The Imperial War Museum is hiring!

The Imperial War Museum is undertaking a major project to procure and implement a collections management system, comprising collections, library nd archive elements. This is coupled with a project to implement an ntegrated digital asset management system.

The project will ensure that the Museum can centralise collections information from its eight collecting departments, covering the widest
range of media.

The museum is now looking to recruit the following additional staff for this project:

MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE HOSTS SYMPOSIUM: OPEN COLLECTIONS: EXPLORING
ONLINE CULTURAL RESOURCES
Monday, June 18, 9:45 a.m. - 3:45 p.m.

Presented with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services
and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Registration fee: $12 (includes lunch)
Register online at www.movingimage.us/open or call 718-784-4520.

In fewer than fifteen years, the Internet has become an everyday,
indispensable aspect of life, work, and learning, radically changing the
way we access information. Presenting museum collections online, once a
novelty, has become a necessity. Cultural organizations face an array of
choices about how to represent their collections and how to help users
interpret them.

How can institutions build accessible online collections while
simultaneously meeting internal digitization needs? How can standards of