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<br /> Total Immersion: Creating Interactive, Immersive 1 1
<br /> Experiences on the Museum Floor
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<br /> connect with visitors on a personal level.Join the conversation
<br /> with colleagues who have created such experiences to discuss
<br /> their exhibits,share lessons learned,ask questions,and explore {
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<br /> Chair:Jason Crabill, Manager,Curatorial Services,Ohio Historical ,`
<br /> Society,Columbus,OH . t� y9j�} _
<br /> The Ways We Word: Nomenclature and Other Data 3
<br /> Standards for Documenting Collections
<br /> Computers have radically changed the way museums manage Making Friends with Failure
<br /> and share information about their collections. Presenters
<br /> will discuss various controlled vocabularies and will update Have you ever failed?Are you afraid to fail?If so,this session
<br /> attendees on the latest developments concerning AASLH's is for you.Come share your biggest fails in a safe environment,
<br /> Nomenclature.Attendees will have an opportunity to share and learn to use failure as a powerful tool for greater success.
<br /> their own experiences regarding the benefits and challenges of Learn concrete tools to help you understand failure's role in the
<br /> data standards. creative process and begin to build a learning community of
<br /> Chair: Paul Bourcier,Chief Curator,Wisconsin Historical Society, history professionals who are failure-friendly,opening up space
<br /> Madison,WI for the challenges of our work to lead to greater institutional
<br /> transformation.
<br /> Chair:Linda Norris,Principal,The Uncatalogued Museum,Treadwell,NY
<br /> 10:15-10:45 am
<br /> Break Scrapbooks: Personal and Community History in the
<br /> Digital Age
<br /> CONCURRENT SESSIONS The artifact(s)most likely to make you grab your head in your
<br /> hands is...that group of scrapbooks!But what if you could go
<br /> back to your institution with resources and strategies to preserve
<br /> 10:45 am-12 pm and/or digitize these materials successfully—regardless of insti-
<br /> tutional size?Join us and you will!
<br /> 2015 Annual Meeting Roundtable Chair:Alix Bentrud,Preservation Services, LYRASIS,Atlanta,GA
<br /> The program committee for the 2015 AASLH Annual Meeting
<br /> in Louisville, KY,wants to hear your ideas for making the Understanding Historic Bridges: State and Local
<br /> next meeting better.What did you like about the meeting? Approaches to Identification, Preservation,
<br /> What should we have done differently?Members of the 2015
<br /> Annual Meeting program committee should attend.All meeting Interpretation, and Management
<br /> attendees are welcome. Groups and individuals may be asked about a local historic
<br /> Chair: Kyle McKoy,Vice President, Education and Exhibits, Indiana bridge. Is the bridge significant?Can it be saved,and how? Is it
<br /> His Society, Indianapolis, IN safe?Who will pay for it?How can we research and interpret it?
<br /> Who researches bridges?Bridge historians,engineers,and state
<br /> Connecting through Empathy: Inviting Visitors to Play a agency specialists suggest creative approaches.
<br /> Chair: Kristen Zschomler,Supervisor, Historian,and Archaeologist,
<br /> Role Cultural Resources Unit, Minnesota Department of Transportation,St.
<br /> As exhibits address a desire for immersive experiences that Paul, MN
<br /> connect visitors to the past using emotion and empathy,devel-
<br /> opers and educators are trying new interpretive techniques to The Visitor Experience: Customer Service to Programming
<br /> connect visitors with the experiences of real people.This session Many factors contribute to the satisfaction of your museum visi-
<br /> will explore case studies and evaluation data from projects that tors'experience.Join this roundtable discussion and examine
<br /> have used variations of this technique. how to take a holistic look at the visitor experience through
<br /> Cha r: Eloise Batic, Director, Exhibitions Research and Development, many managerial tools and examine how to stay forward-looking
<br /> Ind na Historical Society, Indianapolis, IN
<br /> in order to focus on changes that can be made within limited
<br /> resources.
<br /> Chair: Megan Wood,Associate Vice President, Education and Visitor
<br /> Experience, Historic Ford Estates,Grosse Pointe, MI
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