þÿ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <title> SIAM November 2004 Meeting </title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="siamdirstyle.css"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name="description" content="Website for the Southern Illinois Association of Museums"> <meta name="keywords" content="Illinois, history, museum, library, southern, science, art"> </head> </head> <body> <br> <br> <table width="900" cellpadding="10" cellborder="0"> <tr> <td> <img src="images/siamback5.jpg"> </td> </tr> </table> <table width="900" cellpadding="3" cellborder="0" border="0"> <tr valign="top"> <td width="140"> <div id="sidemenu"> <a href="about.html"> About Us</a> <br> <a href="siamdirectory.html"> Directory</a> <br> <a href="siamcalendar.html"> SIAM Calendar</a> <br> <a href="shome.html"> Home</a> <br> <a href="minutes.html"> Meeting Minutes</a> <br> <a href="resources.html"> Resources</a> <br> <a href="bboard.html"> Bulletin Board </a> <br> <br> </td> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="760"> <div align="center"> <h1> Southern Illinois Association of Museums </h1> </div> <h2> Meeting Minutes November 22, 2004 <br> Host Site: Beatles Mini-Museum, Benton <br> </h2> <br> </div> <h3> Present: </h3> Millie Anderson (WOW Museum), Adrienne Barkley Giffin (John A. Logan College Museum), Claudia Dant (Wabash County Museum), Lori Huffman (The University Museum, SIUC), Mike Jones (General John A. Logan Museum), Eric Livingston (American Fluorite Museum), Pam Madden (The Science Center), Jackie Meadows (WOW Museum), C.J. and Dorothy Schultz (Beatles Mini-Museum), Jeanna Showmaker (The Science Center). <ol> <li> <h3> <a href="siamcalendar.html"> Mark Your Calendar</a> </h3> <ul> <li> <h4> Collection Management Workshop March 19, 2005, Saturday, 9:30am &ndash; 2:00pm, White County Historical Society (Carmi) November 30, Tuesday, 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. </h4> </li> <li> <h4> Development Workshop: April 23, 2005, Saturday, 9am &ndash; 3:30pm, John A. Logan College Museum (Carterville) </li> <li> <h4> Developing Museum Quality Exhibits Workshop: June 18, 2005, Saturday, 9:30am &ndash; 2:00pm, University Museum (SIUC) </h4> </li> </ul> </li> <li> <h3> News from the Illinois Association of Museums </h3> Claudia Dant and Adrienne Barkley Giffin gave a summary of IAM&apos;s October board meeting: <ul> <li> The IAM office has moved to the Tinsley Building. <li> The new directory is being printed and will be mailed soon. <li>The 2005 annual conference will be held in the Fox River Valley area October 12 ­ 14, 2005. <li> The board discussed the state&apos;s elimination of funds going to some museums from off-track betting facilities. IAM supports the reinstatement of these funds and IAM&apos;s Advocacy Committee will work with other groups toward that goal. <li> IAM&apos;s economic impact survey is underway. <li> The awards for the FY 04 public museum capital grant program have not been announced. It is not known when the cycle will begin for the FY 05 grant program. <li> The spring workshop topic will be about interpretive tours on April 11, 2005 in Lockport. <li> The next board meeting will be in January. <li> Contact Claudia (ctdant@shawneelink.net) or Adrienne (museum@jalc.edu) with comments or concerns that you would like IAM to address. </ul> <li> <h3> Marketing Committee Report </h3> The marketing workshop was well received. </li> <li> <h3> Technical Assistance Committee Report </h3> The February round table discussion topic will be recognition of volunteers, staff, donors, and others who contribute to our museums. A survey is being developed for the collection management workshop to clarify the focus of the workshop. The group decided to offer the workshops to non-SIAM members for $30 (SIAM members pay $15). SIAM members include those museums and cultural organizations that reside in our 28 county area. </li> <li> <h3> Development Committee Report </h3> The development workshop is being organized for Saturday, April 23, 2005, at John A. Logan College. </li> <li> <h3> Administrative Committee </h3> The committee is working on the TEIN and articles of incorporation. Responses to the mission statement surveys will be used to draft a SIAM mission statement. </li> <li> <h3> Brochure Committee Report </h3> Dona and Pam are scheduling a meeting with Doc Milner to discuss a grant to help fund the SIAM brochure. Please return directory information forms to Adrienne. </li> <li> <h3> Website Development </h3> Carla has redesigned the SIAM website. Send photographs of your museums for inclusion on the website to Carla Smith. Physical photographs should be mailed to: <br> <br> Carla Smith, University Museum, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL 62901-4508 <br><br> Digital photographs 72 dpi and 6 in wide OR 180 dpi and 4 in wide should be sent in .jpeg format to carlajs@siu.edu. Dates of exhibits and events should also be sent to Carla for inclusion on the SIAM calendar of events. <br> <br> To ensure that we are reaching all museums in the 28 counties we serve, we will go through the new IAM directory and include those museums we have missed on our mailing list. <li> <h3> 2005 Meetings: </h3> Tours begin at 4:00 and meetings begin at 5:00 p.m. <ul> <li> <h4> Monday, February 28, 2005: WOW Museum, Tamms </h4> </li> <li> <h4> March: In lieu of a regular monthly meeting, a lunch meeting will be held during the collection management workshop if necessary. </h4> </li> <li> <h4> April: In lieu of a regular monthly meeting, a lunch meeting will be held during the development workshop if necessary. </h4> </li> <li> <h4> Monday, May 23: Wabash County Museum, Mt. Carmel </h4> </li> <li> <h4> June: In lieu of a regular monthly meeting, a lunch meeting will be held during the exhibit workshop if necessary. </h4> </li> <li> <h4> Monday, July 25: Jackson County Historical Society, Murphysboro </h4> </li> <li> <h4> Monday, August 22: John A. Logan College Museum, Carterville </h4> </li> <li> <h4> Monday, September 26: American Fluorite Museum, Rosiclare </h4> </li> <li> <h4> Monday, October 24: The Science Center & African American Museum of Southern Illinois </h4> </li> <li> <h4> Monday, November 28: White County Historical Society, Carmi </h4> </li> </ul> </li> </ol> <hr> <div id="bottomset"> If you find broken links, have questions or concerns with the site, please email <a href="mailto:carlajs@siu.edu"> the webmaster</a>. 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