We Do? Utilizing Audience Research to XX Room: MR 9 Shape Exhibitions, Programming, and Marketing Come learn about support available from NEH for XX Room: MR 1 museums sand historical organizations as well as special The Atlanta History Center and National Civil Rights initiatives and funding trends. Emphasis will be on smaller Museum share how they are utilizing AASLH Visitors institutions. Presenters include NEH program officers as Count! results to shape institutional plans for a wide variety well as grant recipients. of actions—from day-to-day work plans, to marketing Ch a i r : Andrea Anderson, Senior Program Officer, Office of plans, to major renovation plans. Challenge Grants, National Endowment for the Humanities, Ch a i r : Casey Steadman, Chief Operating Officer, Atlanta History Washington, DC Center, Atlanta, GA Mary Downs, Senior Program Officer, Division of Preservation and Hillary Hardwick, Vice President, Marketing Communications, Access, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, VA Clay Lewis, Senior Program Officer, Division of Public Programs, Tracy Lauritzen Wright, Director of Administrative and Special National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC Projects, National Civil Rights Museum, Memphis, TN
5:45 – 6:30 p m Reception: Seminar for Historical Administration Preregistration Required, Cost: Free The SHA Alumni affinity group invites you to join SHA alumni and faculty at the annual SHA reception in celebrating SHA and in welcoming new SHA coordinator John Durel. If you are interested in learning more about the SHA program, this is the place for you!
6:30 – 9:30 p m Ev e n i n g Ev e n t One Hot Oklahoma Night! Cost: $45
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F 7 – 8:15 a m S eptember 24 Breakfasts Internet Digital Encyclopedia Alliance—IDEA Historic House Museums Preregistration Required Preregistration Required Cost: $20 Cost: $20 XX Room: MR 14 XX Room: MR 4 and 5 If you have an online encyclopedia program, or plan on Join historic house museum professionals for an engaging starting one in the future, then this breakfast is for you. Join discussion of current issues. James Vaughan, Vice President, IDEA for conversation, networking, and lots of ideas. The Stewardship of Historic Sites for the National Trust for program will include an update on digital projects across the Historic Preservation will speak about the opportunities and country as well as an update on the activities of AASLH’s challenges in the historic house field. IDEA group. Ch a i r : Kendra Dillard, Curator II, Governor’s Mansion State Ch a i r : Douglas E. Barnett, Chief of Staff, University of Texas Historic Park, Sacramento, CA Libraries, Austin, TX
8:30 – 9:45 a m Concurrent Sessions Advocacy for History Organizations Answering the Questions You Don’t Want People to Ask XX Room: MR 3 XX Room: MR 11 AASLH is a leading advocate for increased Often the uncomplimentary or uncomfortable aspects of an federal funding for history organizations. At the institution’s history or field draw the most attention. This panel will heart of this effort is a coalition of over sixty discuss strategies for crafting good answers to tough questions. This organizations dedicated to ensuring funds reach session is sponsored by the Court and Legal History Group. America’s museums. Now more than ever, it is Ch a i r : Dr. Elizabeth R. Osborn, Assistant to the Chief Justice for Court History important that you do your part to help. Attend and Public Education, Supreme Court of Indiana, Indianapolis, IN this session to learn about our successes, and Laurie Baty, Senior Director of Museum Programs, National Law Enforcement find out ways we can work together to increase Museum, Washington, DC funding, strengthen exisiting national programs, CJ Brafford, Executive Director, Ute Indian Museum, Montrose, CO and advance professionalism in the field. Linnea Grim, Director of Education and Visitor Programs, Thomas Jefferson Ch a i r : Terry Davis, President and CEO, AASLH, Foundation/Monticello, Charlottesville, VA Nashville, TN Engaging Students and From Song to Canvas: Map Art Mythbusters: Beyond American Indian Teachers Through Collections of the Zuni Advisory Committees XX Room: MR 9 XX Room: MR 1 XX Room: MR 16 and 17 Participants will learn about Zuni and other indigenous To help your organization build evaluation-tested educational peoples have always had rapport, obtain deeper information, programming from two state maps. The maps are in and create strong liaisons with historical societies that connect K-12 songs, prayers, painted on American Indians and other cultural audiences to collections. Collections- ceramics, and etched in groups, hear how successful museums based education can happen both stone. Over the past 500 have embarked on developing inside an organization and through years these maps have largely advisory committees or undertaken outreach activities. Learn about what been replaced with new maps consultations. It is important to understand worked and what didn’t and how to with places renamed in foreign expectations, sensitivities, and needs of not apply these methods to collections of languages. In this session only the people you’ll work with, but to historical organizations. participants will learn articulate your own expectations as well, and Ch a i r : Jody Blankenship, Director of how A:shiwi A:wan Museum to be open to extra benefits that may occur. Education, Kentucky Historical Society, and Heritage Center works with Ch a i r : Karen Coody Cooper, Program Frankfort, KY Zuni artists to create map art that Coordinator, Cherokee Heritage Center, Tahlequah, OK Mike Deetsch, Interpretive Education communicates the nature and Dan Provo, Director, Oklahoma History Center, Administrator, Kentucky Historical Society, relative arrangements of places and Oklahoma City, OK Frankfort, KY physical features, Zuni culture, and Gena Timberman, Executive Director, Native Stacia Kuceyeski, Unit Manager, diverse ways of seeing and knowing. American Cultural and Educational Authority, Faculty Services, Ohio Historical Society, Oklahoma City, OK Columbus, OH Ch a i r : Jim Enote, Executive Director, A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Gordon Yellowman, Instructor, Cheyenne and Megan Wood, Unit Manager, Education Center, Zuni, NM. Arapaho Tribes Department of Education, El Reno, OK Program and Partnerships, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, OH More 8:30 – 9:45 am Sessions on Page 32
