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useNEWS News museums can use New Law Benefits Many Oklahoma Museums M Great news! Governor Stitt signs into law O M A SB909 that allows Oklahoma museums with budgets less than $1 million to be O K L A H O M A exempt from paying sales tax on sales of tangible personal property or services to MUSEUMS a museum. A S S O C I A T I O N SUBJECT: Sales tax exemption BE IT Volume 52, No. 3 • Summer 2021 ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE Available to OMA members July 1; OF OKLAHOMA: SECTION 1. AMENDATORY posted online for public August 1 68 O.S. 2011, Section 1356, as last amended by Section 1, Chapter 413, O.S.L. 2019 (68 O.S. Supp. 2020, Section INSIDE: 1356), is amended to read as follows: 4 Section 1356. Exemptions - Governmental Communicator’s Corner and nonprofit entities. There are hereby specifically exempted from the tax levied 5 Gov. Stitt with Signed SB909 by Section 1350 et seq. of this title: #PreparednessGoals 7-9 81. Effective November 1, 2021, through December 31, 2024, sales of Oklahoma Museum tangible personal property or services to a museum that: a. operates Conference as a part of an organization which is exempt from taxation pursuant to the provisions of the Internal Revenue Code, 26 U.S.C., Section 12 501(c)(3), b. is not accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, Museline continued on page 2 18 Distance Learning Webinar Back to School Bash Registration Open for Participating Museums Oklahoma Museum Educators, through the organization of National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma History Center and Science Museum Oklahoma, present Oklahoma Museum Association’s Back to School Bash on Thursday, August 19 from 5:30pm-7:30pm at Science Museum Oklahoma.

Back to School Bash is an opportunity to engage educators in your area and share resources that your museum or organization have available to support learning in the classroom.

For 2021, in addition to hosting an in-person event, all participating organizations are encouraged to supply information for a virtual Back to School Bash resource page for educators as they prepare for the 2021- 22 academic year. This page will become available to educators on July 29. In addition, a virtual showcase will occur on August 19 in addition to the in-person event.

DONATE Please fill outthis form and submit pictures, short videos and files you would like featured for your organization by July 9. OKMuseums.org 1 OMA Board of Directors director's desk Richard Ellwanger • President Summertime and Happiness Seminole Nation Museum, Wewoka Ken Busby • Vice President As summer is here, I hope you plan to find some Route 66 Alliance, Tulsa time to take off and enjoy traveling or being Valorie Walters • Treasurer together with your family and friends. I recently The Chickasaw Nation, Ada read about a new trend called pop-up holidays. Delaynna Trim • Secretary Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee Pop-up holidays are spontaneous days off generally Dan Provo • Immediate Past President when a place of business offers extra days off on Oklahoma History Center, OKC Friday and Monday, making for a long weekend for everyone. It does not count toward your paid time off, but rather everyone in the organization gets a Amanda Boehm-Garcia • District 4 Rep. Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman Brenda Granger few extra surprise days off to help with the burn Executive Director out that so many people are experiencing from Jordan Boyd • District 2 Rep. Dobson Museum, Miami overwork during the pandemic. Maggie Brown • At-Large Rep. Tulsa Historical Society, Tulsa If you are interested in learning more about pop-up holidays, here Bill Bryans • Parlimentarian is one article that might be of interest. Whether you are enjoying Stillwater a planned vacay, a pop-up holiday or something totally different, I Susan Buchanan • At-Large Rep. hope you will find the summer sunshine a time to renew your energy Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa and practice gratitude, which studies have shown can increase your Lauren Daughety • At-Large Rep. happiness levels by 25%. And take it from me, happy is a great way The Guild, OKC to be. Marci Donaho • At-Large Rep. Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum, Brenda Seminole Jason Harris • District 5 Rep. Chisholm Trail Museum & Horizon Hill, Kingfisher James Pepper Henry • At-Large Rep. Watch your email inbox in July First Americans Museum, OKC Jennifer Holt • At-Large Rep. for your electronic ballot Will Rogers Memorial Museum, Claremore Jacob Krumwiede • At-Large Rep. Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, to vote for 2022-2023 Enid OMA Board of Directors! Sherry Marshall • At-Large Rep. Science Museum Oklahoma, OKC Dr. Kelli Mosteller • At-Large Rep. Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center, Shawnee New Law continued from page 1 JA Pryse • At-Large Rep. Carl Albert Congressional Research and and c. operates on an annual budget of less than One Million Dollars Studies Center, Norman ($1,000,000.00). SECTION 2. This act shall become effective Scott Stulen • At-Large Rep. November 1, 2021. Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa Gena Timberman, Esq • At-Large Rep. A HUGE thank you to SB909 authors Senator Pugh and The Luksi Group, OKC Representative Trey Caldwell, and co-authors Representative Mize, D’Lese Travis • District 3 Rep. Representative Rosecrants and Representative Dobrinski for their General Tommy Franks Leadership Institute and Museum, Hobart support of this effort, as well as the entire Oklahoma legislature. Karen Whitecotton • District 1 Rep. OKPOP, Tulsa OMA appreciates the Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame and Jim Thorpe Museum and OMA Board Member Jason Harris for their leadership on this issue. A shout out to ALL the amazing Oklahoma museum OMA Staff professionals and their grassroots advocacy for making this happen Brenda Granger • Executive Director as well. Stacy O’Daniel • Administrative & Program Associate Of note, Oklahoma museums accredited by the American Alliance of Shana Keith-Ward • Office Assistant Museums already have the above exemption. OMA will continue to work on exemption for Oklahoma museums that are not accredited Jeremy Springer • Comptroller and have an annual budget in excess of $1 million. Stay tuned. OKMuseums.org 2 Museum Virtual Summit on Creative Aging July 29 Oklahoma National History Day The American Alliance of President of Diversity Equity Award Sponsored by Oklahoma Museums is thrilled to announce & Inclusion, Asian American Museums Association a new virtual summit offering & Pacific Islander Audience Each year, the Oklahoma you a chance to explore with Strategy at AARP Museums Association sponsors colleagues a compelling vision of • An interactive workshop by the Best Exhibit Design award how museums can foster healthy the staff of Lifetime Arts— during the Oklahoma National aging for those “55 and better” in national leaders in creative History Day contest. This award America. Registration is open for aging program development. is given to one Junior Division The Museum Summit on Creative and one Senior Division entry Aging on July 29! • Learning from Experience: Older Adults, Ageism and exemplifying the best exhibit design practices in creating their Join them and Aroha What Museums Can Do National History Day entry. Philanthropies for a highly About It, a panel discussion interactive, half-day program featuring Toya Northington, Junior Division Winner including a keynote on aging Community Outreach Manager “Silent Communication: The and equity, an interactive at the Speed Art Museum; Eli Language of the Fan” by workshop on creative aging Burke, Education Director at Memphis Hoover from Morrison program development, and the Museum of Contemporary High School panel and breakout discussions Art Tucson; and Jill N. Smith, to connect with speakers and Director of the Union County Senior Division Winner panelists. Space will fill up fast— Heritage Museum. “The Original Code Talkers” by register today to ensure you • Breakout discussion rooms will Hollie Courtney from Muskogee don’t miss out on these critical give attendees the opportunity High School conversations. to engage more deeply with the speakers and panelists. Congratulations to all of this The half-day program will include: year’s winners! • A keynote on aging and Register here today. equity by Daphne Kwok, Vice

