News Museums Can Use You Are Invited to Attend Museums Advocacy Day (MAD) 2020 M February 24-25 in Washington, D.C
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useNEWS News museums can use You are Invited to Attend Museums Advocacy Day (MAD) 2020 M February 24-25 in Washington, D.C. O M A Museums Advocacy Day is a unique opportunity to join with fellow museum professionals and supporters to make the case for museums. O K L A H O M A Join the OMA leadership in taking the collective Oklahoma museum voice to Capitol Hill. Come walk the halls of congress with us and let our MUSEUMS House and Senate members know how important museums are to the A S S O C I A T I O N economy, education, quality of life, and more! Volume 51, No. 1 • Winter 2020 Together as a field, we have defeated several threats to eliminate federal Available to OMA members Jan 1; agencies supporting museums, but we must keep making our case to posted online for public Feb 1 Congress. Legislators do not know how their decisions affect museums if they do not hear directly from you-the museums and people they represent. The resources and insights you will gain as a participant will help INSIDE: sustain your museum’s future and the future of the field. Join us February 5 24-25 on Capitol Hill and be a part of our collective movement. New OMA board members 8-9 OMA is a proud partner in Museums Advocacy Day and as such, all OMA Disaster response members can register at the special registration rate of $49 for Museums Advocacy Day. Please use the code 20OMA when registering. 10 Oklahoma Museums Week We must remain vigilant in the continued battle for federal resources. 11 We need our Oklahoma advocates to engage with their legislators each MARC course year to ensure they are well informed on the issues vital to Oklahoma museums. 12 Conference proposals Join the OMA leadership as they visit Capitol Hill and the Oklahoma 16-18 Congressional Delegation. Good news about flights to Washington D.C., Southwest Airlines now offers a direct flight to Reagan National Airport Sponsorship opportunity from Oklahoma City, and at last check, they were a reasonable rate. Please check the American Alliance of Museums website for updates. DONATE OKMuseums.org 1 OMA Board of Directors director's desk Dan Provo • President The Census and Your Museum Oklahoma History Center, OKC Richard Ellwanger • Vice President Museums and libraries have an important role Seminole Nation Museum, Wewoka in the upcoming 2020 Census, which begins Delaynna Trim • Treasurer April 1, 2020, Census Day. As you know, every Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Shawnee 10 years, the United State Census counts every Ken Busby • Sceretary resident in the United States. An accurate count is Route 66 Alliance, Tulsa important to our state, for many reasons, including Jennifer Holt • Immediate Past President determining how many U.S. representatives Will Rogers Memorial Museums, Claremore our state is allowed as well as the amount of federal funds our state receives, which represents Jordan Boyd • District 2 Rep. approximately $1,800 per person and to have Dobson Museum, Miami Brenda Granger an historical record of those who have lived in Executive Director Maggie Brown • District 1 Rep. Oklahoma. An undercount of Oklahomans could be Tulsa Historical Society, Tulsa result in a loss of representation, funding and incomplete historical Bill Bryans • At-Large Rep. data. Oklahoma State University, Stillwater Susan Buchanan • At-Large Rep. Here are a few ideas to get your museum started on how they can Gilcrease Museum, Tulsa help the community around them be counted – provide Census Lauren Daughety • At-Large Rep. promotional materials at your museum, hold a special program on Vann & Associates | PR + Marketing, OKC the history of the Census and how your community has changed Marci Donaho • At-Large Rep. using past Census for research, provide a dedicated computer for the Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum, community to use to complete their Census online, and above else, Seminole educate everyone as to the importance it is to be counted. Jason Harris • District 5 Rep. Chisholm Trail Museum & Governor A.J. Museums also understand how important the Census is as an historical Seay Mansion, Kingfisher record. According to the United States Census Bureau, individual James Pepper Henry • At-Large Rep. census records from 1790 to 1940 are maintained by the National The American Indian Cultural Center and Archives and Records Administration, not the U.S. Census Bureau. Museum, OKC Publications related to the census data collected from 1790 to 2010 Jacob Krumwiede • At-Large Rep. Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center, are available at https://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html. Enid Sherry Marshall • At-Large Rep. The Census Bureau’s National Processing Center (NPC) in Science Museum Oklahoma, OKC Jeffersonville, IN, maintains copies of the 1910 to 2010 census Dr. Kelli Mosteller • At-Large Rep. records. Records from the censuses of population and housing are Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural Heri- publicly accessible 72 years after each decennial census’ “Census tage Center, Shawnee Day.” The most recent publicly available census records are from the JA Pryse • At-Large Rep. 1940 census, released April 2, 2012. Carl Albert Congressional Research and Studies Center, Norman After the 72 years have passed, the National Archives and Records Gena Timberman, Esq • At-Large Rep. Administration (NARA) is responsible for making the records publicly The Luksi Group, OKC available for viewing or purchase. Therefore, records from the 1950 D’Lese Travis • District 3 Rep. census will be released on April 1, 2022. General Tommy Franks Leadership Insti- tute and Museum, Hobart Individuals may request their own records (before they are publicly Valorie Walters • At-Large Rep. available) via the Census Bureau’s Age Search service. This service Chickasaw Cultural Center, Sulphur provides individual information from censuses that are still protected Mark White • District 4 Rep. by the 72-year rule, but only to the named person, his or her heirs, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Norman or legal representatives. There is a Congressionally-mandated fee Karen Whitecotton • At-Large Rep. for this service. Individuals interested in requesting a search of their Heritage Museum Services, Norman personal census records must complete a form BC-600, Application for Search of Census Records. OMA Staff Brenda Granger • Executive Director We hope that we can count on you Stacy O’Daniel • Administrative & and your museum to help make Program Associate the 2020 Oklahoma Census count a Shana Keith-Ward • Office Assistant success. Jeremy Springer • Contract Bookkeeper Brenda OKMuseums.org 2 How the 2020 Census will invite everyone to respond Every household will have the option of responding online, by mail, or by phone. Nearly every household will receive an invitation to participate in the 2020 Census from either a postal worker or a census worker. 95% of households will receive their census invitation in the mail. Almost 5% of households Less than 1% of households will receive their census invitation will be counted in person by a census when a census taker drops it off. taker, instead of being invited to In these areas, the majority of respond on their own. We do this households may not receive mail in very remote areas like parts of at their home’s physical location northern Maine, remote Alaska, and (like households that use PO in select American Indian areas that boxes or areas recently affected ask to be counted in person. by natural disasters). Note: We have special procedures to count people who don’t live in households, such as students living in university housing or people experiencing homelessness. OKMuseums.org 3 How the 2020 Census will invite everyone to respond What to Expect in the Mail When it’s time to respond, most households will receive an invitation in the mail. Every household will have the option of responding online, by mail, or by phone. Depending on how likely your area is to respond online, you’ll receive either an invitation encouraging you to respond online or an invitation along with a paper questionnaire. Letter Invitation Letter Invitation and Paper Questionnaire • Most areas of the country are likely to respond • Areas that are less likely to respond online online, so most households will receive a will receive a paper questionnaire along with letter asking you to go online to complete the their invitation. The invitation will also include census questionnaire. information about how to respond online or by phone. • We plan on working with the U.S. Postal Service to stagger the delivery of these invitations over several days. This way we can spread out the number of users responding online, and we’ll be able to serve you better if you need help over the phone. We understand you might miss our initial WHAT WE WILL SEND IN THE MAIL letter in the mail. On or between You’ll receive: • Every household that hasn’t already responded will receive reminders and will An invitation to respond March 12–20 eventually receive a paper questionnaire. online to the 2020 Census. (Some households • It doesn’t matter which initial invitation will also receive paper you get or how you get it—we will follow questionnaires.) up in person with all households that don’t respond. March 16–24 A reminder letter. If you haven’t responded yet: March 26–April 3 A reminder postcard. April 8–16 A reminder letter and paper questionnaire. April 20–27 A final reminder postcard before we follow up in person. OKMuseums.org 4 Welcome New OMA Board Members Sherry as a fellow for the Center for the students and as a facilitator for Marshall Advancement of Informal Science women’s ceremonies.