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• Not Just a Gift Shop: Activating Your Retail Store

  • When
    19 Aug 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom
  • Registered
    11 registrants

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  More than just a gift shop, your organization's store can provide visitors, volunteers, staff, and other stakeholders the opportunity to directly support your mission while offering unique, highly-curated, and mission-related items. But where to start?
  

  Using examples from the Maine Maritime Museum store, we'll review existing resources and easy-to-implement ideas to start or improve your organization's retail experience—in person and online. 

  About the presenter:
  Amanda Pleau is the Marketing & Communications Manager at Maine Maritime Museum. She graduated from University of Southern Maine with a BA in Media & Communications and an MFA in Creative Writing. Amanda is a boomerang—she left Maine after graduate school, and after a number of years in western Massachusetts and Los Angeles, she is happy to have settled in Bath with her partner and their four-legged friends.

  Registration for this event closes Friday, August 15.

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• Repairing the Harmful Language in our Catalogs

  • When
    17 Sep 2025
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    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom
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  "Develop cataloging processes and guidelines that address DEAI issues in current catalog and future entries, including offensive language, culturally sensitive content, and biases in descriptions." How does an organization go about tackling a strategic goal like this? Luckily others in the greater museum and archives field have developed Reparative Cataloguing Guides that we can adapt for our individual institutions. 

  Why have a guide? To update outdated, offensive language and add context to transcriptions of creator-derived text. An added benefit? Debunking previous conceptions of our collections as being predominately Anglo-Saxon male-focused as we discover the other voices hiding in plain sight. The guide acknowledges that our sensibilities today do not reflect those of the past or even of the future. Rather than censoring collection content, the guide advises context and content warnings to inform our content-users, with the rare exception for truly offensive language.

  CONTENT WARNING: In this workshop, attendees will grapple with one museum's draft guidelines for Reparative Cataloguing- their choices may not reflect your institution's values; come ready to respectfully disagree and find guidelines that work for you. 
  

  
  About the presenter:
  Cipperly Good is the Richard Saltonstall Jr Curator of Marine History at the Penobscot Marine Museum. She has over 20 years experience working in the museum field, with a masters in Museum Studies and much of her early internships at beloved small local museums. Ms. Good’s mission is to provide the training, advice and exhibit services to the dedicated artifact repositories preserving and creating access to our local and national treasures.

  
  

  MAM members receive discounted rates for workshops. Please login to your account to ensure your discount is applied. Trouble logging in? Email info@mainemuseums.org.

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• Records Management for Repositories

  • When
    17 Oct 2025
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    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Online via Zoom
  • Registered
    2 registrants

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  Any repository, be it an archive, historical society, manuscript collection, or museum, creates and uses records to execute their mission. Good records management increases efficiency, lowers stress, and forestalls legal conflicts— basically it is vital to operations. 

  This workshop will address organizing, filing, naming, and retention of records, as well as back up, access, and vital records.

  Presented by Susie R. Bock, who has a master’s degree in European history and a Master of Library Service and almost 40 years of professional experience in academic special collections.

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