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F S eptember 24 8:30 – 9:45 a m Concurrent Sessions (continued) Partners in Preservation: AIC and You Shared Spaces Roundtable XX Room: MR 18 XX Room: MR 2 This session will assist historical organizations in providing a safe Many museums share space with other entities environment and proper care for their collections by showcasing how and have demands beyond their core mission. AIC can be their partner in preservation. AIC and our 3,500 members This session will explore those issues and how can assist you with collections care issues and disaster planning—no an affinity group can help institutions meet these matter the size of your organization. challenges. We will be evaluating how the State Ch a i r : Ruth Seyler, Membership and Meetings Director, American Institute for Capitol Affinity group can be reinvented to Conservation, Washington, DC support a broader spectrum of institutions. Ann Boulton, Objects Conservator, Edmond, OK Ch a i r : Kurt Senn, Deputy Director, William J. Clinton Lori Foley, Director of Preservation Services, Northeast Document Conservation Presidential Library, Little Rock, AR Center, Andover, MA Bethany Hawkins, Program Associate, AASLH, Anne Murray, Textile Conservator, Murray Conservation Services, Oklahoma City, OK Nashville, TN Small Museums, Big Impact Weathering the Storm: Memorializing What XX Room: MR 12 Has Been Lost Representatives from successful small museums in Texas and Oklahoma XX Room: MR 19 will serve as examples of small museums that use their resources wisely Museums with memorial collections have unique and have a big impact in their communities. Topics highlighted are ethical considerations regarding use and care funding, social media, events, and school programs. These organizations of collections. This session will define what serve as models of how small museums can seize the winds of memorial museums are and the ways they relate opportunity and expand the impact their museums have locally. to the larger museum community, examining Ch a i r : Laura Casey, State Coordinator, Museum Services Program, Texas two institutions with differing missions: The Historical Commission, Austin, TX Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, Nancy Coggins, Communication Director, Harn Homestead Museum, Oklahoma and the National Law Enforcement Museum. City, OK Ch a i r : Vanya Scott, Registrar/Collections Manager, Chris Dyer, Executive Director, Arts Council of Brazos Valley, College Station, TX National Law Enforcement Museum, Washington, DC Trapper Heglin, General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute and Museum, Helen Stiefmiller, Collections Manager, Oklahoma City Hobart, OK National Memorial and Museum, Oklahoma City, OK What’s Radical About Radical Trust? Writing and Publishing on Museum XX Room: MR 10 Collections Allowing your users to contribute content to your website requires XX Room: MR 15 radical trust. This concept, gaining steam with the popularity of Interested in writing and publishing an article or social media tools, naturally raises concern in history organizations. book on an aspect of your museum’s collections? It threatens authoritative voice and weakens control. Yet, it offers This session provides a practical step-by-step opportunities to reach and engage new audiences. Join us as we discuss approach on how to be successful at selecting the challenges of radical trust. a topic, research, writing and finding the best Ch a i r : Tim Grove, Acting Director of Education, National Air and Space publisher for your project. Museum, Washington, DC Ch a i r : Gordon A. Blaker, Curator, U.S. Army Michael Frohlich, Multimedia Developer/Web Manager, State Historical Society Artillery Museum, Ft. Sill, OK of North Dakota, Bismarck, ND Myers Brown, Curator of History and Extension Services, James B. Gardner, Senior Scholar, National Museum of American History, Tennessee State Museum, Nashville, TN Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Gordon Jones, Senior Military Historian and Curator, Kent Whitworth, Executive Director, Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA
9:45 – 10:45 a m Morning Refreshment Break in the Exhibit Hall
10:45 – 12 p m Pl e n a r y : Ge r a r d Ba k e r XX Room: MR AB PBS .org
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F 12 – 1 p m S eptember 24 Luncheons Networking and AASLH Membership Court and Legal History Luncheon Luncheon Preregistration Required, Cost: $30 Cost: Free XX Room: MR 14 XX Room: Exhibit Hall This affinity group is comprised of individuals working in state legal history Open to all, this is your chance to check societies, circuit court libraries, and the U.S. Supreme Court Historical out the latest and greatest products Society. Enjoy lunch and hear Professor Lindsay G. Robertson, Judge Haskell available in the exhibit hall while A. Holloman Professor of Law and Sam K. Viersen, Jr. Presidential Professor, grabbing a complimentary lunch. University of Oklahoma College of Law speak on the topic of Native Americans and the Law.
12 – 1:45 p m Oklahoma Museums Association Annual Meeting Luncheon and Awards Preregistration Required, Cost: $30 Room: MR 4 and 5 Enjoy a keynote address by the first tribally enrolled Native American astronaut to fly on a Shuttle mission, former NASA astronaut John B. Herrington, Commander, USN (Ret). Herrington, who was born in Oklahoma and is a member of the Chickasaw Nation, flew on STS-113, a space station construction and crew exchange mission in 2002, and performed three spacewalks. The luncheon will conclude with the OMA Awards Program honoring
the excellence and quality of projects accomplished by OMA institutional members. N A S With support from the Oklahoma Arts Council, Oklahoma City Zoological Park, Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, Oklahoma City National Memorial and Museum, Insitute of Museum and Library Services, Oklahoma Department of Libraries, The Kerr Foundation, Inc., Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, and the Chickasaw Nation.
1 – 1:45 p m AASLH Meeting of the Membership XX Room: MR AB
2 – 3:15 p m Concurrent Sessions Building Partnerships Between Collections Inventories: Turning a Creating Experiences Visitors Museums and Schools: National Tornado into a Breeze and Communities Value History Day in Dallas XX Room: MR 1 XX Room: MR 19 XX Room: MR 18 This session provides an overview As museums look for This session highlights a successful model of inventory procedures focusing on opportunities to create for building and strengthening partnerships small and volunteer-run museums. experiences that the public between a variety of museums and local It will discuss how to inventory, values, two key strategies emerge. schools in cooperation with National information to and not to include, Discover how creating a case for History Day. Panelists will provide a brief and how to reconcile your inventory. support can lead to greater public overview of History Day and share how Panelists will discuss how they value and how applying results museums and schools came together to approached their projects, how they of visitor research can lead to build a thriving program in Dallas, TX. resolved any associated problems, and more responsive and engaging Ch a i r : Stephen Cure, Director of Educational the lessons learned. experiences that visitors and Services, Texas State Historical Association, Denton, TX Ch a i r : Nancy Lowe-Clark, Independent community value. C. Dealey Campbell, Curator of Education, Contractor, ITIN Museum Services, Mustang, Ch a i r : Dale Jones, Principal, Making Dallas Historical Society, Dallas, TX OK History Connections, Glenwood, MD Sharron Wilkins Conrad, Curator of Education, Jennifer Holt, Curator, Will Rogers Anita Durel, Partner, Durel The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza, Dallas, TX Memorial Museum, Claremore, OK Consulting Partners, Baltimore, MD Steffanie Evans, Education and Programs Director, Kristin Mravinec, Curator, Greater Conny C. Graft, Consultant, Old Red Museum of Dallas County History and Southwest Historical Museum, Ardmore, OK Williamsburg, VA Culture, Dallas, TX Heidi Vaughn, Director, Laboratory of Ellen Spear, President and CEO, Kim Fortney, Deputy Director, National History History Museum, University of Central Hancock Shaker Village, Pittsfield, MA Day, College Park, MD Oklahoma, Edmond, OK More 2 – 3:15 pm Sessions on Page 34
