[Nhcoll-l] Collection Management Policies online course begins September 30

[Helen Alten]

MS 209: Collection Management Policies
Instructor: John Simmons
Dates: Sept 30 - Nov 8, 2013
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Acquiring and holding collections impose specific legal, ethical and 
professional obligations. Museums must ensure proper management, 
preservation and use of their collections. A well-crafted collections 
management policy is key to collections stewardship. Collections 
Management Policies for Museums and Related Institutions helps 
participants develop policies that meet professional and legal standards 
for collections management.

Collections Management Policies for Museums and Related Institutions 
teaches the practical skills and knowledge needed to write and implement 
such a policy. The course covers the essential components and issues a 
policy should address. It also highlights the role of the policy in 
carrying out a museum's mission and guiding stewardship decisions. 
Participants are expected to draft collections management policies.

Logistics:
Participants in Collections Management Policies work through sections at 
their own pace. Instructor John Simmons is available for scheduled email 
support. Materials and resources include online literature, textbook 
readings, slide lectures and dialog between students and online chats 
led by the instructor. The course is limited to 20 participants.

Collections Policies runs for six weeks. To learn more about the course 
go to http://www.collectioncare.org/training/trol_classes_ms209.html If 
you have trouble please contact Helen Alten at helen at collectioncare.org

The Instructor:
John E. Simmons runs Museologica, an independent consulting company, and 
serves as Adjunct Curator of Collections at the Earth and Mineral 
Sciences Museum and Art Gallery at Pennsylvania State University. He has 
a B.S. in Systematics and Ecology and a Master's degree in Historical 
Administration and Museum Studies. Simmons began his professional career 
as a zoo keeper, then worked as collections manager at the California 
Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of the University of 
Kansas, where he also served as Director of the Museum Studies Program 
until 2007. He received 2011 Carolyn L. Rose Award for outstanding 
commitment to Natural History Collections Care and Management from the 
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, the 
Superior Voluntary Service Award from the American Association of 
Museums and the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Mentoring of Graduate 
Students from the University of Kansas. Simmons' publications include 
three books, Herpetological Collecting and Collections Management 
(2002), Cuidado, Manejo y Conservación de las Colecciones Biológicas 
(2005, with Yaneth Muñoz-Saba), and Things Great and Small: Collections 
Management Policies (2006). He consults, teaches, and does field work in 
the US, Latin America and Asia. For more information visit his web site 
MUSEOLOGICA

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