August went by quickly but not without an impact!
In the "define irony" department: A disaster preparedness workshop for library and registration staff scheduled here for August 27, had to be re-scheduled on account of . . . you guessed it! . . . a DISASTER!!
In the "define irony" department: A disaster preparedness workshop for library and registration staff scheduled here for August 27, had to be re-scheduled on account of . . . you guessed it! . . . a DISASTER!!
Here is a shot from inside the museum at the lake that fortunately is once again the front lawn. We were lucky though - some water in the building, but no harm to collections. Check out this link for some video footage of the flooding around the museum from local news:
http://www.wcnc.com/video/news-index.html?nvid=276533 Thanks for sending this Leslie!
http://www.wcnc.com/video/news-index.html?nvid=276533 Thanks for sending this Leslie!
In the "survey sez" dept:I know I'm dating myself with that heading but anyway many thanks to all our friends who completed the survey about MARCO and gave us some excellent feedback. We will be tweaking MARCO based on the feedback we received so look forward to some improvements (IMHO) to come.
In the great gifts department, Robert and Daisy Rieke have bestowed a lovely collection of books and exhibition catalogs on Käthe Kollwitz that complements their gift of Kollwitz prints to the museum. Thank you so much! Also a big thank you to Jean Thomas and her tremendous gift of books on art and antiques - we are still counting but it looks to be over 200 titles! WOW!
New titles to look for include:
- Carrie Rebora Barratt's Gilbert Stuart, a (dare we say?) definitive monograph on this important artist from the Met.
- Edward Tufte's Envisioning Information to get our brains thinking in different ways.
- China Design Now from the V& A - a stunning visual followup for those of us who didn't get enough from the Bejing Olympics.
- Richard Powell's To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities - a complex project; an important exhibition; and an overdue thank-you to the academic institutions that preserve and celebrate these collections.
- And for our fashionistas: Surfers, Soulies, Skinheads and Skaters: Subcultural Style from the Forties to the Nineties - "an audacious panorama of street style from Beatnik to Hippie to Cyberpunk, and its influence on high fashion" from those wacky folks at the V&A.
In the volunteer recognition department: A shout-out to our dedicated band of library volunteers!
Ellen Show, who aids with barcoding and with issues in the Delhom Library;
and Allison Tyous, who is also helping out with barcoding and will be working on a scanning project. Thank you all!
And a very special shout-out to Doris Anne Bradley, volunteer extraordinaire, who is recovering from surgery - Thank you and get well soon!!
And in the crunching numbers dept: As you may know, Joe got the Mint Wiki site and MARCO set up with Google Analytics so we can track visits to both and see what folks are looking at, how much time they are spending on what and where they are "visiting" from; you know, good geeky number stuff. Anyway, just to give you an idea, here is just a little bit of the info gathered:
And in the last but not least dept: If you are out and about tonight - especially if you are already downtown at the OAA opening, "crawl" on down to Hodges Taylor and see Lynn Saville's photography exhibition! Lynn was featured in an exhibition here in 2007!
And in the crunching numbers dept: As you may know, Joe got the Mint Wiki site and MARCO set up with Google Analytics so we can track visits to both and see what folks are looking at, how much time they are spending on what and where they are "visiting" from; you know, good geeky number stuff. Anyway, just to give you an idea, here is just a little bit of the info gathered:
- Even though MARCO is just out, we've had over 285 visits from outside and the average time spent is over 8 minutes!
- The exhibition page that the most people have looked at on the Mint Wiki is . . . (drumroll, please) The Brilliant Period of American Cut Glass (!) with 224 visits! The rest of the top five, in order of popularity are: The Art of Affluence, Scene in America, Possibilities, and American Scene. Interesting, huh?
- The Mint Wiki has had visitors from 36 countries! The top five are: U.S. (of course), UK, Canada, Australia and India!
- Mint Wiki has averaged 17 visitors a day over the last month! Does this mean I get to add these to library stats?
And in the last but not least dept: If you are out and about tonight - especially if you are already downtown at the OAA opening, "crawl" on down to Hodges Taylor and see Lynn Saville's photography exhibition! Lynn was featured in an exhibition here in 2007!