OKMuseums.org 3 communicator’s corner Podcasting Tips for Museums by Tony Vann, Principal, The Guild Recording a podcast has gone integration for our website and from needing a set up similar to social media. a full on sound studio to now a basic microphone and computer. I can hear everyone reading this Lauren and I actually record asking, “Ok, so if it is so easy, our weekly podcast through our what is the catch?” The catch telephone system, and it works is, just like everything else in really well. There are a variety marketing, you can’t just build it of ways to record the podcast, and hope people come. You have Tony Vann but just remember, getting to promote your podcast early It comes a time when something something recorded is more and often. Use your social media that appears to be a “fad,” or important that getting it perfect channels, e-signatures, email “new technology” transforms the first time around. That is campaigns and other outreach to into a mainstay in our daily lives. where editing comes into play. tell people about your podcast, Adam Curry and Dave Winer are how they can subscribe and credited with the invention of Editing a podcast may seem like listen as well as when new podcasting in 2004. Who exactly a daunting task, but it is fairly episodes will air. Also, don’t be did what is up for dispute, but straight forward. There are a afraid to have some fun with this in the end, these are the two variety of programs, free and content. We have all listened to who got it rolling. The term pay ware, which can be used lectures and they aren’t always podcasting was mentioned to edit your podcast file. The that fun, however, 15 minutes by Ben Hammersley in The best part is, you can correct any of entertainment peppered with Guardian newspaper article later mistakes you might have made facts is digestible content for the same year. Podcasting has during the recording, add music, almost anyone! come a long way since the first sound effects and even change podcast 17 years ago and if you the speed at which answers are About Tony Vann aren’t producing one, you are asked and answered by deleting Tony Vann is a proven public probably missing an opportunity awkward silent moments. A few relations and communications to engage with your consumers titles for free software include professional with more than and stakeholders. GarageBand, Audacity, Music 25 years of experience in Maker, Studio One and WavePad. marketing, branding, media Before I jump into the mechanics Once you have a great podcast, relations, government relations, of podcasting, I do want to hit the next step is getting it development, marketing the pause button for a reminder. distributed to your audiences. communications and non-profit The first step to podcasting administration. Before becoming should be content development, Don’t be afraid, this step is easy a Principal at The Guild, he tone, voice and potentially a as well. The first thing you need founded Vann & Associates | content calendar to incorporate to decide on is what distribution PR + Marketing. He has also your podcasts with other events service you’d like to use. The served as President of Christian and exhibits which could boost Guild uses Buzzsprout for The Companion Senior Care, the viability of both the podcast G Factor podcast. There are communications director for and your traditional efforts. Take several others including Audacity, Oklahoma’s Lieutenant Governor the time to make a road map. Kitcaster and SimpleCast. We use Mary Fallin, development director Creating a podcast is important, Buzzsprout because they make for the Oklahoma City National but sustaining that podcast over it easy to publish on our website Memorial, public relations a period of time is crucial in order as well as on popular podcast director at Oklahoma State for it to gain traction and be hubs such as iTunes, Amazon University in Oklahoma City as an effective component of your Music, Pandora, iHeart Radio well as the legislative assistant global marketing efforts. and others. What is the cost to the House Republican Leader you ask? We pay approximately in the Oklahoma House of There are basically three $15 per month to distribute our Representatives. components of a podcast. There podcast. That includes archives is the recording, the editing and of past episodes, artwork for the distribution of one’s podcast. each episode, descriptions and

OKMuseums.org 4 #PreparednessGoals Incident Command System by Tracy Bidwell, Museum Registrar, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Organized perform the function of any role museum career as a volunteer response or responsibility not assigned. in the Registration department to an Likewise, if the size of an at the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of emergency emergency is so great that shifts Art, where she later served as is essential, are required in order to afford Chief Registrar. In 2019 Tracy no matter responders adequate time to joined the staff at the Sam Noble how rest, then more than one Incident Oklahoma Museum of Natural minor we Commander will be appointed History where she enjoys serving perceive the to the effort. During a response as Museum Registrar. Tracy has emergency and recovery effort, assigned a forever-growing love for the to be. roles under ICS provide for the natural world, museums and Tracy Bidwell And as management of information, collections, and for helping those emergencies are a given for any safety, operations, planning, in need. museum professional (they say logistics, administration, and if you haven’t yet encountered finance. Without such a system, one that you’re probably due), it a response and recovery effort is important that we, as museum will descend into chaos which will professionals and collection only be to the detriment of the stewards, have lots of tools effort and all those involved. in our emergency response toolkit. One invaluable tool that For those of us who have never we should all be acquainted navigated a response or recovery with is the Incident Command effort, an understanding of the System (ICS). ICS is the system Incident Command System used to establish a hierarchical (acquired in peacetime) will structure for coordinating be immensely helpful towards cooperative response to an curbing any angst you might emergency. ICS establishes both feel as you imagine how you a chain of command and lines might manage a response to a of communication essential to theoretical emergency. The go- Building and organized response. Effective to resource on the subject and sustaining implementation of ICS is not a must have for any cultural dependent on a large staff and institution is Implementing the Oklahoma’s not all emergencies necessitate Incident Command System at the arts industry the assembly of every major role Institutional Level by David W. under ICS. Carmichael. This book provides a framework for a response and 10,000 jobs Under ICS, leadership is recovery effort and is widely centralized under an Incident regarded in the field as being strong Commander. Incident the best resource of its kind. commanders are generally Follow the link below for more appointed at the time ICS is information and a place to deployed and they oversee purchase this resource. Keep on all aspects of a response preparing! and recovery effort from the mobilization of the effort to the https://books.google. demobilization. The size and scale com/books/about/ of an emergency will determine Implementing_the_ how many components of ICS Incident_Command_System. are needed for the response. If html?id=fcjBcQAACAAJ the size of the emergency does not necessitate the complete About Tracy Bidwell assembly of all assigned roles Tracy Bidwell has worked as a under the ICS structure, the registrar in Oklahoma for more Incident Commander will than a decade. She began her An agency of state government • arts.ok.gov

