Antique Auto Show in Jeffersonville
This event will be held on Saturday, Oct. 25, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Howard Steamboat Museum located at 1101 E. Market St. in Jeffersonville.

The show will feature the 1897 Haynes Apperson, originally owned by the Howards of Jeffersonville, along with many other beautifully restored vehicles from the 1920s through the 1960s. After you finish enjoying the auto exhibit, take a walk through history with a tour of the steamboat museum.  Guided tours will be offered that day at noon and 2 p.m.  This is your opportunity to celebrate our steamboat heritage at a true gem of an attraction on the "sunny side of Louisville". There will be food available as well.

Admission will be free that day, but your generous donations will be gratefully accepted.

For more information visit http://www.steamboatmuseum.org/, call (812) 283-3728 or e-mail HSMSTEAM@aol.com.

Spirits of Marshall County: Spectral Voices in Plymouth
This event will be held on Saturday, Oct. 25, from 7 to 10 p.m. at the Marshall County Historical Museum located at 123 N. Michigan St. in Plymouth.

Step into the past and listen to the voices of Marshall County tell about their lives and times from 1836 to 1986.  As part of the Marshall County Historical Society's 50th Anniversary celebration, the museum is hosting this special evening event. Meet some of the men and women who shaped our community. They will talk about their careers and what it was like living in Marshall County as it grew from a wilderness to the modern community we know today.

It is estimated that it will take 90 minutes to hear all the stories so visitors are encouraged to arrive at the museum between 7 and 8:30 p.m. to start the self-guided tour through the museum.

The cost is $5 per person and free for children under five. Tickets may be purchased at the museum or from any historical society board member. There are a limited number of tickets for this event. 

For more information, contact the museum at (574) 936-2306 or visit http://www.mchistoricalsociety.org/.

Quilt Program and Exhibit in Plainfield
This program will take place on Tuesday, Oct. 28, at 7 p.m. at the Plainfield-Guilford Township Public Library in Plainfield.

Quilts have a long history of providing comfort, yet many are also beautiful works of art and fine needlecraft. Peggy Long, board member of the Quilters Hall of Fame in Marion, will talk about this unique organization and its programs and collections. Learn about Marie Webster, author of the first book of quilt history and owner of a thriving early 20th century home-based mail order quilt pattern business. 

Registration is required for the program. Please call (317) 839-6602 x 114 or visit http://www.plainfieldlibrary.net/.

Mary Lincoln, the Quintessential Hostess with Author Donna McCreary in Scottsburg
This luncheon and lecture will take place on Oct. 30 at noon at the Scott County Heritage Center and Museum in Scottsburg.

McCreary has authored two books, Lincoln’s Table: A President’s Culinary Journey from Cabin to Cosmopolitan and Fashionable First Lady: The Victorian Wardrobe of Mary Lincoln.  McCreary’s presentation, Mary Lincoln, the Quintessential Hostess, will examine the styles, customs and practices employed by Mrs. Lincoln when hosting an event as well as stories about social events involving the Lincoln family. 

Tickets for the luncheon are $12 per person and include lunch with a dessert. Tickets are available at the museum. 

Seating is limited. Please call the museum at (812) 752-1050 for availability.

Ensemble Music Society: Antares
This event will be held on Wednesday, Oct. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in the Frank and Katrina Basile Theater at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center.

The cost is $30 per person, $10 for students ages 19 to 25, and free for students ages 18 and under.

For more information call (217) 254-8915 or visit http://www.ensemblemusic.org/.

“Let's Save It” at the Hinkle-Garton Farmstead
This exhibit will be open on Saturday, Oct. 26, and each last Saturday of the coming months, from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Hinkle-Garton Farmstead located at 2920 E. Tenth St. in Bloomington.

The exhibit, “Let's Save It”: BRI and Historic Preservation in Bloomington through the Memories of Rosemary Miller, chronicles the history of the local preservation movement which led to the founding of Bloomington Restorations, Inc., and honors Miller’s involvement in those early days. Fascinating stories and colorful photos tell about the important “saves” of prominent Bloomington landmarks: the Monroe County Courthouse, Paris Dunning House and Morgan House to name a few.

The exhibit is free to the public.

For more information call BRI at (812) 336-0909 or e-mail bri@bloomingtonrestorations.org.

