The last presentation of the Outreach to Allies Session at the AIC Annual Meeting 2012 was an interactive session organized by the Collection Care Network. The leadership team of the network designed it as a way to identify priorities and projects for the network. Imagine nine groups of 7 to 9 people sitting around tables discussing the content of a nine different short videos. Each video presented a collection care challenge or question. The discussion aimed to suggest projects the Collection Care Network could develop that would provide tools to overcome the challenge or answer the question. Now imagine people engaged in conversation. So engaged they didn\u2019t get up for food when asked to do so! So engaged they had to be asked a second time!! Now you have a very small idea of what the session was like. This particular post gives you more details about the discussion at Table 1. Look for the other 8 posts if you would like to review all the discussions.<\/p>\n
Table<\/strong> One:<\/strong> I greatly appreciate the importance of good mounts both for visitor experience and for conservation so I was quick to volunteer to moderate the discussion at this table.\u00a0 Due to the diversity of issues raised in the video and of perspectives around the table our discussions quickly became wide ranging.\u00a0 Our table\u2019s discussion dealt more with how we collaborate rather than what topics we deal with first.<\/p>\n The video:<\/strong> <\/strong>The video presenter was Shelley Uhlir, staff mount maker at the National Museum of the American Indian<\/a>. \u00a0Shelley loved the idea of bringing together different but complimentary disciplines, of mount making and conservation.\u00a0 She had seen the power of such collaboration in a mount-making forum held at the Smithsonian in 2010.\u00a0 In that venue a wonderful conversation and exchange of ideas between mount makers and conservators took place.\u00a0 Shelley hopes the CCN could make that sort of exchange available anywhere and anytime.\u00a0\u00a0 She went on to suggest a wide range of issues to address and kinds of information to exchange.<\/p>\n