History of African Americans in Television at the Center for History in South Bend
This program is part of Insights in History for Seniors and will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 4, at 1:30 p.m. at the Center for History located at 808 W. Washington St. in South Bend.

Steven Hofer, Ph.D., curator of the Television History Center, will talk about the history of African Americans in television. The program will also include guided tours of Material Matters, an exhibit of the Voyages Gallery of Local History. The display explores history by comparing similar artifacts of different eras. The tour will highlight 1950s and 1960s communication devices, appliances and more.

Admission is $3 per person, and reservations are required by Feb. 2.

For more information, call (574) 235-9664 or visit http://www.centerforhistory.org/.

Book Reviews and Brown Bag Lunch at the Scott County Heritage Center and Museum
This event will be held on Feb. 18 at noon at the Scott County Heritage Center and Museum located at 1050 S. Main St. in Scottsburg.

Bill Fox, Janet Hall, Andrew Rowden and Kathy Napier will share book reviews at the Scott County Heritage Center and Museum’s Brown Bag Lunch program. 

Fox will review Slavery by Another Name by Douglas A. Blackmon, Hall will share her thoughts on The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, Rowden will present Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln by Doris Kearns Goodwin and Napier will review the Jan Brett series of children’s books. 

The program is free and open to the public. Those attending the event supply their own lunch and the museum provides drinks and desserts.

The museum provides the Brown Bag Lunch programs September through May on the third Wednesday of the month at noon. Each month features a different speaker covering a wide variety of topics and typically lasting about an hour.  For the March 18 Brown Bag Lunch, local historian and genealogist Dorothy Rice will share recollections for a program entitled “Down Memory Lane.” The programs are in the museum’s Michael L. Smith Room, which seats approximately fifty people. 

For more information, call (812) 752-1050.

April Award and Student Scholarships from the Visitor Studies Association
The Visitor Studies Association presents two programs that help bring new talent to the field of Visitor Studies and to the Visitor Studies Association.

The application deadline for the April Award and Student Scholarships is March 1 to be a part of the annual conference that will be held in St. Louis July 21 through 25.

• The 13th Annual April Award
  The April Award brings colleagues new to audience research and evaluation to their first Visitor Studies Conference. This award was generously established by Dr. Marilyn Hood to honor the memory of her longtime research assistant, April Lahm.
  
  The 2009 April Award consists of complimentary conference registration and a $500 travel stipend. April Award recipients share VSA's passion for improving the quality of visitor experiences. Help VSA nurture this new talent and grow the association by encouraging eligible candidates to apply for the April Award.
  
  
• Student Scholarship Program
  The VSA Student Scholarship program enables students interested in visitor studies to attend their first Visitor Studies Conference with a waived conference fee. VSA will award a limited number of scholarships for the 2009 Conference.

For more information and application instructions, visit http://www.visitorstudies.org/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=10&cntnt01origid=15&cntnt01detailtemplate=vsa-detail&cntnt01returnid=76.

Local Treasure at the Jasper County Historical Society
The elaborate and colorful murals installed in the post offices of numerous Hoosier communities during the 1930s are highlighted in this traveling exhibit. The exhibition gives a brief history of the federal Section of Painting and Sculpture, which was established in the summer of 1934 "to secure suitable art of the best quality for the embellishment of public buildings," and then focuses on the histories of some of the 36 murals commissioned and executed for Indiana post offices that are still in existence today. The exhibit is based on a 1995 publication A Simple and Vital Design: The Story of the Indiana Post Office Murals, by John C. Carlisle with photographs by Darryl Jones.

The Faces of Lincoln at the Sheridan Public Library
The Faces of Lincoln traveling exhibit is comprised of three independent parts, Developing the Image, Creating the Image and Idealizing the Image, each an exhibit unto itself.

• Developing the Image:
  This section of the exhibit takes a look at the history of photography using some of the best and most well-known images of Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln’s was the first photograph of a president seen by most Americans. Before the mid-19th century, images of our presidents were created in portraits, etchings and political cartoons; these formats continued to be popular in Lincoln’s time. But recent technological breakthroughs in photography also made it possible to create a “real” image on glass or paper and copy it in large numbers. Although other presidents had been photographed, most of those images were made on daguerreotypes that were not reproducible.
  
  
• Creating the Image:
  This section investigates the ways that photographers, printmakers and cartoonists tried to influence public opinion about Lincoln by altering his appearance and by placing him in make-believe situations.
  
  
• Idealizing the Image:
  Lincoln’s assassination instantly elevated him from man to myth. The nation was thrown into mourning and his face became a symbol of sacrifice and saintly public service. African-Americans revered him as the “great emancipator” and voted the party of Lincoln for many decades. Schoolchildren studied him as an example of honesty, service to nation and sacrifice for right. His birthday, along with George Washington’s, became a national holiday, a time to celebrate the virtues associated with his name. Lincoln’s image came to represent American ideals. The federal government used Lincoln’s face on money, and others employed his name to make money for their commercial enterprises by trading on the virtues associated with Lincoln’s name and image. Today, it is difficult to separate the man from the myth.

