A fresh perspective on familiar systems: the Axiell Collections Management Conference 2017
How do museums, libraries and archives keep track of the thousands of objects in their collections? Collections management systems, that’s how. In May, a daring duo from the Fitzwilliam Museum – Georgina Doji, Computer Associate, and Daryl Tappin, Documentation Assistant – travelled to Oxford for the Axiell Collections Management Conference. The conference provided the opportunity to discuss some of these…
Valuing the Visual
Some highlights and reflections from the Valuing the Visual Conference at Sheffield School of Education on 4 and 5 July 2017. At the beginning of July I was fortunate to be able to go to the International Literacies Conference in Sheffield. The conference explored the intersections between written and spoken language and the visual. I was one of the only…
Front of House Q&A: Alina Kozlovski
Alina Kozlovski is a member of the team of graduate student invigilators who help staff the front desk at the Museum of Classical Archaeology. When she’s not in the Museum, Alina is working on a PhD in Roman archaeology. She answered this Q&A from an archaeological dig in Marzuolo, Italy (“Who knew wattle and daub was so interesting?!”). How long…
