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Iona McCraith
Preservation Consultant
Archives Association of Ontario
Tel: (705) 277-1309 Fax: (705) 277-2091
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There is still room in Northern States Conservation Center's unique online
course covering museum, library and archives environments that starts next
Monday:
MS211: Preservation Environments
Instructor: Ernest A. Conrad
Price: $475
Dates: May 2 to May 27, 2011
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org
Description:
The museum's brick exterior wall is crumbling. The powder coated metal
storage shelves have active rust under the foam padding. Objects in fur
storage are covered in mold. It is raining in the exhibit hall. This is the
damage that occurs to museum buildings or collection when staff do not
understand preservation environments. Preservation Environments is essential
knowledge for any collecting institution. Everyone should understand how
humidity and temperature are controlled by a building and its mechanical
system. For museum staff considering a new building - and any institution
planning to expand or rebuild an existing one - Preservation Environments
provide important information for calculating whether the proposed
improvements will actually improve the environmental control of your
protective enclosure. Participants learn the advantages and disadvantages of
numerous methods of temperature and humidity control. Preservation
Environments does not try to turn museum professionals into engineers.
Rather, it arms them with the knowledge they need to work with engineers and
maintenance professionals. And helps explain why damaged occurred and how to
keep it from happening again.
Course Outline:
1 Introduction
2 Climate Control Basics
3 Monitoring and Psychrometrics
4 Water - The Enemy
5 Preservation Today and Tomorrow
6 Conclusion
Logistics: Participants in Preservation Environments work at their own pace
through six sections and interact through online chats. Instructor Ernest
Conrad is available at scheduled times for email support. Preservation
Environments includes online literature, slide lectures and
student-teacher/group-teacher dialog. The course is limited to 20
participants.
Preservation Environments runs four 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]
Student Comments for MS211: Preservation Environments:
Mr. Conrad did a superb job…the information from the course has helped me
professionally, especially in describing the impact of relative humidity on
objects and artifacts and paper.
I thought the lectures along with the powerpoint slides were great.
This course helped me to understand quite a bit more as far as the
psychometric and maximum room RH without condensation charts. I already had
a psychometric chart but made little use of it, since no one had explained
how to use it. I also was very interested to hear of digital monitoring
systems. This course exceeded my expectations.
The instructor was very knowledgeable, approachable (with probably rather
silly questions) and gave straight forward answers to inquiries.
The Instructor:
Ernest A. Conrad's greatest contribution to the preservation field was the
development of new environmental guidelines for engineers who work on
museums, libraries and archives. For over 20 years, Mr. Conrad has focused
on environmental issues. He is president of Landmark Facilities Group, Inc.,
an engineering firm specializing in environmental systems for museums,
libraries, archives and historic facilities. A licensed mechanical engineer
in several states, Mr. Conrad holds a bachelor's degree in civil engineering
and a master's in environmental engineering from Drexel University,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For more information visit his web site Landmark
Facilities Group, Inc.
The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning
Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) publishes standards in the areas of HVAC and
refrigeration. Mr. Conrad recently co-authored the ASHRAE Applications
Handbook "Chapter 20: Museums, Libraries and Archives." For the first time,
there are guidelines specific to our needs in the engineering literature.
Mr. Conrad has studied environments and designed special climate control
systems throughout the United States for clients as well-known as the
National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress, The Frick Collection, Getty
Conservation Institute, The Pierpont Morgan Library, National Trust for
Historic Preservation, and National Park Service. He has a special interest
in house museums and how climate affects structures and collections housed
within those structures.
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