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Making Professional Development Work for Small Museums

By Aimee E. Newell

“We had been talking about going to different conferences for years, usually in a joking, musing way, so it is awesome to be able to do it.” When I asked my colleague Mark Riccetti, our organization’s director of operations and programs, …

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