Professional opportunities Jan. 28, 2014

29 January 2014 – editors

ANNCT:  LYRASIS announces CollectionSpace, an open source, web-based collections management system (CMS) for museums and other collecting organizations

CFP:  “How do we choose? The stories we collect, the ones we don’t” – Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region conference, April 24-25, 2014, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DEADLINE:  Jan. 30, 2014

CFP: Immigration, Nation and Public History, June 18, 2014, London, U.K.
DEADLINE:  Jan. 31, 2014

CFP: Seventh International Conference on the Inclusive Museum, Aug. 4-6, 2014, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
DEADLINE:  Feb. 13, 2014

CFP:  10th Annual Indigenous and American Studies Storytellers of the Americas Conference, New York, New York, U.S.
EXTENDED DEADLINE:  Feb. 15, 2014

CFP:  “Unofficial Histories,” a public conference to discuss how society produces, presents, and consumes history beyond official and elite versions of the past, June 7-8, 2014, Huddersfield, U.K.
DEADLINE:  Feb. 28, 2014

CFP:  The American West Center at Fifty, Sept. 19-20, 2014, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
DEADLINE:  March 1, 2014

CFP:  Museums and Social Issues: A Journal of Reflective Discourse seeks original articles, exhibition and book reviews
DEADLINE:  April 21, 2014

CFP: Travelling Memories: Lives in Transition (Finnish Oral History Network symposium), Nov. 27-28, 2014, Helsinki, Finland
DEADLINE:  May 26, 2014

CONF: Regional and National Meetings of the Association for Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums

• New England Regional Meeting, March 15-16, 2014, at Shelburne Farms, Vermont, U.S.
• Southeast and Midwest (MOMCC) Regions, March 6-8, 2014, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
• Mid-Atlantic Regional meeting, March 28-29, 2014, at thePeter Wentz Farmstead, March 28-29, 2014, Landsdale, Pennsylvania, U.S.
• ALHFAM annual meeting and conference, June 21-25, 2014, at Heritage Park Historical Village in Calgary, Alberta, Canada

EDU: New seminar from the National Preservation Institute on Historic Windows: Managing for Preservation, Maintenance, and Energy Conservation, March 18-19, 2014, Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S.
ADVANCE REGISTRATION DEADLINE:  Feb. 4, 2014

EDU: The Association for Documentary Editing (ADE) welcomes applications for the 43rd Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents, to be held 20–24 July 2014 in Louisville, Kentucky.
DEADLINE:  March 15, 2014

PUB: First 2014 issue of CAMOCnews about city museums available online now