Professor Bren Martin

cbmartin@mtsu.edu

Professor Amy Sayward

History

Discipline specific equipment

Peck Hall 221

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The Public History Technology Training Lab provides undergraduate and graduate (MA and PhD)Public History students (studying museums, archives, historic preservation, and cultural resource management) and professionals (faculty and public practitioners participating in outreach workshops) access to state-of-the-art, discipline-specific technologies. We are pursuing purchase of the hardware necessary for this lab through other sources and are only seeking software for the lab in this application: PastPerfect is the premier collections management software for U.S. museums; XMetal (Extensible Markup Language) for Encoded Archival Description (EAD) is the international standard for archives, repositories, and special collection libraries who post their finding aids on the web; Adobe Illustrator is the preferred graphic design software for public historians who design exhibits, displays, brochures, and other professional work prodducts; Adobe Photoshop, which allows public historians to process photographs, maps, and images, is a standard minimal skill in job advertisements for professionals in public history; and Dreamweaver CS3 is the standard software that allows public historians (especially archivists using EAD) to reach broad public audiences on the internet and is therefore a requirement in most job announcements for public history professionals. We need these softwares to adequately train our students to be competitive in the public history professional arena.