[NHCOLL-L:3151] announcement

[linda klise]

Announcement for IPM Databases
The Integrated Pest Management Working Group (IPM-WG) is a group of 
collection managers, conservators and other professionals interested 
in issues surrounding the implementation of integrated pest 
management in museum and other collection-holding institutions. The 
group is informally hosted by the American Museum of Natural History 
in New York and meets on an ad-hoc basis. The goal of the group is to 
promote and facilitate good IPM practices and collaboration between 
staff and institutions through the development and on-line 
distribution of training materials and other resources. The group 
also maintains the IPM listserve which provides a forum for 
discussion of IPM-related topics. Gathering and managing pest 
activity data is an essential part of any IPM program. As part of 
IPM-WG's effort to provide museums with on-line IPM resources, the 
Working Group is in the process of developing an on-line tool for 
tracking and managing pest data which will be made accessible over 
the IPM-WG website (www.museumpests.net). The key purpose of this 
on-line resource is to offer museums and other institutions the 
framework needed to develop individualized databases tailored to 
accommodate their collections. To assist in this endeavor, we are 
asking interested museums to provide us with examples of their 
electronic systems (e.g., types of database platforms, types of 
software and report generators) that they are now using to document 
these activities. It is possible that we may request examples of 
individual database programs and copies of generated reports to be 
made accessible over the IPM-WG's website. Any concerns a museum may 
have over such issues as permissions, credit lines or 
confidentiality, will certainly be respected. Attached is a list of 
information the Working Group is interested in compiling. This 
information, along with any IPM database program or report that you 
would be willing to share with us, can be sent electronically to 
<mailto:linda.klise at yale.edu>linda.klise at yale.edu or by mail to Linda 
Klise, Peabody Museum, 170 Whitney Ave., P.O. Box 208118, New Haven, 
CT 06520-8118. While you may submit it at your convenience, we would 
appreciate receiving it as soon as possible to facilitate our ongoing 
analysis. Thank you for taking the time to send us this information.

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