OKMuseums.org 5 New Report Explores Capacity Building Opportunities for Museums The Institute of Museum and building programs, such as 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic Library Services and Partners for the Museum Assessment and racial reckoning underscored Public Good (PPG) are pleased Program, the STePs program the need for museums to lean to announce a new report on the for history organizations, HELP into continual adaptation to state of capacity building in the for small Midwestern museums, ensure they remain relevant museum sector and opportunities and Museums Empowered,” to their audiences and vital to for further exploration. said Christopher Reich, Acting their communities. This report Deputy Director of the Office of highlights the collective capacity Museums serve communities by Museum Services. “This study building efforts required by providing learning opportunities helps IMLS align its grantmaking funders, museum associations, for people of all ages and with current needs, while helping and museum leadership to backgrounds, partnering with the entire museum sector support effective museum other organizations to address better understand the nature of adaptation.” community needs, and preserving capacity building to assist them the objects and artifacts in focusing their efforts in a For more information and the full entrusted to them by the public. constantly changing world.” report, visit the IMLS website. Just like other organizations, museums must have institutional The study engaged a wide variety capacity: the skills, knowledge, of stakeholders, with a focus and systems to adapt to changes on small and medium sized in the environment; operate museums, to capture a range efficiently; and remain relevant of perspectives throughout the to stakeholders. sector. A mixed method approach collected both quantitative and Museum Monthly, an IMLS collaborated with PPG to qualitative data through an online OMA Facebook feature, conduct the study, a Market survey, interviews, and focus is seeking museums for Analysis and Opportunity groups with museum leaders, Assessment of Museum Capacity funders, capacity builders, future posts. Get your Building Programs, to gain a and museum associations. A museum on the list here. holistic understanding of the steering committee of museum needs for capacity building practitioners and a Subject Check out the current support, identify potential gaps Matter Expert Committee post now by visiting the in the current capacity building provided guidance throughout OMA Facebook page. offerings, and define new the process. opportunities and approaches for both IMLS and the museum “Museums have been adapting Like us to learn about community. to the world around them for one of Oklahoma’s 500+ centuries,” said PPG’s Tim museums each month. “For decades, IMLS has invested Hausmann and Samantha in organizational capacity Hackney in a statement. “In

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OKMuseums.org 6 OKLAHOMA MUSEUM CONFERENCE Register by August 6 for the Early Bird Rate It is time to set sail on one fabulous Oklahoma Museum Conference, September 15-17 at The Grand Casino & Resort in Shawnee. Hosted by the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center and the Mabee- Gerrer Museum of Art, we know that Oklahoma museums professionals, both paid and volunteer, have been keeping the ship steadied over the last year+ and now it is time to navigate new waters and hopefully have some smooth(er) sailing. This year we are excited to return to an in-person conference with on- demand access to the virtual conference website from September 20-October 3. On-demand content will feature select conference sessions as well as additional bonus material not presented at the conference. All registrants can attend in person, virtually, or both!

We understand that museum budgets and staffing are tight but attending the Oklahoma Museum Conference is valuable to you AND your museum. How? • Expand your network by connecting with a wide range of attendees. A broad network provides a stable base from which to draw when you have questions or need guidance once you return home. • Build your knowledge and take innovative ideas back to your museum. Conference sessions cover a variety of topics from education to collections, fundraising to preservation, and marketing to best practices. • Visit with exhibitors to find products/services of value to your museum in the virtual exhibit hall. • Grow within the profession by learning best practices and ways to increase outreach and services.

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OKMuseums.org 7 OKLAHOMA MUSEUM CONFERENCE Conference Hotel Oklahoma Humanities and Oklahoma The conference hotel is The Grand Casino Hotel Museums Association Capacity Building & Resort, 777 Grand Casino Blvd, Shawnee, Initiative Oklahoma 74804. Room rates are $99 per night The Oklahoma Humanities and Oklahoma Museums for a king or double queen room. Rate applies Association Capacity Building Initiative is a to stays on or between September 14-16, 2021. collaborative effort. The goal is to engage and Room rates are subject to applicable state and local build capacity for Oklahoma’s 500+ museums from taxes, currently 8.5% city tax and 7.77% hotel across the state, and especially rural, small or tax. Rate is available until August 1, 2021. After isolated museums through the Oklahoma Museum August 1, room rates will be at the Grand Casino Conference in Shawnee, Oklahoma, as well as Hotel & Resort current rate. Each room has many through membership in the Oklahoma Museums luxury features including spacious baths and Serta Association. In addition, the partnership will beds, 42” Flat Panel HD televisions, complimentary support the kickoff session at the 2021 Oklahoma wireless & wired internet access, in-room safes, Museums Conference with virtual components. ironing board and irons, and Gilchrest and Soames Want to be a part of this initiative? We bath products. hope so! The process will be a competitive scholarship application that can be found All reservations must be guaranteed with a at https://okmuseums.wufoo.com/forms/ major credit card. To make a reservation, call zz24xmh0ju2tdl/. the hotel directly at 405.964.7777 and indicate you are with Oklahoma Museums Association If selected, you will receive one conference Conference. To book online, go to https://www. registration plus a Wednesday workshop and grandresortok.com/. Click Book a Room on the all special events (September 15-17, 2021 in right-hand corner of the website, then scroll down Shawnee), and a $100 conference travel stipend. to Modify Search and enter your information. Use Your museum also will receive a one-year OMA the following group code: 210914OKLA Institutional Membership at the Pinnacle Level. We encourage all submissions, but please know that Assistive Needs preference will be given to rural, small or isolated The Oklahoma Museums Association strives to museums. The deadline to submit your application ensure programs and activities are accessible to is Tuesday, July 27, 2021. all interested persons, including those who are disabled, have impaired vision or hearing, or other Thank you to Caroline Lowery, Executive Director of sensory impairments. Please notify us no later Oklahoma Humanities for her vision and support of than August 15 if you have assistive needs at the the Oklahoma Humanities and Oklahoma Museums conference. Association Capacity Building Initiative.

