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 Ring House 1
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB T6G 2E1
Phone: (780) 492-5834
Fax: (780) 492-6185
Email: museums@ualberta.ca
 

Web Page: http://www.museums.ualberta.ca/

 
Janine Andrews, Executive Director
Mandate:
  • Museums and Collections Services provides professional museum expertise to the faculty and staff who maintain the University’s museums and collections, and to the museum community in general.
  • To provide advisory services and training in exhibitions, public programs, collections management, and conservation issues.
  • To develop policies and procedures to assist the University’s museums and collections, and are a liaison between the collections on campus and the broader community.
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   Museums and Collections
     Digital Collections
     KidZone
     Museum and Artifact Collections on Campus
     Print Study Centre
     Tours
     Virtual Museum
 
 
Unit-specific excerpts from the Learning Services Strategic Plan...

 
1.2 Acquire and provide access to information resource collections (print, manuscript, artifact, fine art, data, electronic mediums, etc.) and create and disseminate knowledge products that are responsive to the needs and aspirations of students and researchers, and available to the broader community.
1.2.5  Develop, maintain and communicate policies and procedures that address both ongoing and new collections issues, concerns and practices and deliver required advisory services ensuring that expressed needs are met, within resources available.
1.2.6  Establish the ‘Art and Artifact Collection’ as a major teaching and research resource nationally and internationally.

1.3 Contribute to the success of students, faculty and staff by providing tools, training, enquiry support, educational opportunities and other services that appropriately contribute to individuals’ acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies within the context of information services.
1.3.4  Manage volunteer programs and deliver support services to collections campus-wide.

2.1 Develop new museum through partnership with Alberta Community Development, Government of Alberta, which will unite the University Museums and the Provincial Museum of Alberta creating means for dynamic program delivery to many audiences in Alberta and beyond.
2.1.1  Lead University processes to ensure needs/requirements of faculty, staff and administration are addressed in new museum planning.

3.1 Increase the alternative financial resources available to achieve LS goals and objectives.
3.1.3  Continue to monitor and take advantage of funding opportunities, and as a result manage a sustainable portfolio of funds from diversified sources that allow a range of based projects to be implemented.

3.6 Develop and coordinate communication strategies, both internally and externally, to ensure uniform communication channels, including development of a visual identity, an informative and dynamic web presence, and a purposeful communication of successes, and timely communication of issues and opportunities.
3.6.1  Develop and implement comprehensive plan to communicate with clients.
3.6.3  Showcase on-campus and off-campus by way of community outreach, through appropriate mechanisms and venues (events, exhibitions, demonstrations, lectures), unique collections, and new services. As appropriate, herald individual and collective achievement.

   
 
1.1 Recruit and satisfy outstanding students and students with outstanding potential.
1.2 Provide the best possible learning experience for our students' lives and careers.
1.3 Create an improved learning environment inside and outside the classroom.
1.4 Provide each student with a significant international experience.
2.1 Achieve national and international leadership in research.
3.2 Attract and allocate the necessary resources to achieve the University's mission.
4.1 Enhance and build connections with our community.

 



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