Board of Directors

Well, today we had a board of directors meeting. The board appears to be split up into several different committees and I attended the one designated for archival and curatorial departments (of which I work for). Some things that were discussed, I had no idea what they were talking about. Other things were fairly interesting... Bouncing off exhibit ideas, ways to draw the public in and get them more interested more often, the upcoming exhibit and its progress, etc. MMM has consumed another museum out of Portland, ME, the Portland Harbor Museum and with that, has increased the museum's archives. Finding space to house these things or if they are even worth holding on to is obviously an issue and was talked about quite about as well.

The museum is moving to the usage of a archival software called "Past Perfect" sometime in the near future as well. When working at the National Archives, we did have some programs that were utilized for the archives and finding aids but it was more or less excel spreadsheets. I find it interesting that software has been specifically developed for this sort of work.