[Nhcoll-l] September - December On-Line Courses -- Museum Study LLC; iDigBio; Arctos

[Jeff Stephenson]

Hello,
Please see below for a compendium of on-line courses in Museum Studies and Collections Management.  This list is provided by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Professional Development Committee as a monthly service for nhcoll subscribers.  Please contact the course providers or instructors for more information or questions.
As a reminder, nhcoll is not open for advertising by individuals; however, if you would like to have your courses appear in this compendium, please feel free to submit your offerings to jeff.stephenson at dmns.org<mailto:jeff.stephenson at dmns.org>, and we’ll see that you get in.
Thank you

From Museum Study, LLC



There are only 5 online professional development courses left in 2021 on Museum Study, 3 in October and 2 in November.



Leading Together: Working for and With Your Board of Trustees course begins October 4 on MuseumStudy.com Is your relationship with your board collaborative, contentious, or non-existent? Does your board drift between non-management and micromanagement? Do you mentally or emotionally check out of the relationship due to lack of time or commitment?

Anne W. Ackerson will be leading a class on Leading Together: Working for and With Your Board of Trustees. This four-week course is geared for executive directors and will cover roles and responsibilities, assessing the board-staff relationship, and putting strategic and integrative thinking to work at board and committee meetings, among other topics.

Each week will include readings and assignments. We'll also gather in Zoom chats to explore topics in more depth and problem-solve your CEO-board challenges!

For more information visit our website:

https://www.museumstudy.com/leading-together-working-for-and-with-your-board-of-trustees



Climate Change Interpretation course begins October 4 on MuseumStudy.com Join Professor John Veverka for the 4 week online course Climate Change Interpretation. Climate change and global warming issues are quickly reaching a critical level affecting each of us as well as the world every day. From enabling extreme weather, sea level increases from glacial melting and flooding, affecting farming and food production, and the increasing health risks such as asthma in children, we, as interpreters, interpretive organizations and agencies, museums and zoo educators have to do a better job in interpreting climate issues to our visitors. We need to do this particularly at the grass root level, for our own visitors raising awareness of problems and de-bunking myths.

For more information visit our website:

https://www.museumstudy.com/climate-change-interpretation



How to Tell Stories and Construct Effective Exhibition Labels course begins October 4 on MuseumStudy.com Ever wanted to know how to tell stories and construct effective exhibition labels? If so, this course is for you. We will focus on providing you with tips on how to research, develop, and structure content. Plus, how to transform your story into effective exhibition panels and labels. As we delve into all stages of the process, strategies will be provided to build sustainable frameworks for this type of content development. Participants will be encouraged to generate and refine their own ideas for content and exhibition label development that fits their respective institutions. Join Saul Sopoci Drake for the

4 week online course How to Tell Stories and Construct Effective Exhibition Panels.

For more information visit our website:

https://www.museumstudy.com/how-to-tell-stories-and-create-effective-exhibition-panels



Integrated Pest Management: The Plan and Implementation online course begins November 1 on MuseumStudy.com So you are familiar with Integrated Pest Management, but you never got around to writing a plan to carry it out. Here is the course for you!

A written plan formalizes the IPM strategy and keeps management abreast of your status. It organizes your ideas and lays the groundwork for the needs of the collection and the building(s). It provides the direction in which you want to take the program, including grant funding and accreditation.

Join Carnegie Museum of Natural History Conservator Gretchen Anderson for this four week online course in which participants will learn how to apply IPM principles to their specific situation and institution. A draft plan and specific implementation strategies will be developed and discussed. Even though our institutions have different challenges the exchange of ideas presents the opportunity for us to help each other brainstorm solutions that will work for our situation.

For more information visit our website:

https://www.museumstudy.com/integrated-pest-management-plan



Advanced Interpretive Techniques course begins November 1 on MuseumStudy.com Join Professor John Veverka for the 4 week online course Advanced Interpretive Techniques - Interpreting the "rest of the story".

Interpreting “the rest of the story”, a powerful Interpretive communications technique for revealing and releasing the “rest of the stories” hidden in artifacts, objects, historical figures/events, landscapes, or sites through both live presentations and interpretive media text and label copy. This course will help you utilize and blend the Paul Harvey Rest of the Story format with Tilden’s Interpretive Principles.  An interpretive technique marriage you can embrace and use throughout your interpretive career.

For more information visit our website:

https://www.museumstudy.com/advanced-interpretive-techniques-interpreting-the-rest-of-the-story



--

Brad Bredehoft

CEO

Museum Study, LLC

www.MuseumStudy.com<http://www.MuseumStudy.com>


From iDigBio

Dear Colleagues,

iDigBio is pleased to announce an 8-week "Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections” online course.

Take this opportunity to introduce new purpose and excitement into your organization. Prepare to relate your collection’s compelling vision to stakeholders and discuss long-term goals and strategies with administrators.

The “Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections” course will meet 8 times on Fridays at 3:00–4:00 PM Eastern Time during the period October 8–December 10, 2021 (see syllabus link below for details, including exact dates). We anticipate that the course will require approximately 5 hours of work per week, including the 1 hour in-class. The goal is to produce a short (5–10 pages) strategic plan for each represented collection. Each plan will address vision, mission, values, stakeholders, strategies, goals, objectives, evaluation, and sustainability, among other things. The process is at least as valuable as the product, and you might find that the exercises benefit your collection in unexpected ways.

