[NHCOLL-L:5641] Buy-In: Getting All of the Staff to Support Preservation online short course starts September 19

[Helen Alten]

MS008: Buy-In: Getting All of the Staff to Support Preservation
Instructor: Helen Alten
Price: $95
Dates: Sep 19 to 23, 2011
Location: online at www.museumclasses.org

Description:
To get anything done in your museum, you often need to get other staff 
to support the idea. All too often, preservation is left to one or two 
staff members and others believe it doesn't apply to them. For example, 
it is hard to successfully implement a pest management plan without full 
staff support. Everyone must buy into the notion of preservation. But 
how? Readings will introduce some ideas and participants in this course 
will brainstorm with Helen about what works, what might work - and what 
doesn't.

Logistics:
Participants in Buy-In will read literature and participate in two 
one-hour chats to discuss how to get other staff to support 
preservation. 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. 
This is an opportunity to brain-storm with colleagues about what works 
and what doesn't work.

To reserve a spot in the course, please pay at 
http://www.museumclasses.org and pay at 
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble please 
contact Helen Alten at helen at collectioncare.org

The Instructor:
Helen Alten, is the Director of Northern States Conservation Center and 
its chief Objects Conservator. For nearly 30 years she has been involved 
in objects conservation, starting as a pre-program intern at the 
Oriental Institute in Chicago and the University Museum of the 
University of Pennsylvania. She completed a degree in Archaeological 
Conservation and Materials Science from the Institute of Archaeology at 
the University of London in England. She has built and run conservation 
laboratories in Bulgaria, Montana, Greece, Alaska and Minnesota. She has 
a broad understanding of three-dimensional materials and their 
deterioration, wrote and edited the quarterly Collections Caretaker, 
maintains the popular www.collectioncare.org web site, lectures 
throughout the United States on collection care topics, was instrumental 
in developing a state-wide protocol for disaster response in small 
Minnesota museums, has written, received and reviewed grants for NEH and 
IMLS, worked with local foundations funding one of her pilot programs, 
and is always in search of the perfect museum mannequin. She has 
published chapters on conservation and deterioration of archeological 
glass with the Materials Research Society and the York Archaeological 
Trust, four chapters on different mannequin construction techniques in 
Museum Mannequins: A Guide for Creating the Perfect Fit (2002), 
preservation planning, policies, forms and procedures needed for a small 
museum in The Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums' Collection 
Initiative Manual, and is co-editor of the penultimate book on numbering 
museum collections (still in process) by the Gilcrease Museum in 
Oklahoma. Helen Alten has been a Field Education Director, Conservator, 
and staff trainer. She began working with people from small, rural, and 
tribal museums while as the state conservator for Montana and Alaska. 
Helen currently conducts conservation treatments and operates a 
conservation center in Charleston, WV and St. Paul, MN.

-- 
Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center
www.collectioncare.org
www.museumclasses.org