April 2018
Case Study: Activities module
How The Auckland Art Gallery manages their Outward Loans
The Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki uses the Outward Loan file from the Activities module, together with Procedural Control, to help manage their busy outward loans program. This ensures that all loan requests are well documented, and processed in a consistent, streamlined fashion.
When a formal loan request is submitted to the gallery, a new Outward Loan record is created with a procedural status of Request Received. Relevant information is entered in the appropriate fields, including the Loan Start and End Dates, Borrower, Exhibition Itinerary, Exhibition Title, and any staff involved in assessing or preparing the artworks.
Upcoming Events
Museums and the Web conference – Vancouver
April 18 – 21, 2018
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Training in Phoenix, Arizona, USA
May 2, 2018 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
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Museums Galleries Australia National Conference, Melbourne
We will have a stand at the Museums Galleries Australia National Conference.
June 4-17, 2018
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From The Support Portal
Time to check your backup process
We have noticed a concerning trend for many of our clients. Some sites are backing up Vernon CMS, but only for a few days or weeks before the backup copy is overwritten. In some cases, the Vernon CMS backup is overwritten daily. This does not protect you from corruption or mistakes not identified immediately because you can only restore to the day before.
Check that you *archive* copies of Vernon CMS. You should have a history of copies of the system. You should be able to access your backups in an emergency.
What does your institution do with its backups? Overwrite or archive?
You can read about backup processes on our Customer Support Portal. There is also a help topic in Vernon CMS (“Backing up the system”) that outlines a typical backup schedule.
Please contact us immediately if you have any concerns. We are always happy to talk to your IT service provider.
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Collections recently (re)published with Browser module
As you may have seen, the Sarjeant Gallery has had great success with their website redesign. Following this here are two more collections published as microsites created with the Browser module.
The Frick Pittsburgh
You can explore the collection by colour, using features first developed for the Sarjeant Gallery.
Wollongong Art Gallery
Popular on our Facebook and Twitter pages
These are recent popular posts on our social media channels.
On Sunday, April 29, 2018, Human Flow will be screened simultaneously across the United States. If you are interested in hosting a public screening in a school, library, community center or elsewhere, you can find out more from ro*co films. From @aiww
Read about “Human Flow”.
New Vincent van Gogh drawing discovered, via @TheArtNewspaper
Read about the newly discovered Vincent van Gogh drawing.
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