These traveling exhibits are on loan from the Indiana Historical Society. For more information about the IHS traveling exhibit program, go to www.indianahistory.org/LHS and click on "Traveling Exhibition."

Brandeis University Selling Rose Art Museum Collection
In a move that represents the worst fears of university art museums nationwide, Brandeis University announced Monday that it will shut its art museum and sell its entire 6,000-piece collection.

For the full article, visit http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/01/27/brandeis.

Collections Manager at the University of Alabama
The University of Alabama Department of Art and Art History announces the opening for a Collections Manager.

The Collections Manager is responsible for the preservation, documentation and management of the Paul R. Jones Collection of American Art. Work involves registration, environmental control, storage maintenance, arrangement and description, handling requests for photographic reprints, and retrieving materials in response to research requests. 

For more information or to apply, please visit http://jobs.ua.edu/.


History of Science Educator at the Huntington Library in San Marino, Calif.
The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens is seeking an experienced individual to create and implement programs in the history of science that relate to the Huntington's collections and exhibits, act as science content and pedagogical specialist within the Education Department and as interpretive specialist for science programs and exhibits projects.

The Educator will explore, and promote, collaborative association between the Huntington and other educational organizations and school districts.

This is a grant-funded, two-year position at 80 percent.

For a full job description and job application, please visit http://www.huntington.org/.


Summer Internships at the Anasazi Heritage Center in Dolores, Colo.
The following internships are currently available for Summer 2009.

Each internship will last eight to 12 consecutive weeks. Specific reporting and departure dates are negotiable. There will be a $200 per week stipend paid twice monthly. Housing is available at a communal, three-bedroom house located on 6 acres adjacent to the Anasazi Heritage Center. No travel reimbursement is available. College or university credit may be arranged depending upon policy of university involved. AHC professional staff will supervise credit procedures established by the intern and school.

• Collections Management
  This internship is open to individuals with an interest in museum collections management or curatorial activities. Applicants with prior background in archaeology, anthropology and collections management will be given preference.
  
  This position is that of a general curatorial assistant and will, therefore, involve a variety of curatorial tasks. The intern will be entering a considerable amount of data in the museum's ARGUS cataloging system. In addition, the intern will assist with various repackaging, reorganizing and inventory projects of existing collections at the AHC. This position offers a broad exposure to the curatorial operations of a federal repository.
  
  
• Exhibits and Interpretive Media
  This internship is open to individuals with an interest in design and production of exhibits. Applicants with prior background in exhibit development, interpretive writing, anthropology or archaeology, collections management, art or art history will be given preference. Familiarity with principles of design, graphic and "desktop publishing" software and Ancestral Puebloan culture are all helpful.
  
  
• Visitor Services
  Applicants with a prior background in archaeology, anthropology or museum studies will be given preference. Interest and experience in museum studies and the ability to communicate with a wide audience are helpful.
  
  Job responsibilities include daily operations of the museum. This consists of opening and closing the museum's public areas, working with front desk volunteers, providing visitor information about the area and specifically about Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, re-stocking and keeping interpretive materials and information pamphlets up-to-date, maintaining hands-on exhibits in the Main Gallery, and providing assistance with children's self-guided educational activities (the Junior Explorer Program). Duties include providing 10-15 minute introductory talks to adult tour groups upon their arrival at the Center and other duties as assigned.
  
  This position also requires collecting entrance fees and staffing the front desk when volunteers are absent, and assisting with cash register sales operations in the museum shop.

To apply for these internships submit a vita and letter of interest and goals. Please include the time period within which you would be available.

Interviews for Summer 2009 internships will take place in April 2009, and internships begin late May or early June.

Preliminary inquiries on availability may be made to the Internship Coordinator by phone or by e-mail. There is no specific form to be completed. Send application to:

Tracy Murphy
Assistant Curator, Internship Coordinator
BLM Anasazi Heritage Center
27501 Highway 184
Dolores, CO 81323
(970) 882-5643
Tracy_Murphy@co.blm.gov

Summer Collections Internship at The Hershey Story in Hershey, Pa.
The intern will experience a wide range of collections responsibilities including, object handling and packing, object numbering systems and documentation, preventative conservation techniques, loan policy and procedures, and maintaining collections management software.

A successful candidate will work 20 hours per week during normal operating hours.

The Intern will be responsible for researching and documenting a large collection of chocolate molds. Using a variety of primary source materials, such as sales catalogs and Hershey Company records, the intern will determine what product was produced for each mold, date range and cross reference mold numbers with Hershey Company product numbers.

Please send cover letter, resume and three references to Valerie Seiber, Collections Manager, The Hershey Story, 111 W. Chocolate Ave., Hershey, PA 17033; or e-mail to vseiber@hersheystory.org with “Summer Internship” in the subject line.

Internships are for the summer 2009 semester. Internships are unpaid and may be completed for college credit.

For more information, please visit http://www.hersheystory.org/.