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October 31, 2007
IMLS Press
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Museum, Library, and Business Leader Exchange Views on
Leadership in Peer-to-Peer Forum
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Front row: Anne
Radice, Ira Revels, Matthew Braun, William Spitzer,
Amanda Kodeck, Sven Haakanson. Middle row: Karen
Brosius, Tracie Hall, Melissa Chiu, Stacey Aldrich,
Melanie Huggins, Robert Finlay. Back row: Felton
Thomas, Jr., Mark Wright (not pictured: Dionne Mack-Harvin).
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WASHINGTON, DC--Emerging
museum and library leaders and business champions joined
the National Museum and Library Board, which advises the
Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), in a
peer-to-peer networking forum Oct. 23 in Washington, DC.
The meeting was supported by the President’s Committee
for the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH).
Following the inaugural IMLS Leadership
Lecture by Robert L. Dilenschneider, Founder and Principal
of the Dilenschneider Group, the previous evening, Anne-Imelda
Radice, PhD., IMLS Director, and Adair Margo, PCAH Chair,
convened a panel discussion to explore how libraries and
museums can attract the next generation of leaders.
“Everything is about communication,”
said Melanie Huggins, director of the Saint Paul Public
Library, a theme to which others contributed. Communicating
to the public how museums and libraries contribute to
community prosperity is crucial, Huggins added. Museums
and libraries that seek the expertise and advice of potential
donors rather than always seeking dollars will ultimately
be more successful fund raisers, said Robert J. Finlay,
Managing Partner of Hillcrest Capital Partners LLC. Mark
Wright, Director of Partnerships of the National Children’s
Museum, noted that partnerships with the community are
essential; they strengthen communities and provide real
value to the public.
Panelists included:
- Moderator Karen Brosius, Executive Director
of the Columbia Museum of Art and Member of the National
Museum and Library Services Board
- Robert J. Finlay, Managing Partner of Hillcrest
Capital Partners LLC
- Melanie Huggins, director of the Saint Paul Public
Library
- Mark Wright, director of partnerships at the
National Children’s Museum
Museum and Library representatives included:
- Stacey Aldrich, deputy state librarian of
the California State Library
- Matthew Braun, executive director of Philadelphia’s
Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial
- Melissa Chiu, director of the Asia Society
Museum in New York
- Sven Haakanson, executive director of the
Alutiiq Museum
- Tracie Hall, assistant dean at the Graduate
School of Library and Information Science at Dominican
University
- Amanda Kodeck, manager of School Programs
at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore
- Dionne Mack-Harvin, executive director of
the Brooklyn Public Library system
- Ira Revels, project manager of a collaborative
digital initiative at Cornell University Library
- Shirlene Spicer, curator for community history at
the North Carolina Museum of History in Raleigh
- William Spitzer, vice president for programs,
exhibits, and planning at the New England Aquarium
- Felton Thomas, Jr., regional branch services director
for the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District
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