{"id":4442,"date":"2011-07-07T10:37:09","date_gmt":"2011-07-07T14:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=4442"},"modified":"2011-07-07T10:37:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-07T14:37:09","slug":"morning-read-state-museum-gets-no-respect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2011\/07\/07\/morning-read-state-museum-gets-no-respect\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning read: state museum gets no respect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry this is a little late, but it&#8217;s still morning, right?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/Supporters-Museum-cuts-would-hurt-1455555.php\">This piece<\/a> in the Times Union of Albany caught my eye&#8230;I have a couple museum people in the family, and I LIKE museums in general. And they&#8217;re important, like libraries and public parks, as part of our cultural and intellectual commons.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the scoop:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>First there was the state&#8217;s budget-driven decision to close the  facility on Sundays, despite concerns that it was the museum&#8217;s  second-busiest day of the week, behind\u00a0Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Now the museum stands to lose five curators who supporters say make  up the heart of the operation. They argue that without experts in fields  like mineralogy, paleontology or archaeology, any museum would likely  have a hard time updating or creating new exhibits, or keeping track of  the millions of specimens in its\u00a0possession.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div>The Times Union goes on to report the layoffs were decided by the Office of management and Budget, without input from the museum&#8217;s senior staff. Apparently, lots of the museum staff belongs to PEF, the state workers union that hasn&#8217;t yet settled on a new contract deal with Gov. Cuomo. Talks are continuing.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The State Museum in Albany is a huge repository of New York&#8217;s of artifacts,\u00a0 specimens, documents, and information about New York.\u00a0 Hard to keep track of all that, not to mention future gifts, without experts in the fields.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesunion.com\/news\/article\/Supporters-Museum-cuts-would-hurt-1455555.php#ixzz1RQiuX1tv\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry this is a little late, but it&#8217;s still morning, right? This piece in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4442"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4443,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4442\/revisions\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}