Conference Scholarships The following conference scholarship types are available: Smooth • Sailing Speaker Session Only Scholarship • Conference Registration Scholarship (workshops and special events not included) To qualify for an OMA conference scholarship, an applicant must complete the OMA conference application form here by Tuesday, July 27, 2021. Preference will be given to applicants attending the conference in person.

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OKMuseums.org 8 OKLAHOMA MUSEUM CONFERENCE Wednesday Workshops Thursday Kickoff and Keynote Wednesday, September 15 from 1:00pm-4:00pm The conference kickoff session at 9:00am on Workshops have additional fee: $25 OMA Member Thursday, September 16 focuses on Idabel artist, Discount Rate; $45 Basic Rate. Participants are Harold Stevenson. responsible for transportation. The Museum of the Red River launched a 2020 Caterpillar Consciousness – Art and Nature in retrospective of their hometown artist, Harold Health and Wellness Stevenson. The museum’s efforts were not unlike Held at The Grand Casino Hotel & Resort Conference those of the artist they featured. Harold Stevenson Center, 777 Grand Casino Blvd, Shawnee also had to smooth the waters and chart new courses at every turn of disappointments, failures, This workshop will provide a brief introduction to and calamities during his eighty-year career as images and art making as a practice for wellness. an international artist. In 1963 he was banned Followed by a direct experience in connecting art from the Guggenheim. In 2005, Stevenson’s ship with nature for restoring our health and the health finally came in when the Guggenheim included him of the planet. No previous experience in art making in their permanent collection. This presentation is required or needed. Come prepared for to describes how the museum reset their sails when explore and express! Covid-19 interrupted and still found a way to connect with their community. Native Cultural Centers as Sites of Healing Held at Citizen Potawatomi Nation Eagle Aviary, Come to this session for a chance to win an 41910 Hardesty Road, Shawnee • Limited to 30 exhibition catalog donated by Museum of the Red participants River. The speaker is Dian Jordan, Ph.D. She is a sociological researcher focusing on qualitative The Eagle is an integral part of cultural lifeways methods relating to rural and disadvantaged for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and many populations. When not teaching for the University other Native American tribes. They are revered as of Texas Permian Basin, she analyzes oral histories, warriors and messengers to the Creator. Honoring letters, photographs, exhibition catalogs, and that connection, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation ephemera of the Harold Stevenson (1929 – 2018) Eagle Aviary offers a permanent home for injured archives. In 2019 – 2020, she served as the Eagles that cannot be returned to the wild, while visiting curator at the Museum of the Red River offering a space for ceremony, healing, prayer, and in Idabel, Oklahoma where she presented Art in educational programs to reconnect our people to Community: The Harold Stevenson Collection. She the living Eagle. Attendees will observe the eagles received her Ph.D. from Texas Woman’s University from our indoor and outdoor viewing areas and get and a master’s degree from the University of a feel for a day in the life of our eagles and their Oklahoma. A special thanks to the Oklahoma caretakers. We will also discuss how staff at the Humanities for their support with this session. Aviary and the Cultural Heritage Center collaborate to create dynamic programming that connects The conference keynote address at 12:15pm tribal members and guests to our living culture and on Thursday, September 16 will be delivered by offers a pathway to cultural healing. Jennifer Randell and Bree Dunham, Managers,

Citizen Potawatomi Nation Eagle Aviary and Be Prepared! Emergency Response and Salvage of Dr. Kelli Mosteller, Executive Director, Citizen Paper Based Collections Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heritage Center. Held at Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, 1900 W Macarthur Street, Shawnee • Limited to 20 In 2012 the Citizen Potawatomi Nation opened participants. its Eagle Aviary as a permanent home for injured A yearly review and simulations of your disaster Eagles that cannot be returned to the wild, while plan are critical parts of Emergency Preparedness. also offering a space for ceremony, reflection, and In this workshop, you will experience a simulated prayer. At the time, it was only the fifth aviary of water disaster salvage, and review what should be its kind in the United States. Since then, it has in your disaster kit. This will be an opportunity to provided a platform for programming focused on practice hands-on recovery methods of wet books, rekindling our cultural traditions and educating flat paper, photographs, and media, and understand thousands of visitors about conservation and raptor how different materials react to getting wet. husbandry. CPN Eagle Aviary and Cultural Heritage Thanks to the Oklahoma Department of Libraries, Center staff will share some of their greatest trials Oklahoma Historical Records Advisory Board, and successes, and highlight ways our collaboration and National Historical Publications and Records has furthered the mission of both programs – to Commission for their support with this workshop. reconnect people to our living culture.