Fall into Art at the Howard Steamboat Museum
This exhibit will be held Nov. 2 through 30 at the Howard Steamboat Museum located at 1101 E. Market St. in Jeffersonville.

The 7th annual Fall into Art exhibit will feature the work of Paul Albert Plaschke (1880-1954). Though born in Germany, Plaschke worked mainly in Louisville and Chicago as a political cartoonist and Impressionist landscape artist. The exhibit of 29 works includes oils and pastels on loan from The Speed Art Museum, the New Albany–Floyd County Public Library and many generous private collectors. Landscapes and Southern scenes are punctuated by portraits and The Prize Fight.

A valuable catalog including color reproductions of the pieces in the show and two essays—one on Plaschke and the other on the Wonderland Way group of artists—will be available for purchase.

The exhibit is free to the public.

Three events will be held in conjunction with the exhibit:

• An opening reception with remarks by Warren Payne will be held on Sunday, Nov. 2 at 2:30 p.m.
• Remembrances will be held on Sunday, Nov. 9 at 2:30 p.m. Visitors are invited to share personal stories about the artist and his works.
• Art Historian Estill Curtis Pennington, author of the upcoming Kentucky Masterworks from the Frontier Era to the Great Depression, will speak on Sunday, Nov. 16 at 2:30 p.m.

Fall Into Art is funded in part by a grant from the Arts Council of Southern Indiana.

For more information visit http://www.steamboatmuseum.org/ or contact Yvonne B. Knight at (812) 283-3728 or HSMSTEAM@aol.com.

The Tiffany Touch at the President Benjamin Harrison Home
The exhibit will be on display for house tours through Dec. 30 at the President Benjamin Harrison Home located at 1230 N. Delaware St. in Indianapolis.

The Tiffany Touch exhibit includes 19 Tiffany pieces encompassing a variety of works, some on public display for the first time in Indianapolis. Eight pieces are on loan from the Tiffany & Co. Archives in Parsippany, N.J., and 11 pieces are from the Harrison Home’s collection of commemorative pieces and decorative art. 

The IMA has augmented The Tiffany Touch exhibit by loaning the Presidential museum a compote, a vase, a salt cellar and four luncheon knives from its collection.

The exhibit’s jewelry pieces will include a natural pearl and diamond brooch set in platinum, a “grapevine” gold ring with mixed cut pear-shaped green tourmaline, jade earrings set in platinum filigree and a choker-length necklace in a gold and platinum framework set with cushion-cut tourmalines and faceted round tourmalines and diamonds.

In addition, The Tiffany Touch exhibit will display a circular clematis bowl executed in base taille enamel; a white wide-mouth, lidded jar decorated with fruit-bearing olive branches; a peacock-patterned goose-neck Favrile glass vase, which was a wedding gift presented to the former President Benjamin Harrison and his second wife, Mary Lord Dimmick, in 1896.

For more information visit http://www.pbhh.org/.


Fort Wayne Sports History at the Lucas Oil Stadium
A piece of Fort Wayne sports history has recently been placed on display at the new Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.

The Indianapolis Colts purchased copies of two Fort Wayne Friars football team images from the Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society (the History Center). One is from 1910 when the Fort Wayne Friars were still a club team, and the other is from 1915 when they were a professional team sponsored by a local, fraternal organization. These images are on display in the northeast corner of the stadium, in a transition area along the street level concourse. There are four large concrete columns highlighting pieces of Indiana’s early professional football history. Along with the History Center’s Friars images are images of the Hammond Clabbys, the Hammond Pros, the Evansville Crimson Giants and the Friars’ rivals the Muncie Flyers.

For more information call the History Center at (260) 426-2882 or visit http://www.fwhistorycenter.com/.

• Previous library experience.
• Metadata creation and complex digitization project experience highly desired.
• Interest in working with archival materials and making them more accessible.

National:

Museum Specialist at the Pink Palace Museum in Memphis, Tenn.
The Museum Specialist works under the general supervision of the Museum Collections Manager.

Responsibilities:

• Assists with acquisitions
• Maintains cultural and natural history collections through registration, organization, conservation and curation 
• Catalogs, preserves, stores and evaluates museum objects according to professional standards
• Researches database of collection pieces, retrieves and provides relevant information and artifacts for exhibits and education programs
• Assists with exhibit research development and design including installation of exhibits
• Assists with the development of classroom and lab programs
• Visits museum facilities to inspect and evaluate collection items
• Creates and compiles reports utilizing various Microsoft applications

Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in Museum Studies, Art History, Anthropology, History, Geology, Biology or related field and one year professional experience in museum collection management; or any combination of experience and training which enables one to perform the essential job functions. Must have a valid Tennessee driver's license.