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F S eptember 24 2 – 3:15 p m Concurrent Sessions (continued) Dealing with Tragedy: Museums and Memorialization Determining the Effectiveness of School Programs: XX Room: MR 16 and 17 A Strategy for All The makeshift memorial erected after the Oklahoma City XX Room: MR 10 bombing in 1995 arguably marked a fundamental shift in This session presents two institutions’ strategies for the public response to traumatic death. This session will evaluating school programs and specific ways in which each explore how spontaneous expressions of grief have come uses or will use the evaluation findings. Programming is to play more prominent roles in public life and pose new often used to connect with and educate specific audiences; challenges to our roles and responsibilities as museums and thus, it is important to ensure that these programs are as historical organizations. effective as possible. Ch a i r : James B. Gardner, Senior Scholar, National Museum of Ch a i r : Amanda Krantz, Research Associate, Randi Korn and American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Associates, Inc., Alexandria, VA Bill Bryans, Associate Professor of History, Oklahoma State University, Andrea Del Valle, Director of Education, Brooklyn Historical Society, Stillwater, OK Brooklyn, NY Lorena Donohue, Deputy Director/Curator, Littleton Museum, Franny Kent, Director of the Frederick A.O. Schwarz Children’s Littleton, CO Center, Museum of the City of New York, New York, NY Marilyn Zoidis, Director, Historical Resources, The Henry Ford, Dearborn, MI Gen X Leadership Considered How SMART Phones Can Impact Historical XX Room: MR 3 Organizations During the next decade, the history field will witness a XX Room: MR 11 leadership shift as Baby Boomers retire and Gen Xers In an environment of shrinking resources where every assume leadership roles. Panelists will briefly share their operational dollar counts more than ever, historical personal leadership journeys which will set the stage for a organizations need an efficient way to deliver interpretive frank and solution-oriented discussion about the challenges messages, gather visitor feedback, create interactive exhibits, presented by generational leadership changes. market public programs, build sponsorship partners, and Ch a i r : Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, CEO, Abbe Museum, Bar collect donations. Is the SMART phone the answer to these Harbor, ME needs? D. Stephen Elliott, President, New York State Historical Association Ch a i r : Bill Firstenberger, Executive Director, Ruthmere, Elkhart, IN and the Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown, NY Dustin Potter, Director of Information Technology, Oklahoma City Paul Levengood, President/CEO, Virginia Historical Society, National Memorial and Museum, Oklahoma City, OK Richmond, VA Rob Pyles, Creative Director, Audissey Media, Boston, MA Tonya M. Matthews, Ph.D., Vice President for Museums, Christopher Shires, Director of Education, Edsel and Eleanor Ford Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH House, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI Interpreting Slavery and the Slave Trade at Northern Preserving Native American Collections: Resources Historic Sites, Part I and Opportunities XX Room: MR 2 XX Room: MR 12 Despite concerns over public backlash and reluctance to Looking for strategies to preserve your American contradict the celebratory narratives of their founders, Indian archival and museum collections? Join staff northern historic sites are coming to terms with their slavery/ of federal funding agencies and conservation experts slave trade histories. Following clips from the filmTraces of the to hear about ways your institution can improve its Trade: A Story from the Deep North, which sheds light on the ability to preserve and care for its collections. Learn north’s complicity in slavery, three historic sites will share their effective strategies for project development, and process of developing narratives of historical inclusiveness. hear about resources for technical assistance, Ch a i r : Kristin Gallas, Director of Education and Public History, Ebb opportunities for partnering, and sources of federal funding Pod/Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North, Cambridge, MA for the preservation and care of historic collections. Dr. Barbara Mathews, Director of Academic Programs, Deerfield Ch a i r : Mary Downs, Senior Program Officer, National Endowment Teachers’ Center of the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, for the Humanities, Washington, DC Deerfield, MA Neil Cockerline, Director of Preservation Services, Midwest Art Dr. Darlene Marshall, Lead Historian, Deerfield Teachers’ Center of Conservation Center, Minneapolis, MN the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA Rita Lara, Director, Oneida Nation Museum, DePere, WI Phillip Seitz, Curator of History and Fermentation, Cliveden of the Beth Joffrion, Senior Program Officer, Division of Preservation and National Trust, Philadelphia, PA Access, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC Thom Thacker, Site Director, Philipsburg Manor of Historic Hudson Sandra Narva, Senior Program Officer, Institute of Museum and Valley, Sleepy Hollow, NY Library Services, Washington, DC Dan Stokes, Director for State Programs, National Historical Records and Publications Commission, Washington, DC
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F 2 – 3:15 p m S eptember 24 Concurrent Sessions (continued) Using Resources Wisely: Training and Where Do I Turn for Help? New Online Resources for Evaluating Volunteers Museum Professionals XX Room: MR 9 XX Room: MR 15 Are you looking for ways to make better use of Looking for access to free, online resources to help you get through volunteers? This session will provide a framework today’s challenging times—and plan for the future? Learn about for determining which tasks are suited to volunteers several new projects designed to help board and staff at museums and to make sure that these unpaid staff are and historical societies both big and small. Projects include the CT appropriately trained, supervised, and evaluated. Humanities Council’s Heritage Resource Center, the AAM’s Center The session will highlight collections, education, for the Future of Museums, and the Public Humanities Clinic at visitor services, and archives volunteers. the John Nicholas Brown Center at Brown University. Ch a i r : Rebecca Martin, Volunteer and Tour Coordinator, Ch a i r : Scott Wands, Heritage Resource Center and Field Services Director, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC Connecticut Humanities Council, Middletown, CT Tracy Bryan, Site Manager, Virginia House, Virginia Elizabeth Merritt, Founding Director, Center for the Future of Museums, Historical Society, Richmond, VA American Association of Museums, Washington, DC Steve Hawkins, Volunteer Coordinator/Research Coordinator, Ron M. Potvin, Assistant Director and Curator, John Nicholas Brown Center Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma City, OK for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Brown University, Providence, RI
3:15 – 4 p m Afternoon Refreshment Break and AASLH Award Winner Showcase in the Exhibit Hall
