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Arizona Convocation 2001

March 4-5, 2001

Prescott, Arizona

Help build a community of Arizonans who collect, manage, and protect the objects, documents, maps, photographs, and other materials that form the state's cultural legacy. Join your colleagues from libraries, archives, museums, and local history societies from around the state to . . .

• strengthen programs supporting Arizona's cultural resources
• share information about what we collect
• discover opportunities for collaborative projects, including exhibitions, collections, and preservation
• promote public access to Arizona collections
• prepare for the future

If you work with or are responsible for collections of Arizoniana, consider attending the Arizona Convocations. You'll have a chance to meet with your fellow registrars, librarians, catalogers, archivists, managers, museum professionals, preservationists, curators, genealogists, historians, cartographers, records managers, and others. Nationally recognized speakers will join us to consider . . .

• what we do and how our jobs are changing
• what the future may hold
• how to connect with our communities
• how we can learn from our colleagues in different fields

The Convocation offers an opportunity for us to step back from our daily tasks to reflect and take stock of what we're doing and how we're doing it.

Featured Speakers

Peter Bishop

You don't need a crystal ball to plan for change and prepare for the future you want. Bishop, a professional futurist, helps people recognize opportunities before they pass by, and to recognize threats before they become crises. Although the future is complex and uncertain, thinking about a variety of possible futures enables people to avoid surprises and plan for contingencies.

Peter Bishop is a professor in the Studies for the Future graduate program at the University of Houston-Clear Lake.

Kathi Dengler and Richard Battle

Libraries, archives, and museums are nothing without the public they serve. Creating a memorable experience for your guests, making the people you serve your primary focus, can alter organizational culture and transform the environment in which you work. Dengler and Battle share their stories and the lessons learned during Strong Museum's transformation from a traditional history museum with an annual attendance of 145,000 to a vital community resource with attendance of more than 325,000.

Kathi Dengler is Vice President for Human Resources and Employee Development, and Richard Battle is Vice President for Guest Services at the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York.

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