AIM 2010 Annual Conference
August 8-9     Bloomington, Indiana
 

Indiana's 500+ museums care for at least 10.5 million collection items, serve over 9.6 million visitors annually. Indiana's museum professionals use the AIM Conference and Annual Meeting to to connect, recharge, and be inspired by new ideas.

Locations:
Sunday, August 8 -- All over downtown Bloomington!
Monday, August 9 -- Monroe County Convention Center

NEW! Online Registration Available! Click here to register as Attendees, Presenters and Exhibitors.

LOTS OF LINKS and New Features:

Conference Flyer  Four new networking and education offerings!

Registration Form  (Libraries are welcome to include a purchase order number)

Exhibitor Opportunities

NEW!  Networking Lunch Meetings, at area restaurants; see conference flyer for details and locations.

NEW! Topical Tours combine tours of area museums while discovering how museums, libraries and universities successfully collaborate.

NEW! The Emerging Museum Professionals Group, for those with under ten years' experience in museums, will launch at the conference.

NEW! LIBRARIES: 5 General LEUs and 5 Technology LEUs available!  Scroll to bottom of this page for list of approved sessions, with applied credits. Certification will be provided upon completion, day of session.  

Want to check out the local museum scene? Check out the Bloomington Museum Guide and Map

Hotel Accommodations:

Hotel accommodations are now available at the Courtyard by Marriott Bloomington. Conference rate of $129 is available Sunday, August 8. To make reservations, call 888-321-2211 or 812-335-8000 and mention the AIM Conference. Details and map.

AIM expresses its appreciation for program contributions to the

Conference Contact Information: Tiffany Hatfield, AIM Coordinator, Association of Indiana Museums • PO Box 1883 • Indianapolis, IN 46206; P 317-234-5255 • F 317-233-0857 • URL: www.indianamuseums.org • E-Mail: tiffany@indianamuseums.org.

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List of Library Education Units (LEU), approved for the AIM Conference (see conference flyer, above, for location and time):

The following sessions are approved for General LEUs (Monday, August 9):

 - Keynote, Mayor’s Welcome (1 LEU)
 - Raising a Million $ During the Recession of 07-09 (1 LEU)
 - Learning to Share: The ISM, the ACPL, and the Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection (1 LEU)
 - Working with Community Organizations to Provide Better Programming (1 LEU)
 - Museum/Community Collaboration 2.0: Creating Space for Public Voice (1 LEU)
 - I’ll Order the Fun with a Side of Learning, Please: Drawing in the Lifelong Learner (1 LEU)

The following sessionss are approved for Technology LEUs (Monday, August 9):

- Geocaching (1 LEU)
 - Digitizing Your Collections: A Small Museum Perspective (1 LEU)
 - To Facebook & Beyond: How to Incorporate Web 2.0 Technology on a Low to No Budget (1 LEU)
 - Promoting Your Organization Online: How to “Bloom” on a Budget (1 LEU)