[NHCOLL-L:4038] Mission statement and five online classes in November

[Helen Alten]

Northern States Conservation Center offers a short, one week, course 
on Mission Statements in November.  This course meets the 
requirements of the Virginia Association of Museum's new museum 
management certificate.  A description follows at the end of this e-mail.

Northern States Conservation Center also has five longer courses that 
start next week, November 3:
MS 101: Introduction to Museums (4 weeks)
MS 212: Care of Textiles (4 weeks)
MS 204: Materials for Storage and Display (4 weeks)
MS 211: Preservation Environments (4 weeks)
MS 106:  Exhibit Fundamentals: Ideas to Installation (6 weeks)

There is still room in all of them.  If you are interested in 
learning more about them, go to www.museumclasses.org  Please note 
that there are no shipping charges for any of the online classes.
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MS 007: The Mission Statement: Is it really that important?
Instructor: Peggy Schaller
Dates: November 10 through 15, 2008
Price: $75
Location: www.museumclasses.org

The heart of every museum is its collection and a mission statement 
is critical to preserving that collection.  Participants in The 
Mission Statement will discuss their mission statements and whether 
they really make a difference. Peggy has seen and heard it all as a 
consultant to small and large museums.  She will help you figure out 
ways to make your mission statement work for you.

Logistics:
Participants in The Mission Statement will read literature and 
participate in two one-hour chats to discuss how a museum's mission 
statement may or may not impact the daily operations. Each student 
should read course materials and prepare questions or comments to 
share with the other students in the chat. This is a mini-course and 
takes no more than 10 hours of a student's time.

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 helen at collectioncare.org.

The Instructor:
Peggy Schaller, founded Collections Research for Museums in 1991 to 
provide consulting on cataloging, collection-management training and 
services. She has worked with a large variety of museums and 
collections for more than 13 years. Peggy, who lives in Denver, 
Colorado, has a bachelor's degree in anthropology with minors in art 
history and geology from the University of Arizona in Tucson. She has 
a master's degree in anthropology with a minor in museum studies from 
the University of Colorado in Boulder and is a certified 
institutional protection specialist.
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