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MUSEUM COMPUTER NETWORK ANNOUNCES ON-LINE CONFERENCE REGISTRATION NOW AVAILABLE! Plan now to attend MCN's Annual Conference, Nov 2 - 5, 2005, in Boston. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Join hundreds of your professional colleagues at Boston's elegant Omni Parker House for DIGITS FUGIT! Preserving Knowledge into the Future. Early Bird registration is now open for MCN @ Boston, November 2nd - 5th. Registration forms, secure online registration and travel information are available at http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2005/mcn2005registration.htm In addition to great sessions addressing digital longevity, standards, and other technological issues in museums, the conference will feature: Alexander Rose, Executive Director of the Long Now Foundation, delivering this year's Blackaby Keynote address. Mr. Rose's talk, entitled "Designing for Longevity," will weave elements of his work in long-term preservation with current issues in electronic media. Howard Besser, Director of the Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program at NYU, and one of the most thoughtful mentors of our community, will deliver a plenary address during the Thursday evening reception, offering a look backwards and into the future of our collective endeavor. Thursday night reception at the Fogg Art Museum Conference attendees will spend a wonderful evening with friends and colleagues viewing the Special Exhibition: Degas at Harvard (http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/degas/pages/frameset.html) Pre and post conference workshops: The Nuts and Bolts of Building a Digital Collection for the Whole Museum. Cataloging Cultural Objects Bootcamp Managing a Digitization Project Content Management Strategies and Systems Immediately preceding MCN in the same venue, NEDCC will present the newest in their series of acclaimed two-day conferences, The Persistence of Memory: Stewardship of Digital Assets. http://www.nedcc.org/pom/pomcover.htm Register for both today! Full conference program is available online at http://www.mcn.edu/Mcn2005/mcn2005sessions.htm