OKMuseums.org 9 New ‘Museums for Digital Learning’ Site for K-12 Educators Launches Museums Across U.S. Invited to Contribute Content The Institute of Museum and committed to participating and inanimate or living collections. Library Services is pleased 29 Resource Kits. Museums can use objects, to announce the launch of audio, video, and even a new online resource With the website’s official launch, exhibition panel texts. center featuring dynamic hundreds of museums have the • Power of the Whole: A shared digital museum content for opportunity to contribute to MDL, platform makes it easy for K-12 educators searchable by making it a rich resource for K-12. educators to visit, browse, subject and grade. Teachers MDL features and opportunities and gather teaching resources across the country can now find for contributing museums and from one place, rather than resources that feature engaging K-12 educators include: having to explore hundreds activities from a growing number of individual sites. Time and • of museums all aligned with Inquiry-Based, Interactive ease of access are two key national education standards. Learning: Resource Kits needs of teachers. are made up of several Originally funded as a pilot activity types through which How to Participate project through an FY 2018 museums can choose to The MDL team holds regular National Leadership Grant to present their content. These training webinars for museums the Indianapolis Museum of Art may include narratives, who are interested in contributing at Newfields, Museums for Digital hotspots, slideshows, content, and videos and other Learning (MDL) is a collaboration annotations, timelines, resources are in the museum of IMLS, Newfields, the Field games, and e-books. section of the platform. Museum, and History Colorado. Museums decide on the The project brings together number of digitized objects As the project expands, the MDL museums of various disciplines, they want to use in a kit and team continues to work with a sizes, and geographic regions the types of activities they dedicated group of educators to contribute to a shared digital want to include. to create greater awareness platform offering K-12 educational • Curriculum Aligned: All about this resource for teachers resource kits developed from Resource Kits are curriculum and school librarians across the museum collections. aligned and searchable by nation. grade level and subject. Over the course of the last two For more information on becoming and a half years, the MDL team • Collaboration: MDL offers a unique opportunity for two or a participating museum, designed a platform that would visit museumsfordigitallearning. build and strengthen the capacity more museums to co-create a Resource Kit with digital org or contact info@ of our nation’s museums to museumsfordigitallearning.org. serve the larger K-12 education assets from their institutions community. Working with K-12 around a single theme or educators, the team created topic. templates that would be easy • Flexible Content: MDL for any museum to populate welcomes museums of all and add to the site as Resource kinds: collecting and non- Kits. There are now 23 museums collecting, and those with

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OKMuseums.org 10 Choosing Materials for Learn More about Museums for All at July 13 Webinar Museum Storage Webinar Are you interested in learning A shout out to the following Presented by FAIC Connecting more about Museums for museums for being a part of the to Collections Care on July 29, All, an initiative dedicated to Museums for All program. 2021, 12:00pm Central Time expanding community access? Join staff from the Institute of Oklahoma Register here. Museum and Library Services American Banjo Museum and the Association of Children’s (Oklahoma City, OK) One of the most basic ways Museums on July 13 at 1:00pm Chisholm Trail Heritage we can care for our museum Central Time to learn more about Center collections is by making sure that how and why over 675 museums (Duncan, OK) their long-term storage is as safe participate in the program. Find as it can be for the materials more information and register to Edmond Historical Society in our care. This webinar will attend the informational webinar (Edmond, OK) introduce a wide variety of on the IMLS website. potential storage materials and Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art work through the decision- Museums for All is a way to (Shawnee, OK) making process of why different broaden a museum’s visitor Oklahoma Hall of Fame | materials should be chosen for base, and reach out to Gaylord-Pickens Museum particular storage applications underserved communities. A (Oklahoma City, OK) and collection material type. museum visit can inspire the development of new skills and Philbrook Museum of Art interests, and ignite creativity At the end of the webinar, (Tulsa, OK) attendees should feel informed and enrich social connections. and confident in choosing Museums for All will help Tulsa Botanic Garden storage materials for many expand access to museums (Tulsa, OK) of the most common types of and also raise public awareness Tulsa Historical Society & museum collection materials. about how museums in the Museum Attendees are invited to share U.S. are reaching their entire (Tulsa, OK) examples of specific storage communities. By addressing challenges they face. financial and logistical barriers to visitation, Museums for All Presenter also aspires to be an effective Maggie Hill-Kipling is an objects strategy for mitigating the conservator in Minneapolis, MN. social and academic barriers She has a MS in Art Conservation individuals face when they are from the Winterthur/University not exposed to high quality of Delaware Program in Art museum experiences. Learn Conservation and a BA in more about Museums for All, Anthropology and Museum and register today! Studies from Beloit College in Wisconsin. Maggie spent the bulk of her career in Tucson, AZ at the University of Arizona working on cooperative agreements with the National Park Service’s Intermountain Museum Services Program, where she conducted collection condition surveys, implemented and advised on storage, rehousing, and move projects, and treated a wide variety of historic, archaeological, and Native American cultural materials.

