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<p class="MsoNormal">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.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">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
<a href="mailto:jeff.stephenson@dmns.org">jeff.stephenson@dmns.org</a>, and we’ll see that you get in.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt">From Museum Study, LLC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Collections Emergencies: Preparedness to Resilience 4 week online course begins January 4 on MuseumStudy.com Diverse hazards are threatening our cultural institutions and can quickly turn into emergencies or disasters. Do you feel comfortable
using your emergency plan or responding to an emergency? Have you fully prepared for a response and a resilient recovery? Join Rebecca Kennedy of Curae Collections Care, LLC for the 4 week online course Collections<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Emergencies: Preparedness to Resilience. This course will go beyond the basics of emergency planning and teach participants how to turn their plans into living documents that work in all emergency events. We will focus on practical skills
to guide participants from preparedness through response, into recovery and finally to resiliency.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information visit our website: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/collections-emergencies-preparedness-to-resilience/">http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/collections-emergencies-preparedness-to-resilience/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The Interpretive Exhibit Planners Toolbox course begins Jan 4 on MuseumStudy.com Guidelines and tools for planning and managing interpretive exhibit projects.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Join instructor John Veverka for this 4 week course designed for medium to small museums that may be doing most of their interpretive exhibits "in house". It provides a strategy to help them develop cost effective and "successful" interpretive
exhibits (Provoke, Relate, Reveal) based on interpretive objectives and interpretive theme development and illustration.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information visit our website: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/the-interpretive-exhibit-planners-toolbox/">http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/the-interpretive-exhibit-planners-toolbox/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Writing K-12 Lesson Plans for Museums course begins February 1 on MuseumStudy.com This course is designed to teach museum educators how to develop and write formal lesson plans for K-12 programming.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Students will review a wide variety of K-12 lesson plans from different types of museums. Each week’s lecture, chat, and assignment will be iterative, and students will end the course with a finished lesson plan that they can put into
use at their museums.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Join Instructor Tara Young for this 4 week online professional development course.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information visit our website: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/writing-k-12-lesson-plans-for-museums/">http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/writing-k-12-lesson-plans-for-museums/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Creating Exhibitions Through the Collective course begins February 1 on MuseumStudy.com Do you want to create an exhibit that utilizes your community?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">If so, Creating Exhibitions through the Collective is for you. This class will be focused on community co-curation. We will investigate how community involvement during all stages of the exhibit development process can lead to more interpretation
that is credible, community empowerment, and advocacy. Tips and strategies will be provided to build sustainable frameworks for this type of engagement.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Join Instructor Saul Sopoci Drake for this 4 week online professional development course.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information visit our website and view the instructor's video<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">introduction: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/creating-exhibitions-through-the-collective/">http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/creating-exhibitions-through-the-collective/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections online course begins Feb 1 on MuseumStudy.com Join instructor Angela Kipp for the 4 week online course Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections. Working with a previously unmanaged collection
is one of the most challenging and rewarding projects in the career of a museum professional. Challenging because of the variety of issues like leaking roofs, missing documentation and the question as to whether there is actually a floor underneath those piles
of objects. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Rewarding because of the variety of new discoveries and the skills that are learned, along with the satisfying feeling of getting things done.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">The process of securing the collection and making it accessible needs the mindset of a collections manager as well as the one of a project manager. This 4 week course helps you to get a grip on your unmanaged collection by developing
a plan to tackle it, defining achievable goals by creating logical exits and finding ways to keep the project going even if you are limited in time, staff and money.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information visit our website: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/managing-previously-unmanaged-collections/">http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/managing-previously-unmanaged-collections/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">Interpretive Writing online course begins February 1 on MuseumStudy.com Join Professor John Veverka for the course Interpretive Writing. This 4 week online course, part of our series of interpretation courses, is a basic interpretive
writing course designed to be a follow-up course for our Introduction to Heritage Interpretation course, and our other interpretation courses. It will give participants an understanding of and skill in development of actual "interpretive" writing based on
Tilden's Interpretive Principles.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">For more information visit our website: <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><a href="http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/interpretive-writing/">http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/interpretive-writing/</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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