This online course may interest some of you..
Iona McCraith
Preservation Consultant
Archives Association of Ontario
Tel: (705) 277-1309     Fax: (705) 277-2091
Email: [log in to unmask]
www..aao-archivists.ca
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From: "Helen Alten" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2011 9:01 PM
Subject: [pestlist] Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and 
Archives online course starts October 3
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| MS210: Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives
| Instructor: Gretchen Anderson
| Dates: Oct 3 through Nov 11, 2011
| Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org
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| Description:
| The only thing worse than mice or cockroaches in your kitchen, is
| finding them in your museum collection. Participants in Integrated Pest
| Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives learn low-toxicity
| methods of controlling infestations. IPM is the standard method for
| treating incoming items and monitoring holdings. Integrated Pest
| Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives discusses how
| infestations occur, helps identify risks, provides feasible mitigation
| strategies, discusses the different techniques of treating infested
| materials, and helps you complete an IPM plan and monitoring schedule
| for your institution. The course covers pest identification, insects,
| rodent, birds, bats, other mammals and mold infestations, as well as
| other problems raised by participants.
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| Logistics:
| Participants in Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and
| Archives work through eight sections at their own pace. Instructor
| Gretchen Anderson is available for scheduled email support. Materials
| and resources include online literature, slide lectures and dialog
| between students and online chats led by the instructor. The course is
| limited to 20 participants.
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| Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives runs six
| weeks. To reserve a spot in the course, please pay at
| http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble please
| contact Helen Alten at [log in to unmask]
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| The Instructor:
| Objects conservator Gretchen Anderson learned her craft at the American
| Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian's Conservation Analytical
| Lab, the Canadian Conservation Institute, Getty Conservation Lab, the
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Minnesota Historical Society.
| She established the conservation department at the Science Museum of
| Minnesota in 1989. She is the co-author of A Holistic Approach to Museum
| Pest Management, a technical leaflet for the American Association for
| State and Local History and established a rigorous IPM program for the
| Science Museum. She was a key member in the planning team that designed
| and built a new facility for the Science Museum of Minnesota. This
| endeavor resulted in not only a state of the art exhibition and storage
| facility, but also a major publication about the experience of building
| a new museum and creating the correct environments: Moving the Mountain.
| In 2009 she accepted the position of conservator and head of the
| conservation section at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in
| Pittsburgh. Ms. Anderson is a member of the American Institute for
| Conservation and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History
| Collections. She lectures and presents workshops on preventive
| conservation, IPM, cleaning in museums, and practical methods and
| materials for storage of collections.
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| Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
| Northern States Conservation Center
| www.collectioncare.org
| www.museumclasses.org
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