4 – 5:15 p m Concurrent Sessions Addressing 21st Century Skills in Historical Burdens, Benefits, and Balance:U niversity-Based Organizations Historic House Museums XX Room: MR 3 XX Room: MR 12 21st Century Skills, a concept embraced by the national University based house museums are unique in governance, education and business communities, is the latest trend mission and operation. The round table will discuss issues, burdens effecting K-16 and lifelong learning; yet historical and benefits and share what works and what doesn’t in the present organizations have been slow to embrace this concept. climate of change for museums and universities. How can we This session will introduce participants to 21st Century best balance efforts toward both university and museum missions? Skills, demonstrate examples of how it is beginning to Ch a i r : KrisAnn Sullivan, Director, Frank House, University of Nebraska at be conceptualized and used, and report on resources Kearney, Kearney, NE available through IMLS to support such endeavors. John Lancaster, Historic House Consultant, Franklin, TN Ch a i r : Marsha Semmel, Acting Director, Institute for Matt Davis, Curator of Education, Old Governor’s Mansion, Milledgeville, Museum and Library Services, Washington, DC GA The Essential Frameworks of Informal Interpreting Slavery and the Slave Trade at Northern Historic Learning Sites, Part II XX Room: MR 15 XX Room: MR 2 A recent report from the National Academies By not interpreting their stories of slavery/slave trade, many historic provides museums of all disciplines with sites are hiding a critical piece of their site’s legacy. The second part of documented evidence of the effectiveness the session invites attendees to work in small groups to strategize and of learning in informal settings. This is vital problem solve about their own challenges and opportunities in developing information for museum leadership. It draws interpretive initiatives about slavery/slave trade at their site. Attendance at from a decade of research into learning in Part I is not necessary to participate in Part II’s dialogue—all are welcome. informal science institutions to build a case Ch a i r : Kristin Gallas, Director of Education and Public History, Ebb Pod/Traces of the that is readily transferrable to museums of Trade: A Story from the Deep North, Cambridge, MA all disciplines. This session will share the six Dr. Barbara Mathews, Director of Academic Programs, Deerfield Teachers’ Center of the frameworks of learning and facilitate an open Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA forum to discuss how they apply to history Dr. Darlene Marshall, Lead Historian, Deerfield Teachers’ Center of the Pocumtuck museums, both as guidelines for education Valley Memorial Association, Deerfield, MA and for advocacy. Phillip Seitz, Curator of History and Fermentation, Cliveden of the National Trust, Philadelphia, PA Ch a i r : Beverly Sheppard, Executive Director, Institute for Learning Innovation, Edgewater, MD Thom Thacker, Site Director, Philipsburg Manor of Historic Hudson Valley, Sleepy Hollow, NY
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F S eptember 24 4 – 5:15 p m Concurrent Sessions (continued) Opportunity All Around: Growing the Museum Field, Cultivating Programming and Interpreting Military Young Professionals, Producing Great Work History XX Room: MR 9 XX Room: MR 19 Panelists will discuss producing work reflective of best practices in the Whatever the available venue, those responsible museum profession as an opportunity to collaborate with universities for the utilization of military collections and and students. Each panelist will tie her unique perspective as a museum archives face some interesting challenges. This professional, university professional, and a student intern to both the session will explore the topics of collections successes and challenges of their own real-life collaborations. assessment, exhibit planning, audience access/ Ch a i r : Betsy Bowers, Director of Education and Visitor Experiences, National Law participation and effective interpretation. Enforcement Museum, Washington, DC Ch a i r : Steven L. Stearns, Field Programs Curator, Jeni Ashton, Associate Curator, National Law Enforcement Museum, Washington, DC National Guard Bureau, Alexandria, VA Judy Cannavo, Intern, University of Oklahoma, Bangor, PA Doug Harman, President, Hartman Historical Kathleen Franz, Associate Professor and Director of Public History, American Services, Omaha, NE University, Washington, DC Colonel (Ret.) Doug Jacobs, Director, Museum of the Kansas National Guard, Topeka, KS Remembering the Past, Building for the Future: How To Develop Taking Your Museum to the Next Level and Implement A Historically Significant Time Capsule Project XX Room: MR 18 XX Room: MR 16 and 17 There are a variety of standards programs Time capsules can be of limited value to future historians if they available to help museums become stronger do not contain items that describe the daily lives of the people more sustainable institutions from AAM’s who created them. This session will explore how the Chickasaw Accreditation and Museum Assessment Nation collected personal notes, photographs, documents, and Programs to AASLH’s StEPs program. Learn artifacts for the Ittapatkachi Time Capsule (to be pieced together). more about standards and best practices, how Presenters will share how they successfully engaged the Citizens each of the programs use the standards and of the Chickasaw Nation in the sharing of family and tribal the benefits of the programs and hear from history, how this information will commemorate the opening of the museums that have gone through the programs. Chickasaw Cultural Center, and how the materials will be used when the Ch a i r : Jill Connors-Joyner, Assistant Director, time capsule is opened fifty years in the future. Preservation issues related Museum Assessment Program, AAM, Washington, DC to time capsules will be covered as well. Flavia Cigliano, Executive Director, Nichols House Museum, Boston, MA Ch a i r : Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Administrator, Chickasaw Nation Division of History and Culture, Ada, OK Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager, AASLH, Michelle Cooke, Chickasaw Nation Division of History and Culture, Ada, OK Jefferson City, MO Sherelyn Ogden, Head of Conservation, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN Ann Lawless, Executive Director, American Precision Museum, Windsor, VT Janet Reubin, Project Manager, Ittapatkachi Time Capsule, Ada, OK Using CollectiveAccess to Manage Collections: A Case Study Web Usability Lab XX Room: MR 11 XX Room: MR 10 The Missouri History Museum has begun using the application, Collective- Usability is one of the easiest functions of a Access, to manage all 3d objects, archives, photos/prints, and moving website to evaluate, yet often we do not take image collections. This panel presentation will showcase the successes the time to do it. This session will model a very and pitfalls of transferring multiple data bases into one accessible source. easy and fun way to evaluate usability for your Ch a i r : Christopher Gordon, Director of Library and Collections, Missouri History institution’s website. Museum, St. Louis, MO Ch a i r : Michael Frohlich, Multimedia Developer/ Steven Call, Registrar, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, MO Web Manager, State Historical Society of North Dakota, David Henry, Web Developer, Missouri History Museum, St. Louis, MO Bismarck, ND Seth Kaufman, Founder and Software Developer, Whirl-i-Gig, New York, NY Tim Grove, Acting Director of Education, National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC
6:30 – 9:30 p m Leadership in History Awards Banquet XXRoom: MR AB Cost $55
