Comments on: Church Art is History http://www.millennialstar.org/church-art-is-history/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:48:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Marjorie Conder http://www.millennialstar.org/church-art-is-history/comment-page-1/#comment-34613 Marjorie Conder Tue, 06 Jan 2009 21:59:40 +0000 http://www.millennialstar.org/?p=1504#comment-34613 Although my understanding is that the next art competition (opening the end of Marach?) will be displayed in the Conference Center. It will still be managed by the musuem however. Although my understanding is that the next art competition (opening the end of Marach?) will be displayed in the Conference Center. It will still be managed by the musuem however.

]]> By: Ardis Parshall http://www.millennialstar.org/church-art-is-history/comment-page-1/#comment-34612 Ardis Parshall Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:38:40 +0000 http://www.millennialstar.org/?p=1504#comment-34612 If that wasn't clear, and I don't think it was, the stuff that matters (the actual activities of both the museum and the archives) hasn't changed, only the names. Nobody visiting the museum is going to notice any change in the displays or function of the museum, just a change in the name over the door. If that wasn’t clear, and I don’t think it was, the stuff that matters (the actual activities of both the museum and the archives) hasn’t changed, only the names. Nobody visiting the museum is going to notice any change in the displays or function of the museum, just a change in the name over the door.

]]> By: Ardis Parshall http://www.millennialstar.org/church-art-is-history/comment-page-1/#comment-34611 Ardis Parshall Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:36:20 +0000 http://www.millennialstar.org/?p=1504#comment-34611 All they're doing is "aligning" the nomenclature. They've done away with the Church Archives, mashing it together with the library and calling it the "Church History Library." Since archives and libraries are very different things, demanding different skills from the professionals and different cataloging, it's a dumb, stupid, dorky, demeaning thing to do, if you ask me. (Nobody did.) The Museum is lucky to still be a museum and not some adjunct gallery of the Church History Library. I haven't heard any explanation for either change, leaving me to speculate that its sole dumbing down purpose is to make all the phone numbers for that department fall in the same alphabetical space of the church directory. Understand, please, that I don't work for the Church; I just spend my working hours using their wonderful -- if grossly misnamed -- facilities. All they’re doing is “aligning” the nomenclature.

They’ve done away with the Church Archives, mashing it together with the library and calling it the “Church History Library.” Since archives and libraries are very different things, demanding different skills from the professionals and different cataloging, it’s a dumb, stupid, dorky, demeaning thing to do, if you ask me. (Nobody did.) The Museum is lucky to still be a museum and not some adjunct gallery of the Church History Library.

I haven’t heard any explanation for either change, leaving me to speculate that its sole dumbing down purpose is to make all the phone numbers for that department fall in the same alphabetical space of the church directory.

Understand, please, that I don’t work for the Church; I just spend my working hours using their wonderful — if grossly misnamed — facilities.

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