The course will be capped at 30 participants to ensure adequate opportunities to participate in discussions. We are looking for creative, committed participants who can help us to continue building momentum for this as an annual event. If multiple individuals from a collection are interested in participating in the course, we ask that one formally apply and the others participate in the out-of-class exercises and brainstorming sessions.

There is no charge for participation in the course. We invite anyone affiliated with a collection from anywhere in the world to apply to participate, but we do note that the course is taught in English. Please note that the course is focused on strategic planning, rather than teaching collecting, curation, or data mobilization skills. Meetings are recorded to benefit class participants who wish to review content asynchronously.

The syllabus for the course is available here<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_document_d_1HYOOF-2DfS-5FAJUjU9WoUlNBCDUp925noW3hbtWhe2OZEI_&d=DwMGaQ&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=649moWzI9k3As6cIGC0ehH4Hxrhlht7FIPkEhnZYvTw&m=mr1nO6_slWpwHdkLS8Yx6sjTL7hYPUzdulCJ8cN6WPc&s=FaVCMH8wWgkEwVyToS9gZ59-6GocSHq8sXXmYVX2LaA&e=>.

To apply, please fill out this short Google Form<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__forms.gle_SvW4mmSBgreLgbzk6&d=DwMGaQ&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=649moWzI9k3As6cIGC0ehH4Hxrhlht7FIPkEhnZYvTw&m=mr1nO6_slWpwHdkLS8Yx6sjTL7hYPUzdulCJ8cN6WPc&s=8wMAMxm2jjI0pd4JevRxsDZf8dS1J48yQQbbJDgVuME&e=> by September 10. Admission decisions will be made shortly thereafter. Admissions are based on a mix of considerations, including diversity of career stages and collections, urgency for the collection, the collection’s concrete plans to leverage the strategic planning in the near future (e.g., for funding), and sustained interest in the class as evidenced by application again this year after an unsuccessful application in the previous year.

With best regards,

Austin Mast (Director of iDigBio’s Digitization, Workforce Development, and Citizen Science Domain) and David Jennings (iDigBio’s Project Manager)

Austin Mast — Professor · Department of Biological Science · 319 Stadium Drive · Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 · U.S.A. · (850) 645-1500 — Director · Institute for Digital Information & Scientific Communication · College of Communication and Information · Florida State University — amast at fsu.edu<mailto:amast at fsu.edu> — he/him


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From Arctos

Please join us Tuesday, September 14th for a webinar on using Arctos to manage fish collections.
Abstract: This webinar will provide an overview of Arctos and highlight the management features used by the University of Alaska Museum (UAM) Fish collection. The UAM Fish collection is a lot- and fluid-based collection with associated tissues. I will demonstrate various ways to work with specimen data in bulk and at the individual specimen level, including GeoLocate, the georeferencing feature in Arctos for specimens without provided coordinates, and how we accommodate associated tissues and voucher specimens in a lot format. Other features I will highlight include observational records, accessibility, media and publications, and linkouts to GenBank and other external databases.

Presenter: Kyndall Hildebrandt, Genomic Resources Collection Manager, University of Alaska Museum of the North
When: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 at 3:00pm ET/1:00pm MT (19:00 UTC)

Where: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/93991715168 (passcode: arctos)

Can’t Make It?: This webinar will be recorded and made available along with other archived webinars at https://arctosdb.org/learn/webinars/<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__secure-2Dweb.cisco.com_1uQiH59boCAICH7bYditYArQ7fftxegaeEsgJDD0lqlu-5FTAZYM9aNu4NAstdhE6JTxX9tAgAOnPttFYQleGT3g8HU7OCYTt7YEal59EZDPH7xY6B-2DXgKUAqq1XX8tzNc7ajryJ5T-5FMZT6Fid4hzAaHreIpe6iO-5F1SVwTivraL61PwCRiNV-5Ft23LxxRgTnzZWrP8wc2o9hvKEty-5F2U20CaEnliceylR9-2DgoVopZSERd8-5FurMPXEEnnk6pWxCf26jE-2DLrx9OHdSKb2KsIxewqmNVtlVS-5FyFuR3Vjrc984TxA5jrzMdn7i-2Dg-5FtzkaMaWCt21jHv5qB8-2DZx5xdYvO4OQlpK7WgV3QfrYAdBfpaNm34Pz2Ot-5Fp0ialCnSf8MfMi3HBJ84Rer6kEjQCUxF4hnQusxDHxKp6hidjdId-5FHvHeUDBywIcfez42JzW-2D2GSV220UCME-2DqeNnAgTX0De39qfWEA_https-253A-252F-252Farctosdb.org-252Flearn-252Fwebinars-252F&d=DwMFAg&c=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg&r=649moWzI9k3As6cIGC0ehH4Hxrhlht7FIPkEhnZYvTw&m=zvvumM-JeIU0y767yczZ_RY1IZfK7rvCGo9Zlk9m8pM&s=NZFsoUX5u49l3x7H5h8_PpiCBnWbA8lmQYIu7QfwdTM&e=>


Emily Braker
Vertebrate Collections Manager, Zoology Section
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
265 UCB, Bruce Curtis Building
Boulder, CO 80309-0218
Phone: 303-492-8466
http://www.colorado.edu/cumuseum/research-collections/vertebrates


JEFF STEPHENSON
COLLECTIONS MANAGER, ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT



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