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S 9 – 10:15 a m S eptember 25 Concurrent Sessions Challenges and Change: Compelling Stories + Creative Engaging the Problematic Past Historic House Museums Interpretation: Two Models for XX Room: MR 10 Re-evaluate Increased Community Engagement Sponsored by the National Council XX Room: MR 12 XX Room: MR 2 on Public History, this panel analyzes With adversity comes opportunity. Historical organizations must actively the opportunities for acknowledging Many historic house museums and critically assess their mission and difficult and controversial chapters of today face closure as state and offerings in an effort to remain relevant the past at historic sites and museums. local support has fallen victim and engage their communities. Staff from Drawing on their first-hand experiences to the current economic crisis. the Indiana Historical Society (IHS) in the trenches of public history, Others are forced to re-evaluate and the Las Cruces Railroad Museum, panelists will share their ideas for their fundraising, grants writing, NM (LCRRM,) will share their stories constructive ways to engage, rather than educational programs and even of recent institutional review and to avoid, problematical history. their mission. This roundtable will revitalization. Ch a i r : Professor Robert Weyeneth, Department of History, University of South discuss how several historic house Ch a i r : Trina Nelson Thomas, Senior museums have met the challenge. Director, Public Programs, Indiana Historical Carolina, Columbia, SC Rebekah Dobrasko, Historian, South Ch a i r : Kendra Dillard, Senior Society, Indianapolis, IN Carolina Department of Archives and History, Curator, California State Parks, Stephanie Long, Senior Curator of Collections, Columbia, SC Sacramento, CA City of Las Cruces Museum System, Las Cruces, Marty Matthews, Curator of Research, Jamie Credle, Director, Isaiah NM North Carolina Division of State Historic Sites, Davenport House Museum/Historic Eloise Scroggins, Exhibit Developer, Indiana Raleigh, NC Savannah Foundation, Savannah, GA Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN Angela Reed, Historian, Historic Sites and Lynda Waggoner, Director, Rebecca Slaughter, Assistant Director, Las Structures Program, Texas Parks and Wildlife Fallingwater, Mill Run, PA Cruces Railroad Museum, Las Cruces, NM Department, Austin, TX Harnessing the Winds of Opportunity: Creating the Best Fit for How to Involve Your Constituency in Collections in the Space You Have Doing Local History XX Room: MR 3 XX Room: MR 14 Collections are at the core of many institutions, but staff must often work “All history is local”—it happened here. “backwards” into space provided to make them fit. For the new History Important issues played out here. Students, Colorado Center, a process was needed, and efficiency was critical in immigrants, feminists, etc., can write the developing a practical plan for collections storage and workspace. Learn history of your community in ways that about the tools used to successfully accomplish this. involve them with your site and your site Ch a i r : Elisa Phelps, Director of Collections and Library Divisions, Colorado Historical with important issues, to the benefit of all. Society, Denver, CO Find out more by attending this session by Walter Crimm, AIA, LEED AP, Director, Cultural Practice Group, EwingCole, the author of Lies Across America: What Our Philadelphia, PA Historic Sites Get Wrong. Todd Topper, Director of Collections Management, Colorado Historical Society, Denver, CO Ch a i r : Jim Loewen, Author, Washington, DC Lessons from the Road Local History, Maine History, and Beyond: the New XX Room: MR 9 Maine Memory Network Explore best practices learned from NEH On the Road, XX Room: MR 11 a collaborative initiative started in 2004to help broaden This session explores two new Maine Memory Network the reach of NEH scholarship in to local communities (www.mainememory.net) initiatives: Maine History Online, nationwide. Share insights on project innovations and a comprehensive state history told through scholarly essays challenges from multiple viewpoints, including an and online exhibits, and the Maine Community Heritage originating curator, exhibition designers, and an NEH Project, a program that mobilizes local schools, historical program officer. societies, and libraries to work together to explore and share Ch a i r : Leslie A. Przybylek, Curator of Humanities Exhibitions/ their communities’ history. Project Manager—NEH On the Road, Mid-America Arts Alliance, Ch a i r : Stephen Bromage, Assistant Director, Maine Historical Kansas City, MO Society, Portland, ME Clay Lewis, Senior Program Officer, Division of Public Programs, Elizabeth De Wolfe, Professor of History, University of New National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC England, Biddeford, ME Joel Gaeddert, Exhibit Designer, Flint Hills Design, North Newton, KS Candace Kanes, Curator/Historian, Maine Memory Network, Maine Anne Morand, Chief Curator, C.M. Russell Museum, Great Falls, MT Historical Society, Portland, ME Chuck Regier, Curator of Exhibits, Kauffmann Museum, North Larissa Vigue Picard, Community Partnership Coordinator, Maine Newton, KS Historical Society, Portland, ME More 9 – 10:15 am Sessions on Page 38
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S S eptember 25 9 – 10:15 a m Concurrent Sessions (continued) The Museum Different: Sustaining Advisory Relationships We Just Don’t Have the Money: Comparing Native Center Models Between Historical Organizations How to Protect Visitors, Staff, and with Museum Models, Part I and American Indian Nations Collections with Reduced Staff XX Room: MR 18 XX Room: MR 16 and 17 and Budgets How can object-focused This session will present XX Room: MR 4 mainstream institutions benefit different models of working Budget cuts, reduced staff, and hiring from the knowledge gained with American Indian freezes are more prevalent than by community-focused Native Advisory panels to inform the ever, and yet the duty to protect has cultural centers? How can development of exhibitions, not gone away. In fact, it has been established institutions move programs, curriculum and elevated because of heightened fears forward by looking back partnerships. The panelists will and escalated threats to public safety. to see what has been lost or left share experiences from national, state So how does the astute administrator behind? This half-day workshop and reservation museums that reflect balance the need to provide a safe explores the Museum Different a wide spectrum of engagement with environment with a lack of funds and (a concept noted by the National tribal governments, native artists, personnel? Museum of the American Indian) as a tribal historic preservation officers, and Ch a i r : David Dagg, CIPM, Head of potential model for any museum that individual advisors. Security and Facility Operations, Sam Noble wants to focus on community needs. Ch a i r : Tim Hoogland, Director of Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, It will highlight differences between Education Outreach Programs, Minnesota Norman, OK mainstream and Native Center Historical Society, St. Paul, MN Steven P. Layne, CPP, CIPM, CIPI, models, apply Native community- White Wolf James, Associate Curator of Founding Director, International Foundation for Cultural Property Protection, Denver, CO focused ideas to problem-solving, Native American Art, History, and Culture, and provide participants with the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Wester Art, Indianapolis, IN opportunity of transformation through Jeff Savage, Director, Fond du Lac Cultural exercises, discussion, and seeking Center and Museum, Fond du Lac, WI solutions to needs they identify Travis Zimmerman, Site Manager, Mille improve museum models. Lacs Indian Museum and Trading Post, Ch a i r : Karen Coody Cooper, Cherokee Onamia, MN Heritage Center, Tahlequah, OK Jill Norwood, Community Services Specialist, National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, DC
