Dear colleague

Here is this week’s news:

1. Firstly, please take a little time to fill in and submit the SHARE training needs survey, which is really important to help SHARE deliver the best possible calendar; http://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/SHARE-training-survey-2017/ and the Word version is attached. The closing date is 30 April.
2. Wisbech Museum is calling for tenders for its HLF-funded options appraisal and project evaluation; please see the briefs at http://www.wisbechmuseum.org.uk/.
3. The Fitzwilliam Museum is advertising for a Research Assistant, Paintings, Drawings and Prints, closing date 17 April. This is job no. 47886 at http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/JobsDesk.
4. IWM Duxford is advertising for an Admissions Assistant, closing date 17 April. This is job no. 47900 at http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/JobsDesk .

There will be no MiC News next week as I shall be on leave. In the meantime

Have a good Easter!

Dear colleague

Here are this week’s news items:

1. A reminder of the SHARED Enterprise Funding Fair to be held at the Museum of East Anglian Life at Stowmarket on 28 April; for details go to http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/events/shared-enterprise-funding-fair-2/.
2. The next meeting of the SHARE Front of House Forum is at the Verulamium Museum in St Albans on 6 April; for details go to http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/events/front-of-house-forum-working-wonders-commercial-resiliance/.
3. With apologies that the closing date is midday on 6 April, please consider completing the survey of HLF to be found at http://bit.ly/HLFsurvey. It takes c 25 minutes.
4. There is a two-day workshop on Managing Indoor Climate Risks at the Fitzwilliam Museum on 15-16 May.
5. The first of three Society of Museum Archaeology reports on collecting is available at the SMA website.
6. MOLA Headland Infrastructure is advertising for a Senior Community Archaeologist for Cambridgeshire, closing date 16 April, at https://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/Jobs2/full_job_descriptions/47871.htm.
7. The closing date for submissions for the Marsh Trust Awards for Volunteers in Museum Learning is 14 July; for details go to http://www.britishmuseum.org/about_us/volunteers/marsh_awards.aspx.
8. St Edmundsbury and Forest Heath District Councils are advertising for a Heritage Officer – Learning for West Suffolk, closing date 9 April (see attached advert).
9. SHARE now have an excellent new digitisation resource at http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/digitisation-FINAL-FULL.pdf .

Dear colleague

I have to report that Ramsey Rural Museum have been burgled just before their season starts. The Police say that the burglars are targeting places with grass and are looking for sit on mowers, so if you have that sort of gear please double check that is it as secure as possible. In the meantime I’m sure you’ll join me in letting the Ramsey team know they have our sincere best wishes.

This week’s other news:

1. The Cambridgeshire Museums Forum will next meet at the Farmland Museum on the afternoon of 30 June. We will send out the agenda as soon as possible.
2. There are still places left on SHARE’s 23 May session on publishing conservation or collection care research, to be held at Ely. See http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/events/getting-your-conservation-work-published-a-share-conservation-network-event/.
3. IWM Duxford are advertising two posts; a Press Assistant at https://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/Jobs2/full_job_descriptions/47798.htm closing date 31 March, and an Exhibitions Technician at
4. https://www.le.ac.uk/museumstudies/Jobs2/full_job_descriptions/47739.htm, closing date 2 April.
5. The Newsletter of the British Association of Friends of Museum is attached.
6. The University Museum of Zoology is advertising for as Volunteer Co-ordinator at http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/13240/, closing date 18 April.

Dear colleague

Here are this week’s news items:

1. The next meeting of Museums in Cambridgeshire will be at the Cambridge Museum of Technology on the morning of 27 April. I will send out an agenda next week.
2. The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology are advertising for an Education and Outreach Assistant, closing date 7 April. Details at job no. 47690 at http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/museumstudies/JobsDesk.
3. The Fitzwilliam Museum is advertising for a Senior Chief Technician (paintings, drawings and prints), closing date 26 March. Details at http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/13107/.
4. SHARED Enterprise’s second Funding Fair is at the Museum of East Anglian Life in Stowmarket on 28 April and promises to be a great day, as was last year’s. Sign up at http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/events/shared-enterprise-funding-fair-2/.
5. Please find attached information about ‘Prosper’, a new business support programme for organisations such as museums, which opens on 27 March: http://www.creativeunited.org.uk/programme/prosper/.
6. The free copyright advice service, run by Naomi Korn for the East of England, closes on Tuesday 21st March 2017. For information on how to use the service, click here.
7. The 2015-2016 Benchmarking statistics are now available at http://sharemuseumseast.org.uk/benchmarking/. There will be an opportunity to discuss these results at the MiC meeting (see item 1).
8. Could you please let me know if you are planning anything to commemorate women getting the vote in 1918, as I am considering doing a project on this subject?

Dear colleague

Here is this week’s museum news from the County (and a neighbouring one):

1. Essex County Council is advertising for a Museum Development Officer (Maternity Cover), details at https://essexcc.taleo.net/careersection/ecc_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=10754&lang=en. Closing date Wednesday 22 March.
2. This is a reminder that MiC members have access to the Priority User service from Harwell Restoration, initially until 30 September, as per MiC News no. 72. I hope to renew this service from 1 October, but please note that at this level the service does not include free recovery and transport of damaged items to a secure location. Emma Dadson from Harwell will explain the service at the next MiC meeting on 27 April (venue TBA). May I suggest that you note again MiC’s contract number PU1018 and the Hotline number 01235 434373?
3. As a follow on from the last item, is it possible that any MiC member is able to offer emergency storage to fellow members? Please let me know (in confidence if you like) if you think you may be able to help with this.
4. I am currently investigating how the County Council’s ‘Schools News’ distribution service works and will report what I discover.
5. Burwell Museum has a further three batches of items to dispose of (see attached). As previously if you are interested contact contact education@burwellmuseum.org.uk or 01638 605544.
6. The Museum of Cambridge is advertising two posts, both with closing dates of 24 March (see attached).