Call for Proposals - Deadline Approaching

34th Museum Computer Network Conference
Access to Assets: Return on Investment
November 8-11, 2006
Pasadena, CA

Proposal Deadline: February 16, 2006
Proposal Submission Forms: http://www.mcn.edu/conferences/

Nonprofit businesses such as ours need to stay current, and stay 
solvent. We must be able to answer the tough questions asked in these 
lean financial years. How do we ensure the investment made today, in 
staff time and equipment, will justify the expense? What are some 
innovative new ways to produce more value in a time of severe budget 
constraints?

How do we maintain and enhance access to our assets, whether they are 
assets in the broader sense, such as intellectual capital or even our 
institution’s presence on the Internet; or in the more defined sense, 
such as data and images?

Our program will focus on ways to evaluate and demonstrate effective 
return on investment in knowledge management technology, but MCN 
conferences are always open for presentations on any museum-related 
technologies and concerns in our fields. Accordingly, the Program 
Committee is seeking presentations based on current and planned 
activities or research that focus on one of the following broad areas of 
interest:

    * Digital Assets Management

    * Collection Information Management

    * Digital Rights Management

    * Electronic Publications

    * Imaging Technologies

    * Cyber Communities

    * Intellectual Property Rights

    * Management Issues, including Funding

    * Membership and Fundraising

    * Multimedia and Streaming Technologies

    * Planning and Implementing Technology

    * Point of Sale and e-commerce

    * Research and Evaluation

    * Standards and Interoperabilit

Proposals will be accepted in one of the following three formats:
panels, workshops, or roundtables. Each session must have a
chairperson responsible for finding other speakers and coordinating
logistics. All chairs must be affiliated with an institutional member
of MCN or be an individual MCN member. Topics for the sessions should
fall into at least one of the categories listed on the proposal form.
All proposals for sessions and/or workshops must be submitted on the
Call for Proposals form. To obtain more specific information, visit
the MCN website, http://www.mcn.edu.

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