10:15 – 10:45 a m Morning Break with Refreshments in Foyer
10:45 a m – 12 p m Concurrent Sessions 2011 Annual Meeting Roundtable Building Community Connections: Collaborations for the 21st XX Room: MR 5 Century We want to hear from you! The committee XX Room: MR 12 chairs for the 2011 AASLH Annual Meeting in This session will discuss how museums can successfully collaborate Richmond, VA, September 14-17, want to hear with community and school organizations to create dynamic projects your ideas for making the next meeting better. that reflect the collections and missions of all involved.U sing examples What did you like about the meeting? What of such projects both current and past the session will highlight the should we have done differently? Members of elements needed to make these projects come alive. the 2011 Annual Meeting program committee Ch a i r : Scott Strainge, Curriculum Coordinator for the Humanities, Timberlane should attend. All meeting attendees are Regional High School, Plaistow, NH welcome. Stephen Bartkus, Curator, Gunn Memorial Library and Museum, Washington, CT Ch a i r : Julia Rose, Director, West Baton Rouge Eric Constantineau, Teacher, Timberlane Regional High School, Plaistow, NH Museum, Port Allen, LA Joshua Silveira, Teacher, Timberlane Regional High School, Plaistow, NH Paul Levengood, President/CEO, Virginia Historical Kenneth C. Turino, Manager of Community Engagement and Exhibitions, Historic Society, Richmond, VA New England, Boston, MA
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S 10:45 a m – 12 p m S eptember 25 Concurrent Sessions (continued) Calculating Risk: Using Change as Opportunity: Lessons of Handling Controversial Topics Project Management Skills Leadership Transitions XX Room: MR 14 to Bring Home a Successful XX Room: MR 4 Historic sites can treat Project Changes of leadership necessarily impact the controversial topics, indeed, XX Room: MR 11 day-to-day functioning of staff throughout by omitting them they already This session will demonstrate the organization; often new leaders institute do. They can move beyond strategies for planning and far-reaching organizational transformation silence to handle difficult issues implementing risk management as well. In this session, panelists from three like slavery, haves/have nots, during the life cycle of a project organizations explore their experiences of sexual orientation, and racial as a normal and necessary change brought on by a new executive director. exclusion. Explore ideas for component of successful project Ch a i r : Susan Ferentinos, Public History Manager, handling controversy including management in the history field. Organization of American Historians, Bloomington, IN exhibit advisory boards, multiple Ch a i r : Steve Hoskins, Project Carol Anne Baker Lajoie, Grants Officer, Virginia viewpoints, and visitor comments. Director, Project Management for History Historical Society, Richmond, VA Ch a i r : Jim Loewen, Author, Professionals, AASLH, Nashville, TN David Janssen, Vice President of Collections and Washington, DC Interpretation, Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI The Museum Different: Comparing Native Center Neighborhood Collaboration: Building Professional Models with Museum Models, Part II Development Workshops Together XX Room: MR 18 XX Room: MR 9 This half-day workshop explores the Museum As museum neighbors that focus on similar historic content, Different (a concept noted by the National Museum the institutions on this panel developed a joint professional of the American Indian) as a potential model for any development workshop for teachers grades K–12. This museum that wants to focus on community needs. It session will provide practical advice on how museum will highlight differences between mainstream and institutions, working with limited budgets and staff can Native Center models, apply Native community- collaborate to reach broader audiences and address larger focused ideas to problem-solving, and provide community needs. The session will also model best practices participants with the opportunity of transformation through in professional development workshops, including teaching exercises, discussion, and seeking solutions to needs they strategies for oral interpretation and primary source analysis. identify improve museum models. Ch a i r : Talia Mosconi, Education Director, Tudor Place Historic Ch a i r : Karen Coody Cooper, Cherokee Heritage Center, House and Garden, Washington, DC Tahlequah, OK Callie Hawkins, Education Coordinator, President Lincoln’s Cottage, Jill Norwood, Community Services Specialist, National Museum of the Washington, DC American Indian, Washington, DC Sarah Jencks, Education Director, Ford’s Theatre Society, Washington, DC Of the Student, By the Opportunities and Applications: Students Why Not Volunteers? Student, For the Student Research Local History Developing Staff and XX Room: MR 10 XX Room: MR 3 Volunteer Partnerships Looking for ways to involve youth Museum Studies students present their research XX Chair: MR 2 in local historic preservation? Find on local history including methods used, Taking on the responsibility of out how youth around the country difficulties, rewarding experiences, and lessons utilizing volunteer services can use cutting-edge technology, learned. The students will present examples place stress on staff members. This primary source documents and of their research and discuss how it applies to session intends to identify those experiential learning to bring museum work and how local historical societies stressors and break down barriers lessons of history to their peers. can benefit from collaborations with universities and misconceptions paid museum While the words and events may and the knowledge and skills of museum studies staff may have in using volunteers. be familiar, the interpretation is and public history students. Ch a i r : Robbin Davis, Volunteer fresh and all their own. Co-Ch a i r s : Dr. Carolyn Pool, History/Museum and Marketing Manager, Oklahoma Ch a i r : Ann Pritzlaff, Producer, Studies Program, University of Central Oklahoma, Historical Society, Oklahoma City, OK Colorado Youth Summit, Colorado Edmond, OK, and Heidi Vaughn, Director, Laboratory Michael Bell, Curator of Collections, Preservation, Inc., Denver, CO of History Museum, University of Central Oklahoma, Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma Michelle Pearson, Teacher, Hulstrom Edmond, OK City, OK Options K-8 School, Northglenn, CO Scarlett Bowman, Student, History/Museum Studies, Jason Harris, Director of Education, Angela Stokes, Director of Education, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma Journey Through Hallowed Ground Clary James, Student, History/Museum Studies, City, OK Partnership, Charlottesville, VA University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK Lacey Johnson, Student, History/Museum Studies, University of Central Oklahoma, Edmond, OK
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S S eptember 25 12:15 – 1:30 p m Tribal Track Closing Luncheon Preregistration Required, Cost: $20 XX Room: MR 19 and 20 Join us for the closing event of the Tribal Track meeting and hear speaker Jim Enote, Executive Director, A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center, Zuni, NM, speak on Building Scaffolds of Knowledge.
