This is the first post in what will be a regular series from the MCG highlighting a few (read: totally non-exhaustive) interesting links, conversations and highlights from the web from the week just gone. Over the coming weeks we’ll be inviting guest authors to curate this post, writing about the things they’ve read which they think are interesting, important, funny or just plain silly.... 

Dec ’0929:30 am Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre, V&A, London Fully booked! For over five years the annual UKMW conferences have been the place for high quality presentations and discussions on the matters that are shaping museums online today. The Sackler Centre By remaining in touch with the leading edge of research, the politics of policy, as well as the day-to-day realities... 

The new MCG logo Over the past few months, we’ve been working away behind the scenes on a new Museums Computer Group website. Probably the first thing you’ll notice is that we’ve re-designed – new colours, new logo and a new look and feel. The old site (as many of you probably noticed) was pretty badly out of date both visually and structurally, and although we did some work... 

Nov ’0819 London Transport Museum Time Topic Speaker 9.45 Registration and coffee - 10.30Welcome by Chair of MCGRoss Parry, Acting Chair - MCG 10.35Welcome by London Transport... 

Jun ’0819 David Wilson Library, University of Leicester [campus map] organised by the Museums Computer Group sponsored by Culture 24 How (and why) should museums connect their online collections? Should museums pursue a policy of standardised and heavyweight national integration, or a mixed portfolio of more localised lightweight solutions? Should the sector continue to plan for users... 

museumscomputergroup Museums Computer Group AGM – 3rd November 2005 World Museum Liverpool Rex Makin Theatre, County Sessions House – 2.25pm Agenda 1. Minutes of the last AGM 2. Apologies for absence 3. Report from the Chair 4. Finance/Membership Report 5. Newsletter Update 6. Report from Mike Lowndes / Ross Parry, UK Museums and the Web 7. Questions from the floor 8. Elections to the Committee 9.... 

The Fiona Marshall Special Edition LASSI After years of effort (or does it just feel that way?), LASSI (the Larger Scale System Initiative) has completed its task of specifying and selecting a collections management package on behalf of eight museums. And the winner is . . . MultiMIMSY. The LASSI consortium consists of the following museums and museum services: Horniman, Hull, Imperial War, Leicestershire,... 

From ‘Archive 1996 – what were we up to 20 years ago?’, the Spring 1986 meeting item ‘introduction to Kew and overview of computing facilities’. THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS OVERVIEW OF COMPUTING FACILITIES The Royal Botanic gardens (RBG) installed the Prime minicomputer during December 1983. The choice of equipment was made while RBG were still part of the ministry of agriculture... 

From ‘Archive 1996 – what were we up to 20 years ago?’, the Spring 1986 meeting item ‘Genus Index’. GENUS INDEX The RBG Genus Index is a database of genus names showing their validity and relation to other genus names, and the family they are in, all as perceived by RBG. It is written in COBOL end uses two Indexed files, one for the Families and one for the Genera. It is called by typing... 

From ‘Archive 1996 – what were we up to 20 years ago?’, the Spring 1986 meeting item ‘Visit to Computer Section and demonstration of database systems (Sepasal)’. ASK SEPASAL! For the past three years the SEPASAL unit has been collating information about plants from the dry tropics that have been reported to be useful (in any way) but that have not been commercially exploited...