Comments on: How to get money, money, money for wild and crazy times!!

By: Eric Johnson

Eric Johnson — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 22:48:19 +0000

I’m sure you’d like to hear from other academics more than another library/museum type, Jeff, but I can say we, too, are interested in this topic. Specifically, I’d love to get everybody’s thoughts on the most effective ways to talk to admins about the value of these kinds of undertakings. I get a lot of feeling that they think all this technology stuff is important, but they often have no idea how to integrate the idea into their constructs of how the institution works, how it fits the mission, and so on.

By: Jeffrey McClurken

Jeffrey McClurken — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 23:42:56 +0000

@Musebrarian and @epistemographer — Sounds great! Any other brave souls willing to talk about strategic planning at a tech conference? What are the issues we should be talking about in this session?

By: Musebrarian

Musebrarian — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 22:14:43 +0000

I’d second @spistemographer’s comments. Jeffery, I don’t think this needs to be divorced from discussions about university/college strategic planning since academic libraries, archives and museums face similar challenges about how they fit into larger campus-wide strategies.

By: Jmcclurken

Jmcclurken — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:16:25 +0000

Yes, of course; I didn’t mean to be exclusionary. I suspect the planning process and funding models differ somewhat from the university/college model, but there’s still a great deal of overlap for those of us making the case for digital humanities.

By: epistemographer

epistemographer — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:11:24 +0000

Add libraries/archives/museums into the discussion, and I’m *so* all over this topic. As Director of Digital Strategy and Scholarship at my institution, this is more or less what I spend most of my time thinking about.