1 – 5 p m Hands On Lab: Pathways Preregistration Required, Cost: $20 XX Location: Ronald J. Norick Downtown Library Pathways: Discovering Your Connections to History is designed to help small historical organizations develop meaningful programs and strengthen relationships with their communities. Session leaders will share successful examples and will work with participants as they develop a program unique to their site. Participants will receive a copy of Pathways. Ch a i r : Christopher Shires, Director of Education, Edsel and Eleanor Ford House, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI
3 – 6 p m Aft e r n o o n Ev e n t Relaxing at an Oklahoma Treasure SpecialThanks! To all of You!
40 AASLH/OMA Annual Meeting klahoma City 2010 O AASLH/Oma ConferenceS ponsors The 2010 AASLH/OMA Annual Meeting Was Made Possible by Generous Support From:
Tribal Track Sessions, Plenary Speaker, Tours and Events Tribal Track was developed by the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Activities are sponsored by the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums with funding from IMLS.
Keynote Speaker — Susan Stamberg
Diamond National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum Oklahoma City Convention and Visitors Bureau Oklahoma History Center
Platinum pecialChesapeake Energy Corporation hanks! Cooperstown Graduate Program Creation Station The Donning Company Publishers Frankfurt Short Bruza S University of OklahomaT Museum Studies Program
Gold AltaMira Press ChemArt PastPerfect Museum Software
Oklahoma Museums Association Annual Meeting Luncheon and Awards is sponsored by: Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa Chickasaw Nation To all Kirkpatrickof Family F undYou! Institute of Museum and Library Services Oklahoma Arts Council Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum Oklahoma City Zoological Park and Botanical Gardens Oklahoma Department of Libraries Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History The Kerr Foundation, Inc.
Winds of Opportunity 41 S pecialTHanks AASLH/OMA extend a huge AASLH/OMA would like to recognize thank you to the fine state the many friends who contributed and local institutions their valuable time, energy, and of Oklahoma for their expertise to the success of this year’s additional support: conference. We appreciate you!
45th Infantry Division Museum Host Committee David Pettyjohn Oklahoma Humanities Council Dan Provo, Chair Oklahoma City, OK American Banjo Museum Oklahoma History Center Oklahoma City, OK Ann Thompson American Indian Cultural Center & Museum Oklahoma Humanities Council Brenda Granger Oklahoma City, OK Oklahoma Museums Chandler Route 66 Interpretive Center Association Heidi Vaughn Oklahoma City, OK Laboratory of History Museum Chickasaw Cultural Center University of Central Oklahoma Karlee Chill Edmond, OK Gaylord-Pickens Museum, Conoco Museum Oklahoma Heritage Association Stacey Weddington Oklahoma City, OK Oklahoma City National Memorial factor 110 and Museum Robbin Davis Oklahoma City, OK Oklahoma History Center Fort Sill National Historic Landmark and Oklahoma City, OK Paige Williams Museum Chickasaw Nation Barbie Elder Ada, OK Oklahoma Tourism and Gaylord-Pickens Museum Recreation Department Oklahoma City, OK Program Committee Gilcrease Museum Suzette Ellison Science Museum Oklahoma Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, Chair Harn Homestead Museum Oklahoma City, OK Abbe Museum Bar Harbor, ME Susan Feller Mohawk Trading Post Oklahoma Department of David Anderson Libraries Creek Council House Museum National Weather Service Severe Storm Oklahoma City, OK Okmulgee, OK Prediction Center Cher Golding Susan Baley Harn Homestead Museum Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art Norman, OK Oklahoma Governor’s Mansion Oklahoma City, OK Bethany Grove Rick Beard Oklahoma Route 66 Museum Oklahoma City Convention Independent Museum Professional and Visitors Bureau New York, NY Oklahoma State Capitol Oklahoma City, OK Gordon Blaker Stacey Halfmoon US Army Artillery Museum Oklahoma State Firefighters Museum American Indian Cultural Ft. Sill, OK Center & Museum Dr. Bill Bryans Oklahoma Territorial Museum Oklahoma City, OK Oklahoma State University Stillwater, Amy Higgins OK Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department Oklahoma City Convention and Ken Busby Visitors Bureau Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa Philbrook Museum of Art Oklahoma City, OK Tulsa, OK Gretchen Jeane Laura Casey Round Barn National Cowboy & Western Texas Historical Commission Heritage Museum Austin, TX Oklahoma City, OK Science Museum Oklahoma Dr. L. Teresa Church Melyn Johnson Independent Consultant/Archivist Scottish Rite Masonic Temple Oklahoma Tourism and Durham, NC Recreation Department Oklahoma City, OK Jan Davis Skirvin Hotel Oklahoma Department of Libraries Bret Mahoney Oklahoma City, OK Stafford Air and Space Museum Science Museum Oklahoma Oklahoma City, OK Marci Donaho Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum US Army Artillery Museum Samonia Meredith Seminole, OK Oklahoma Historical Society and Oklahoma History Center D. Stephen Elliott Oklahoma City, OK New York State Historical Association and The Farmers’ Stacy O’Daniel Museum Oklahoma Museums Cooperstown, NY Association Oklahoma City, OK
42 AASLH/OMA Annual Meeting klahoma City 2010 O S pecialTHanks Program Committee Heidi Vaughn Ted Isham continued Laboratory of History Museum, Creek Council House Museum University of Central Oklahoma Okmulgee, OK Susan Feller Edmond, OK Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Bernice LeBarre-Posada Museums Jay D. Vogt Oklahoma Arts Council Oklahoma City, OK South Dakota Historical Society Oklahoma City, OK Pierre, SD Matthew Gibson Lotsee Patterson Virginia Foundation for the Humanities Scott L. Wands University of Oklahoma Charlottesville, VA Connecticut Humanities Council Norman, OK Middletown, CT Brenda Granger Kim Penrod Oklahoma Museums Association Amanda Wesselmann Caddo Nation Oklahoma City, OK General Lew Wallace Study and Museum Binger, OK Crawfordsville, IN Jennifer Holt Karen Phillips Will Rogers Memorial Museums Karen Whitecotton-Phillips Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Center Claremore, OK Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Shawnee, OK Heritage Center Dan Provo David Janssen Shawnee, OK Detroit Historical Society Oklahoma Museum of History Detroit, MI Antoinette D. Wright