The annual salary range is $30,617.60 to $45,614.40.

Applications will be accepted from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through Friday in the Employment Office, Rm 1B-33, City Hall, 125 N. Main St., Memphis, TN 38103.

For a complete job description or to apply online visit http://www.memphistn.gov/.

Cataloguer for Rare Book Collection at Stratford Hall in Stratford, Va.
A cataloger is needed to catalog a rare book collection (approximately 6,000 volumes) housed in the DuPont Library at Stratford Hall in Westmoreland County, Va.  The catalog will include provenance, condition assessment, historical importance and description of binding in addition to basic entries using Microsoft Excel.

Experience with library cataloging procedures, computer data entry and on-line title research, handling rare books, and evaluating conservation needs required. A minimum BA degree in library science or related liberal arts field is preferred. The position requires excellent organizational and written communication skills, accuracy in entering data and ability to work without constant supervision. Applicant must be able to lift heavy books, climb stairs, move and climb rolling platform ladder to reach tall bookshelves and not be allergic to mold, mildew and dust.

This position reports to Stratford Hall's Director of Research and Library Collections.

This contract position offers $13 to $17 per hour based on experience and qualifications.

Please send resume and cover letter to:
Book Cataloging Project
Stratford Hall
483 Great House Rd.
Stratford, VA 22558

For questions about the project, please contact Judy Hynson, director of Research and Library Collections at jshynson@stratfordhall.org.

Collections Assistant at the Rogers Historical Museum in Rogers, Ark.
The Collections Assistant reports to the Curator of Collections, helps with exhibit installation, collections care, registration and the scheduling of education programs, and helps to present programs.

Requirements:

• Knowledge of museums and their importance to the community
• Collections database work
• Oral and verbal skills
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to get along with others
• Ability to lift moderately heavy objects
• Valid driver’s license

Please send cover letter, resume and City application to:
City of Rogers
Attn.: Gina Kincy
301 W. Chestnut
Rogers, AR 72756.

Direct all questions about the job to www.rogersarkansas.com/museum or by phone to (479) 621-1154.

THDI Outreach and Training Coordinator at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission
This will be a 33-month grant-funded temporary position beginning in Dec. 2008.

TSLAC and its partners, the University of North Texas Libraries and Amigos Library Services, have been awarded a $536,000 IMLS grant to develop "Train to Share: Interoperability Training for Cultural Heritage Institutions." This three-year project will address the need, identified nationally but equally evident at the local level, for quality sharable metadata, metadata produced within specific traditions of practice that can nonetheless be shared to create rich experiences for both today's user and the user of tomorrow.

As part of the Train to Share project team, the THDI outreach and training coordinator will participate in planning, designing, organizing, conducting and evaluating educational programs on quality metadata in digital projects for libraries, museums and other cultural heritage institutions throughout the state. Additional work may include providing consultative services and technical assistance to project participants, cultural heritage professionals and the general public.

For a full job description and application instructions visit http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/jobs/thdioutreachcoor.html.

Internship as a Research and Evaluation Assistant with the Institute for Learning Innovation near Annapolis, Md.
The Deborah A. Carey Internship begins in Feb., 2009, ends twelve weeks later (start and end dates are flexible) and has a stipend of $1,600 per month. Internships occur at our offices near Annapolis, Maryland. ILI is a not-for-profit learning research and evaluation organization that works to describe, assess and advance learning in free-choice settings such as museums, libraries, community-based programs and the Internet, as well as in the formal education system.

The Research and Evaluation Assistant will work on a variety of projects, which may include evaluation of museum programs or exhibitions, community-based or technology-based programs, or other programs in non-formal learning environments.

Applicants must be either:

• Working on or have completed their master's degree in museum education or a related field and have had some experience and/or course work in evaluation or research design
• Working on a PhD and have relevant experience and/or course work.

For a full description and application instructions visit http://www.ilinet.org/display/Team/Internships.

For further information contact Cheryl Kessler at (410) 956-5144 or kessler@ilinet.org.