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Derya Golpinar, Registrar, Talks to AIC's Collection Care Network: June 29, 2012; See Derya talk about her experience as both a Registrar and a Collections Manager at two different institutions.
A Day in the Life of a Museum Collections Manager: April 12, 2010; Rebecca Andrews of Seattle's Burke Museum explains just a few of the many things she does to organize and care for the museum's 45,000-object ethnology collection.
Loans Registrar - David McNeff: March 25, 2011; Learn about the role of the Loans Registrar at the National Portrait Gallery.
Art Handling Olympics: March 22, 2010; NY Daily News - Teams compete in the first-ever Art Handling Olympics on the lower East Side.
The Art Handling Olympics: December 8, 2009; Watch more exciting footage from the Art Handling Olympics March 2010 in NYC.
Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD): April 5, 2021; The Association of Art Museum Directors advances the profession by cultivating leadership capabilities of directors, advocating for the field, and fostering excellence in art museums. An agile, issues-driven organization, AAMD has three desired outco…
Collections Stewardship Professional Network - AAM: April 19, 2021; AAM committee focused on the stewardship of collections, archives, and exhibitions, including direct care, handling, documentation, shipping, housing, information management, and all activities related to collections of various types and sizes
ARCS Statement: How to Select a Museum Studies Graduate Program: April 19, 2021; Suggestions on how to chose a Museum Studies Program.
ARCS Statement: ESSENTIAL WORKER: Self-Advocacy During and After the Covid-19 Pandemic: April 26, 2021; Suggestions on how to self-advocate during COVID-19 Pandemic.
ARCS Statement: How to Find a Museum Job: April 26, 2021; Suggestions on various ways to find a job in the museum field.

SOS… help needed! Abilities and knowledge required as an art gallery registrar (Conference Session, 2019): April 26, 2021
Emerging Museum Professionals Roundtable (Conference Session, 2019): April 26, 2021
Keynote Speaker—Joan Baldwin of Leadership Matters: April 28, 2021; Joan Baldwin, Co-Founder of Gender Equity in Museums Movement, presents her keynote address
I'm Gonna Convince You to Tweet #ARCSconf: April 28, 2021; Discusses the best way to disseminate the conference experience is by actively tweeting about it. This session will give you the tools, and encouragement, to effectively tweet #ARCSconf as a brazen act of equity.
A Foot in the Door: Transitioning a Job into a Career: April 28, 2021; Discussion on the regsitration and collections management career path. The panelists started with education, early interests, and jobs, and then discussed how this led to their careers.
Happy by Indiana State Museum & Historic Sites: April 17, 2014
Collections Abroad: Australasian Registrars: November 3, 2017
Avoiding a Crash on the Indie Track (Conference session, 2015): November 15, 2015
Autism in Museums: A Revolution in the Making: July 16, 2019; As we work to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility among museum audiences and in the workplace, we need to attend to the needs of neurodiverse visitors and employees. In today’s post, Claire Madge, founder of the UK-based Autism in…
ARCSchat March 24, 2020 #COVID19 Special: March 24, 2020
ARCSchat October 6, 2020: Career Perspectives Mid-Career Professionals: October 6, 2020
ARCSchat January 5, 2021: Career Perspectives Emerging Museum Professionals: January 5, 2021
ARCSchat Jan. 7, 2020 With Michelle Millar Fisher of Art + Museum Transparency: January 7, 2020
ARCSchat May 7th, 2019: Ask ARCS Anything on YouTube Live!!: May 7, 2019
ARCSchat September 3, 2019: Live! All about #ARCSConf: September 3, 2019
ARCSchat September 2020: Conversation with Joan Baldwin of Leadership Matters: September 1, 2020
ARCSchat May 2022: #MayDay Gameshow Edition w/ the C-Word Podcast: May 3, 2022

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