Oklahoma City, OK Consultant Kathryn Redcorn Paul Levengood Chicago, IL Virginia Historical Society Osage Nation Richmond, VA Pawhuska, OK Stephanie Long Tribal Track Planning Teresa Runnels City of Las Cruces Museums Committee American Indian Resource Center Las Cruces, NM Tulsa City-County Library Bob Beatty Tulsa, OK Nicola Longford Vice President of Programs, AASLH Gwen Shunatona Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza Nashville, TN Dallas, TX Otoe-Missouria Tribe of Indians-Oklahoma Regina Berna Red Rock, OK Kate Marks Chickasaw Nation Anita Stevens Maryland War of 1812 Commission Ada, OK Baltimore, MD Sac and Fox Nation Melissa Brodt Stroud, OK Kristen Mravinec Oklahoma Department of Libraries Delores Sumner Greater Southwest Historical Museum Oklahoma City, OK Ardmore, OK Northeastern State University Christina Burke Tahlequah, OK Bill Peterson Philbrook Museum of Art Gena Timberman Montana Heritage Commission Tulsa, OK Virginia City, MT Native American Cultural and Educational Amanda Cobb-Greetham Authority Dan Provo Chickasaw Nation Oklahoma City, OK Oklahoma History Center Ada, OK Oklahoma City, OK Phillis Wahakrockah-Tasi Karen Coody-Cooper Comanche National Museum and Cultural Alexandra Rasic Cherokee Heritage Center Center Homestead Museum Tahlequah, OK Lawton, OK City of Industry, CA Jan Davis Kelvin White Randy Wayne Ray Oklahoma Department of Libraries University of Oklahoma Northern Indiana Center for History Oklahoma City, OK Norman, OK South Bend, IN Meghan Dorey Eva Williams Julia Rose Myaamia Heritage Museum Southern Plains Indian Museum West Baton Rouge Museum and Archives Anadarko, OK Port Allen, LA Miami, OK Paige Williams Donna Sack Debra Echo-Hawk The Chickasaw Nation Naper Settlement Pawnee National of Oklahoma Ada, OK Naperville, IL Tribal Library Sharilyn Young Pawnee, OK Gary Schalliol Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma Washington State Historical Society Susan Feller Tahlequah, OK Tacoma, WA Oklahoma Department of Libraries Kurt Senn Oklahoma City, OK William J. Clinton Presidential Library Sue Folsom Little Rock, AR Choctaw Nation Museum Gena R. Timberman Tuskahoma, OK AASLH/OMA Native American Cultural and Educational Jerilyn Freeman Authority Euchee (Yuchi) Tribe of Indians e x p r e s s e s g r a t i t u d e Oklahoma City, OK Sapulpa, OK t o t h e s e A n n u a l Kenneth C. Turino Brenda Granger Historic New England Oklahoma Museums Association Boston, MA Oklahoma City, OK M e e t i n g C o m m i t t e e Gregory Vadney Regina Green M e m b e r s a n d The Stickley Museum Choctaw Nation Museum L. and J.G. Stickley, Inc. Tuskahoma, OK Manlius, NY Contributors Stacey Halfmoon American Indian Cultural Center & Museum Oklahoma City, OK
Winds of Opportunity 43 American Association of State and Local History Council David Donath, Chair, Woodstock Foundation, Billings Farm and Museum, Woodstock, VT D. Stephen Elliott, Vice-Chair, New York State Historical Association/The Farmers’ Museum, Cooperstown, NY Scott Stroh, Secretary, Florida Department of State, Division of Historical Resources, Tallahassee, FL Ann Toplovich, Treasurer, Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville,TN Barbara Franco, Immediate Past Chair, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, PA Melissa Bingmann, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, Abbe Museum, Bar Harbor, ME Salvatore G. Cilella, Jr., Atlanta History Center, Atlanta, GA Angela Fisher-Hall, Birmingham Public Library James B. Gardner, National Museum of American History, Washington, DC David Grabitske, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, MN Lynne Ireland, Nebraska State Historical Society, Lincoln, NE Russell Lewis, Chicago History Museum, Chicago, IL Anne McCudden, Ah-Tah-Thi Ki Museum, Clewiston, FL Cynthia Robinson, Tufts University, Medford, MA Ruby Rogers, Cincinnati Museum Center, Cincinnati, OH Julia Rose, West Baton Rouge Museum, Port Allen, LA Beverly Sheppard, Institute for Learning Innovation, Edgewater, MD Anne Woosley, Arizona Historical Society, Tucson, AZ Lawrence Yerdon, Strawbery Banke, Inc., Portsmouth, NH
AASLH Staff Terry Davis, President and CEO Bob Beatty, Vice President of Programs Cherie Cook, Senior Program Manager Bethany Hawkins, Program Associate Steve Hoskins, Project Director Terry Jackson, Program Associate Natalie Norris, Annual Meeting and Exhibit Hall Coordinator Rebecca Price, Director of Advertising and Marketing Mattie Rose, Data Entry and General Office Assistant Gina Sawyer, Membership and Information Manager Risa Woodward, Director of Finance
2010 Oklahoma Museums Association Board of Directors Deborah Burke, President, Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa David Anderson, Vice-President, Creek Council House Museum, Okmulgee Gena Timberman, Treasurer, American Indian Cultural Center & Museum, OKC Dr. Bill Bryans, Secretary, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater Marci Donaho, Immediate Past President, Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum, Seminole Jim Goss, District 1, Frank Phillips Home, Bartlesville Jennifer Holt, District 2 Representative, Will Rogers Memorial Museums, Claremore Julie Baird, District 3 Representative, Leonardo’s Discovery Warehouse, Enid Joshua D. Hinson, District 4 Representative, Chickasaw Nation, Ada Ken Fullbright, District 5 Representative, Santa Fe Depot Museum, Shawnee Kari Watkins, At-Large, Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, OKC Susan Baley, At-Large, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman John Hernandez, At-Large, Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton Melanie Davidson, At-Large, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman Dan Provo, At-Large, Oklahoma Museum of History, Oklahoma City Cecil Carter, At-Large, Murray State College, Tishomingo Karen Whitecotton-Phillips, At-Large, Citizen Potawatomi Cultural Heritage Center, Shawnee Ken Busby, Parliamentarian, Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, Tulsa Delaynna Trim, Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, MPMA Rep Jana Brown, OKME Rep, Museum of the Great Plains, Lawton Kristin Mravinec, OKRA Rep, Greater Southwest Historical Museum, Ardmore Stacey Weddington, OKMADA Rep, Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum, OKC Stacey Halfmoon, OKNAMPA Rep, American Indian Cultural Center & Museum, OKC
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