by Roger Layton | Aug 30, 2017 | collections management, ETHER Base, ETHER Digital, ETHER Education, ETHER Governance, GRAP 103, Museums, workshops
GRAP 103 season has started, and is already in full swing as museums, libraries, archives, and galleries rush to meet the deadlines for financial reporting at the end of this financial year. We are offering a range of support to help your institution prepare and to...
by Sholeen Sanker | Aug 25, 2017 | collections management, ETHER Conferences, ETHER Conservation, Heritage News, Museums, storage management
ETHER will be attending two conferences between September and October and will be displaying many of our products related to ETHER Conservation and ETHER Base. The conferences that we would be attending are the UKZN Preservation Conservation Conference and the...
by Sholeen Sanker | May 18, 2017 | ETHER, ETHER Conservation, Heritage News, Museum Web Sites, Museums, oral history
18 May 2017 marks International Museum Day. It started in 1977 and is lead by International Council of Museums (ICOM). International Museum Day has grown and as many as 35 000 museums took part in 2016. The theme for this year is, “Museums and contested...
by Sholeen Sanker | Mar 2, 2017 | ETHER Conservation, Museums, Tips and Tricks
This page is dedicated to providing simple and easy information that will be beneficial to the storage of artefacts, storage locations, archives, libraries and other heritage institutions. A new tip will be posted at the beginning of each week. You are welcome to...
by Roger Layton | Jun 8, 2016 | ETHER Digital, ETHER Experience, Museum Web Sites, Museums
The first article in this series introduced the issues with museum web sites, including those issues common to all historical sites and memory institutions. In this second article I focus on some of the content required and how this content can be adapted to meet the...
by Roger Layton | May 9, 2016 | ETHER Experience, Museums, user experience
We conducted an analysis of museum web sites almost ten years ago, with the purpose of understanding how good are local museum web sites compared to the best in the world, and we repeated this study four years ago. We have recently commenced a new such survey of South...