OKMuseums.org 11 museline Grant deadlines, training and other news Oklahoma Open Meeting Act - Group Travel is Back OMA Connections Calls Virtual Meeting No Longer an Group travel is gearing up and Join your colleagues for the Option after last year’s shut down it monthly OMA Connections Governor Stitt lifted the is expected to make a roaring Call which takes place the COVID-19 emergency declaration comeback. By supporting second Friday of the month on May 3, 2021. Organizations the Oklahoma Tourism at 10am Central Time. who fall under the Oklahoma Group Travel Trade Program Register here. Once you register, Open Meeting Act no longer have you help ensure that those the OMA Connections Zoom the option to allow its voting motorcoaches, “rolling ATMs” Meeting information will be sent members to attend virtually. as Lt. Gov. Pinnell calls them, to you at the email address you visit our state, stay in your provided. There will not be a July Oklahoma Museums hotels, eat at your restaurants, OMA Connections Call. The next Invited to Participate in the and visit your attractions Call will be on Friday, August 13 Oklahoma FolkLife Festival and museums. According to at 10am Central. The Oklahoma History Center American Bus Association’s would like to invite Oklahoma most recent research (2018), Professional Development museums to participate in a new the total economic impact of Calendar festival called the Oklahoma the group travel industry in The professional development FolkLife Festival, October Oklahoma was $1.3 billion. calendar is a listing of training 16 from 9:00am-2:00pm. Help Oklahoma recapture those opportunities, for those in The mission is to collaborate dollars and even more for 2022! the museum field, hosted by with cultural practitioners, For more information on the either the American Alliance of communities, and heritage Oklahoma Tourism Group Travel Museums or museum service professionals, to spark curiosity, Trade Program and its benefits organizations, professional catalyze intercultural exchange, please click here. If you have training programs, colleges/ and create participatory questions email Colin.Murphy@ universities, government experiences about the state of TravelOK.com. agencies and other nonprofit Oklahoma. This event will be organizations working for the held predominately outdoors. American Association for State success of museums. Read more In the past, events like this and Local History (AASLH) In addition, the Texas Historical have gathered 3,000+ people. 2021 Annual Meeting Commission maintains a list of If your museum is interested in The AASLH is holding their annual good professional development participating in this event, please meeting in person as well as opportunities here. complete the application form. offering an online conference in 2021. Read more OMA Calendar of Events 2021 State of Civil Society Dates/events subject to change; Report Museums and Creative Aging: visit OKMuseums.org to confirm. A new report by CIVICUS A Healthful Partnership entitled 2021 State of Civil This landmark report August 19 Society Report analyzes how commissioned by the American Back to School Bash at Science contemporary events and trends Alliance of Museums and written Museum Oklahoma are impacting on civil society and by Marjorie Schwarzer is a call how civil society is responding to to action for museums to change September 1 the major issues and problems the narrative about what it Kendra Scott Gives Back event of the day. This is the tenth means to grow old in America. benefitting Oklahoma Museums edition of the report, which Opening with an overview of Association focuses on civil society action aging and ageism in our country, and developments in 2020, the report documents actions September 15-17 looks back over ten years of civil being taken to foster positive Oklahoma Museum Conference society activity, and highlights aging, profiles the work of in-person, Shawnee key ideas for action in civil museums providing creative September 20-October 3 society in 2021 and beyond. The aging programming, and shares Oklahoma Museum Conference report covers topics such as the lessons learned from the on-demand global struggle for racial justice, Seeding Vitality Arts in Museums democracy under the pandemic, initiative of Aroha Philanthropies. October 28 and demands for economic and Download your free copy of the Building the Foundations of environmental justice. report here. Distance Learning in Your Museum Webinar OKMuseums.org 12 recent gifts Leave your legacy Contributions, donations, grants and sponsorships received OMA would appreciate you March 1, 2021 - May 31, 2021 remembering the organiza- Champions ($1,000 and over) Bill Boettger, OKC tion in your will. If you are 3D Scans Plus Bill Bryans, Stillwater interested in leaving OMA a charitable bequest, the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Susan Buchanan, Tulsa language in your will should Martin&Martin Design Lauren Daughety, El Reno contain the following: The Anne and Henry Zarrow Michelle Eaton, OKC I/We give to the Oklahoma Foundation Brenda Granger, Edmond Museums Association (EIN The Chickasaw Nation Carol Ann & Tommy Hager, Mid- 73-1004791), a 501(c)3 west City non-profit corporation, the Supporters ($500 to $999) following money or asset Jim & Cherrie Hampton, OKC Richard Ellwanger, Wewoka (describe here) to benefit Jasmine Moran Children’s Mu- Michael Harper, OKC their charitable purpose. seum Jason Harris, Kingfisher Quail Creek Bank Jonna Herbert, OKC Additionally, you can list the Route 66 Alliance Jennifer Holt, Claremore organization as a beneficiary on your insurance or invest- West Oklahoma City Rotary Club Kendra Scott ment policies. Sherry Marshall, OKC Donors ($100 to $499) Dr. Kelli Mosteller, Shawnee Please consult your estate Danny & Michele Bell, OKC Melody Muniz, OKC planner, tax professional or Carmen F. Bria, Jr., Wheat Ridge attorney when preparing Scotty & Stacy O’Daniel, OKC CO your charitable bequest. Kelli Payne, Mustang Exhibit Concepts, Inc. Peter Pembroke, OKC Grady County Historical Society OMA endowment fund Arla Protzman, Midwest City Edward Granger, OKC Joe & Shelley Protzman, Choctaw If you would like to make a Todd Krout, Bethany contribution to the OMA en- Science Museum Oklahoma Oklahoma Hall of Fame | Gay- dowment fund at the Okla- lord-Pickens Museum Charlene Spencer, Midwest City homa City Community Foun- Patrick & Lacey Raymer, Tulsa The Guild dation, please visit www. Kevin Richardson, OKC The Springer Company occf.org and select the blue Online Giving button; or at Jeff Schulhoff, OKC Gena Timberman, OKC OKmuseums.org. Voorhees & Voorhees, P.C. 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OKMuseums.org 13 member recognition New and renewed members March 1, 2021 - May 31, 2021 New members are indicated with an asterisk. Individuals Joanna Didik, Tulsa Institutions Patron Mike Doak, Henryetta Pinnacle Ken Busby, Tulsa Stephen Dock, Mangum Canadian Rivers Historical Mark Dolph, Tulsa Museum* Friend Marci Donaho, Seminole Elk City Museum Complex Deborah Burke, Tulsa Diana Folsom, Tulsa Gilcrease Museum Kathy Dickson, OKC Sandi Freeman, Tulsa Henryetta Historical Society & Territorial Museum Gayle Farley, OKC Todd Fuller, Norman Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum Maury Ford, OKC Laura Fry, Tulsa National Wrestling Hall of Fame Robin Hohweiler, Fargo Garrett Gibson, Tulsa and Museum Renee Harvey, Tulsa Individual Oklahoma Hall of Fame | Gaylord Tammy Hawbaker, Woodward Ernestine Berry, Park Hill Pickens Museum Chelsea Herr, Tulsa Chandra Boyd, OKC Oklahoma Railway Museum Robin Hohweiler, Woodward Cheyenne Caraway, Astoria NY Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame Jennifer Holt, Claremore Jessica Cavin, Norman Plains Indians & Pioneers Museum Melissa Hudson, Blackwell David Davis, Tulsa The Museum Broken Arrow Stephanie Hunter, Claremore Valerie Duncan, Guthrie Top of Oklahoma Historical Maxine Jackson, Elk City Rudy Ellis, Ardmore Society Museum Mike Jeffries, Sapulpa Heath Jones, OKC* University of Oklahoma Libraries Rachel Johnson, Tulsa Kay Little, Bartlesville Tad Jones, Claremore Julie Lyles, Bethany Elevated Glenda Kuhn, McLoud American Fidelity Heritage Center Sarah Milligan, Stillwater Emma Leach, OKC Ninety-Nines Museum of Women Eric Singleton, OKC Marnie Leist, Miami Pilots Phyllis Wahahrockah-Tasi, Norman Justin Lenhart, OKC Old Greer County Museum & Hall Kerry Magruder, Norman of Fame Retired Professional Sapulpa Historical Society Glen McIntyre, Kingfisher Frank Mulhern, Tulsa Museums Dianne Moore, Mineral Wells, TX Susan Neal, Tulsa Shawnee Tribe Cultural Center Sarah Wright, Tulsa Mildred Nesser, Elk City Lina Ortega, Norman The Sherwin Miller Museum of Jewish Art Student Alicia Perkins, Tulsa Tulsa Fire Museum Brandy Ball, McLoud* Veronica Pipestem, Tulsa Will Rogers Memorial Museum Ella Crenshaw, Norman Paula Reding, Geary* Madiha Saleem, Edmond* Shannon Rich, OKC Ground Floor Josie Sneed, Edmond* Jodi Risley, Boise City Cimmaron Heritage Center Melanie Rosencutter, Tulsa Mannford Museum Designated Staff/Board/Volunteer Alison Rossi, Tulsa McLoud Historical Society Mattie Barlow, OKC Shaylynn Sawyer, OKC Museum and Heritage Center Laurel Benson, Tulsa Cynthia Short, Elk City Minco Historical Society and Leslie Bonaventura, Tulsa Lee Roy Smith, Stillwater Museum Dianne Braden, Blackwell William Smith, Tulsa Oklahoma Blues Consortium Julie Brown, Broken Arrow Gordon Stewart, Mannford Laura Bryant, Tulsa Charlotte Thomas, Elk City Affiliated Organization/ Susan Buchanan, Tulsa Jaymie Turner, Norman Corporate Lisa Burchfield, OKC* Natalie Wadle, Miami Level II James Burnes, Norman Brian Whinery, OKC The Springer Company Jack Carnefix, Stillwater Beth White, Mangum Anne Chilton, OKC Marcus Whitworth, Henryetta* Level I Allie Cloud, Broken Arrow Tracey Herst Woods, Tulsa Re:discovery Software, Inc. Cathy Cornwell, Claremore Marvin Woodworth, Minco Western Center for the Drew Diamond, Tulsa Conservation of Fine Arts

