[NHCOLL-L:3677] IPM Working Group 2008 Meeting

[Neil Duncan]

We are currently accepting requests for a spot at 
the 2008 IPM Working Group Meeting to be hosted 
by the American Museum of Natural History in New 
York City, February 25-26, 2008.

The IPM Working Group is a group of museum 
professionals from various disciplines dedicated 
to the development of pest management resources 
for the general museum community.  The goal of 
the working group meeting is not to teach IPM, 
but rather to focus on deliverables to make IPM 
easier for museum staff. We recognize that every 
museum has similar challenges with regards to 
pest management. We hope that the working group 
can help solve problems while alleviating the 
need for every museum to come up with their own solutions.

Some of the practical deliverables from the 
previous four meetings include the 
museumpests.net website; the museum pest mailing 
list; IPM related bibliographies and 
presentations all accessible from the website at 
<http://www.museumpests.net>www.museumpests.net.

This year’s meeting will include a continued work on the areas of:
    * Pest Imaging/Identification Aids
    * Software for Mapping and Monitoring
    * Policy and Procedures for IPM
    * Best Practices for pest treatments
    * Making IPM information accessible on the web

As with the previous meetings, we want to stress 
that this is not a review of IPM and the purpose 
of the group is not to teach IPM, but to develop 
resources for the museum community. You should 
expect to take an active role in discussing and 
setting goals, and to leave with an assignment.

For more information on the working group please 
see 
<http://www.museumpests.net/>www.museumpests.net 
or contact the IPM-WG Chair Neil Duncan at 
<mailto:duncan at amnh.org>duncan at amnh.org.  If you 
would like to attend the meeting, please contact 
Rachael Perkins Arenstein 
(<mailto:rachaelarenstein at hotmail.com>rachaelarenstein at hotmail.com 
– please put “IPM Working Group RSVP” in the 
subject line of the email). E-mails without this 
subject line will not be opened.  In addition, we 
have space during the session breaks for a small 
number of short presentations on pest management 
issues; if you are interested in giving a 
presentation, let us know when you respond to the invitation.