[NHCOLL-L:5260] Museum Registration online class starts Monday

[Helen Alten]

*MS103: The Basics of Museum Registration* (Only offered once in 2011)
Instructor: Peggy Schaller
Price: $475
Dates: Feb. 22 to Mar. 21, 2011
Location: online at www.museumclasses.org
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Description:*:
Discover why museums use those little bitsy numbers on artifacts. Master 
the ABCs of museum record keeping in the Basics of Museum Registration. 
Participants learn about registration, accession, common numbering 
systems and how to craft a mission statement for their museum. Finally, 
the course reviews the importance of having - and using - a registration 
manual and what it should contain.

Each participant will write a mission statement, as well as collection 
and acquisition policies for a "new" museum. The curriculum also 
requires written commentary on museum missions, an accessioning exercise 
and drafting a sample registration manual.

*Course Outline:*
1. Introduction
2. The Museum Mission Statement
3. Accessioning and Numbering
4. Registration Manual
5. Conclusion

*Logistics:*
Participants in the Basics of Museum Registration work at their own pace 
through five sections and interact through online forums and chats. 
Instructor Peggy Schaller will be available at scheduled times for email 
support. The course covers everything you need to know to process a 
collection. Materials include online readings and lecture notes, slide 
shows, quizzes and links to relevant web sites.

Basics of Museum Registration runs for 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 helen at collectioncare.org

*Student Comments for MS103: The Basics of Museum Registration*
"I have enjoyed many of the classes offered through NSCC and really 
learn a lot. ... The class was taught extremely well and provided 
grateful information. Peggy was an inspiring person!"

" I liked the exercise where we chose the different items we would have 
in the museum. That one was hard because I didn't always know how to 
justify something I wanted or didn't want ... I was even asking my 
family at the dinner table and we were all talking about what we would 
keep and what we wouldn't! I would definitely take another class."

"This course was a great quick course ... I will look forward to taking 
more in the future ... The instructor was very helpful and available."

"The class was set up so that someone with very little time could learn 
a lot in a short period. It provided information that was useful in the 
actual context of work."

"I have enjoyed many of the classes offered through NSCC and really 
learn a lot. ... The class was taught extremely well and provided great 
information. Peggy was an inspiring person with so much to learn from!

*The Instructor:*
*Peggy Schaller*, founded Collections Research for Museums in 1991 to 
provide cataloging, collection-management training and services. She has 
worked with a large variety of museums and collections for more than 18 
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 Manager II. She provides 
workshops and project services to museums and historical societies all 
across the country. The mission of Collections Research for Museums is 
to inspire museums to improve their professional standards, collections 
stewardship and service to their constituency through training in, and 
assistance with, documenting, preserving, protecting and managing their 
collections.
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