OKMuseums.org 14 Blue Star Museums The National Endowment for how many museums a family can OKLAHOMA the Arts and Blue Star Families visit during the summer. ARDMORE are pleased to announce the Greater S.W. Hist. and Military return of the Blue Star Museums The free admission program Memorial Museum program for summer 2021. is available for those currently Museums in all 50 states, plus serving in the United States CHEYENNE the District of Columbia, Puerto Military - Army, Navy, Air Washita Battlefield National Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands are Force, Marine Corps, Coast Historic Site registered as Blue Star Museums, Guard as well as Active Duty CHICKASHA with more museums signing up and Reservists, National Grady County Historical to participate throughout the Guardsman (regardless of Society summer. For a complete list of status), U.S. Public Health CLAREMORE participants, visit arts.gov/ Commissioned Corps, NOAA Will Rogers Memorial Museum bluestarmuseums. Commissioned Corps, and up to five family members. Qualified GROVE Blue Star Museums is a members must show a Geneva Har-Ber Village Museum collaboration among the National Convention common access IDABEL Endowment for the Arts, Blue card (CAC), DD Form 1173 Museum of the Red River Star Families, the Department of ID card (dependent ID), or a Defense, and museums across DD Form 1173-1 ID card for MIAMI America offering free admission entrance into a participating Dobson Museum to the nation’s currently-serving Blue Star Museum. Visit arts. OKLAHOMA CITY military personnel and their gov/bluestarmuseums for American Banjo Museum families, including National Guard a complete list of participating National Cowboy & Western and Reserve. organizations. Heritage Museum Participation in Blue Star Follow Blue Star Museums Oklahoma City Museum of Art Museums is entirely voluntary. on Twitter and Instagram @ PAWNEE By registering, museums express NEAarts, BlueStarFamily, Pawnee Bill Ranch and their appreciation for the nation’s #bluestarmuseums. Museum military and their families, while SHAWNEE acknowledging the hardships It is not too late for museums Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art that come with that service. Blue to sign up. Museum registration Star Museums include children’s can be found at https://apps. TULSA museums, art, science, and nea.gov/bluestarsignup/ Sherwin Miller Museum of history museums, zoos, gardens, mainpage.aspx. Jewish Art lighthouses, and more. Military WEWOKA families can plan their summer The Oklahoma Museums Seminole Nation Museum move or vacation around visits to Association appreciates the Blue Star Museums, and explore 15 Oklahoma museums WYNNEWOOD new places in their community participating in the 2021 Blue Wynnewood Historical Society with outings to local Blue Star Star Museums Program. Museums. There is no limit to

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OKMuseums.org 15 Smarties Virtual Trivia Fundraiser A Success Smarties Virtual Trivia Fundraiser Thank you to the Smarties This year’s winners are: is in the books and it was a ton Committee for planning such a of fun. A huge shout out to Ken fun fundraiser with Trivia Hub. 1st place Busby for his continuing talents Committee members include Oklahoma smARTS Council - as the best Trivia Master of Ken Busby • Richard Ellwanger • Oklahoma Arts Council Ceremonies ever. Brenda Granger • Jennifer Holt 2nd place • Jordan Hopkins • JA Pryse • Cerebros de los Muertos - We appreciate all the sponsors Stacy O’Daniel • Melissa Owens • Oklahoma History Center and donors for their support of Jeremy Springer • Heidi Vaughn • rd OMA and Oklahoma museums. Emily White • Karen Whitecotton 3 place We also appreciate The Springer Quizzards of Oz - Friends of Company for offering a $1000 We look forward to Smarties Maggie Brown match, which was fully matched 2022 and hope you will thanks to the generous trivia participate. More information to players. come once the planning begins.

