<div dir="ltr"><div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">I have proposed a symposium for the upcoming SPNHC meeting on the training of collection care personnel for natural history, and am looking for contributors who would like to speak about what training they feel is necessary to do the job and/or the means to acquire training. If you are interested, please contact me directly (<a href="mailto:simmons.johne@gmail.com">simmons.johne@gmail.com</a>). Whether the symposium is accepted will depend, in part, on the contributors. <br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">This is the symposium abstract:</div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)" class="gmail_default">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Title:<span> </span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">The Path Forward: Learning Collection Care
for a Sustainable Future</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><span> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Abstract: <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal">Training opportunities for natural history
collection managers and collections specialists include formal graduate programs,
internships, professional development workshops, and self-directed education. Each
of these options has strengths and weaknesses, but what is the best way to
learn to manage natural history collections sustainably? The speakers in this
symposium will address the advantages and disadvantages of formal training
opportunities and self-directed educational endeavors, as well as the major
topics that should be addressed in training programs such as preventive
conservation, museological theory, and specializations for the care of
geoscience collections, dry collections, fluid-preserved collections, and
archives to achieve sustainability in museum collections management and care
for the future.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:12pt;font-family:"Calibri Light",sans-serif;font-weight:bold"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><span> </span></span></p>
</div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">John E. Simmons<br>Writer and Museum Consultant</span></font></div><div dir="ltr"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Museologica<br><i>and</i><br>Investigador Asociado, Departamento de Ornitologia<br>Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima</span></font><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>