In Montreal...

A workshop on "Building Alliances Between Museums and Communities" will be given at Concordia University's 6th Annual Institute in Management and Community Development. The Institute, which is held on Concordia's Loyola Campus, attracts over 600 people annually from across North America who have an interest in community organizations and development. The full-day workshop on museums and communities is scheduled for Thursday, June 18 and will feature the work of "Reading The Museum."

For more information about the workshop and the complete program (June 15-20), contact the Institute in Management and Community Development, 7141 Sherbrooke Street West, CC 326 Montreal, Quebec H4B 1R6, Tel.: (514) 848-3956
Fax: (514) 848-4598

Maintaining a Human Face

Museum staff interested in the connections between literacy and new technologies should consider attending "Maintaining a Human Face," the 9th Summer Institute of the Centre for Literacy June 25-27). The 1998 edition will accommodate a limited number of participants in a collaborative setting - listening, discussing, exchanging and challenging ideas and practices connected to the uses of technology in adult literacy and basic skills education and their impact on people in schools, community and work place settings. Fee: $300 (includes materials, breakfast and lunch).

For details and registration forms, contact Linda Shohet at The Centre for Literacy, 3040 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3Z 1A4, Tel.: (514) 931-8731, ext. 1415
Fax: (514) 931-5181
E-mail: literacycentr@dawsoncollege.qc.ca

Reading The Museum

The newsletter of Reading The Museum, a program of the Canadian Museums Association to encourage literacy in and through museums, is published two times a year and mailed to all CMA members as a benefit of membership and to various literacy programs and organizations throughout Canada.

Coordinator of Reading The Museum: Lon Dubinsky

Executive Director of the Canadian Museums Association: John G. McAvity

Designer: Alchemy Design

Translation: Bérengère de Guernon, Pamela Ireland

The CMA wishes to thank the National Literacy Secretariat
for support of its program.

Address all enquiries to: Reading The Museum,
Canadian Museums Association,
280 Metcalfe Street, Suite 400,
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1R7.
Tel.: (613) 567-0099; Fax: (613) 233-5438

	©1998 Canadian Museums Association ISSN 1201-9135