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OKMuseums.org 16 Oklahoma Humanities Accepting Grant Applications OMA Receives RedBud You’ve developed the perfect strengthens communities by Award project. Now find the perfect grant! helping Oklahomans learn The Oklahoma Museums about the human experience, Association was honored to Oklahoma Humanities (OH) understand new perspectives, be presented with a 2021 is accepting applications from and participate knowledgeably Merit Award for Best COVID Oklahoma nonprofits wishing to in civic life. The humanities— Collaboration. at the RedBud apply for Major Grant awards of disciplines such as history, Awards Ceremony on June up to $10,000 or Challenge Grant literature, film studies, ethics, 29, 2021 for their Museum awards of up to $20,000. Grant and philosophy—offer a deeper Open to the Public Guideline applications are reviewed by understanding of ourselves and Considerations. This resource was developed for Oklahoma the OH Board of Trustees in late others by confronting us with the museums as part of their toolkit September and applicants are questions, values, and meanings when planning their reopening notified of funding decisions by of the human experience. As for business including tourists, October 1. the nonprofit, state partner for following closure from COVID-19. the National Endowment for the WHAT THEY’RE LOOKING FOR Humanities, OH brings people The Oklahoma Travel Industry Cultural programming on together to explore these ideas Association takes pride in the local level that supports through programming and recognizing Oklahoma tourism our mission to strengthen community grants that support attractions, destination marketing communities by helping book discussions, exhibits, film organizations, and journalists Oklahomans learn about the festivals, teacher institutes, for their outstanding efforts to human experience, understand and more. OH engages people serve and promote Oklahoma’s tourism industry with the RedBud new perspectives, and participate in their own communities, awards. Lt. Governor Matt Pinnell knowledgeably in civic life. providing forums for education, along with Jennifer Reynolds critical thinking, and productive emceed the awards recognizing OH grants can fund a variety civil discourse. outstanding marketing efforts by of humanities-based projects, leading organizations from across including exhibits, lectures, the state. panel discussions, websites, film festivals, and more. OMA also congratulates the deserving museums who received HOW TO SUBMIT RedBud Awards including the • Visit our website and explore American Banjo Museum, the grant process and its Edmond Historical Society & Museum and Oklahoma City guidelines National Memorial & Museum. • Using our online grant system, complete and submit your mandatory draft application no later than August 1 • Submit your final application

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OKMuseums.org 17 October 28 Webinar - Building the Foundations of Distance Learning in Your Museum One result of the pandemic made museums think and producer of both the Microsoft Libraries more about new ways to engage their remote and Museums Podcast and her own podcast, audience. Join us for a continuation of this thought- Museum Buzz. provoking topic as Emily Kotecki presents an information packed webinar which is designed for Prior to consulting, she any museum wanting to start a distance learning created award-winning program but asking, “Where do I begin?” Through distance learning discussions and interactivity, the webinar will help programs and interpretive museums of any size examine the key building tools at the North Carolina blocks for online learning programs. Museum of Art.

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OKMuseums.org 18 around the state What’s new and happening in Oklahoma museums Oklahoma Museum of Poetry, A Life in Looking: The Creighton Locust Grove. More Gilbert Collection on exhibit through December 31 at Fred Har-Ber Village Museum, Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Grove, is hosting a fiber arts Norman. More weekend on July 24-25. More Join SKELETONS: Museum of OMA District Representatives and District 3 Osteology, OKC for a special adult Forensic Night on July 10 to members submit news for inclu- D’Lese Travis, Dist. 3 Rep. solve real crime cases. More sion in MuseNEWS. Contact infor- General Tommy Franks Leader- mation appears below. Submis- ship Institute and Museum District 5 sion deadlines are March 1, June 580.726.5900 Jason Harris, Dist. 5 Rep. 1, September 1 and December 1. [email protected] 405.830.6830 [email protected] District 1 From Start to Finish: Exploring Karen Whitecotton, Dist. 1 Rep. the Artist’s Process on exhibit through August 6 at The Edmond Historical Society & OKPOP Wigwam Gallery, Altus. More Museum, Edmond, opens their 918.282.3317 Edmond’s Route 66 exhibit as [email protected] Pawnee Goes Pop: Reclaimed part of The Route 66 Blue Hippo Art hands-on art event on July Festival on August 6-7. More Frank Phillips Foundation, 17 at Pawnee Bill Ranch and which owns/operates Woolaroc Museum, Pawnee. More Women of the Banjo on exhibit through May 2022 at American Museum and Frank Phillips Home, The John Hammer Art Exhibit Banjo Museum, OKC. More welcomes new CEO/Director on display through August 21 Kevin Hoch on August 1. at Cherokee Strip Regional The Painters of Pompeii: Roman Heritage Center, Enid. More Frescoes from the National The Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa, Archaeological Museum, Naples will close the doors of its current Sun Patterns, Dark Canyon: on exhibit through October 17 at home to the public at end of The Paintings and Aquatints of Oklahoma City Museum of Art, day July 4 so that a new facility Doel Reed (1894-1985) exhibit OKC. More can be built. The museum will opening July 6 at Oklahoma host pop-up art and education State University Museum of experiences throughout Tulsa Art, Stillwater. More during the closure. District 4 Oklahoma Sculpture Society on exhibit at The Museum Broken Amanda Boehm-Garcia, Dist. 4 Rep. Arrow, Broken Arrow, beginning Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art 405.325.2297 August 6. More Assisting Oklahoma [email protected] museums in their District 2 B. Byron Price is retiring from efforts to Jordan Boyd, Dist. 2 Rep. educate, inform Dobson Museum the University of Oklahoma and entertain. 918.542.5388 where he has served as Director [email protected] of the Charles M. Russell Center, Interim Director of Fred Jones Jr. That is our mission. Doug Zook is retiring from the Museum of Art and Director of Support our mission Oklahoma Forest Heritage Center. University of Oklahoma Press. Support OMA In the Dark on exhibit through Firewheel Folk: Oklahoma Donate TODAY! Wildflowers in Poetry exhibit September 12 at Sam Noble celebration on July 17 at Rural Museum, Norman. More

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