[NHCOLL-L:4087] Professional Specialization Certificate in Collections Management offered at the University of Victoria

[Cultural Resource Management]

The Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada is accepting applications for their Professional Specialization Certificate in Collections Management.  This four-course professional specialization certificate program is designed to enhance your capacity to effectively build and manage collections.

Begin with Caring for Collections (a course offered via distance January - April, 2009 - see below for more information), then take Curatorship (offered via distance next academic year) and Caring for Collections (also offered next academic year), plus one more elective in the HA 488 series, and complete your certificate by the end of April 2009!

To apply to this certificate program, please visit our website at:  http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/collections.aspx


Please see below for a complete description of the first core course offered in this certificate program (you do not have to be a certificate student to register for this course):
CARING FOR COLLECTIONS
HA 488D (1.5 units); distance offering

An examination of the physical characteristics of various types of museum collections, the ways they are affected by a range of environmental factors, and the preventive conservation and treatment policies and procedures that are utilized to ensure the safe-keeping of artifacts and specimens in storage, on exhibit, in transit, and when in use for research and programming purposes. Explore the principles and techniques of preventive care and strengthen your understanding of:

 *   the ethics of conservation and the basic tenets that govern the conservation profession
 *   the cultural sensitivities that is integral in providing collections with proper and respectful care
 *   what conservation is and of a conservator's role within an institution or with collections
 *   collections care and the need for partnership
 *   the history of conservation and the evolution of taking a preventive rather than an interventive approach to collections care
 *   the need to become familiar with the various conservation resources and resource institutions available
 *   the terminology used by conservators and conservation scientists
 *   the agents of deterioration that can affect museum collections
 *   the techniques used to measure and quantify the agents of deterioration
 *   the risks affecting the collections in your care and to develop mitigative strategies for dealing with these risks
 *   active and passive approaches to controlling the museum environment
 *   risk management as an approach to collections care
 *   safe handling of collections
 *   the condition of a museum object (e.g., condition report)
 *   the physical and chemical nature of the materials that make up museum collections
 *   materials degradation
 *   museum pollutants and how to create a pollutant-free environment for storage, exhibition and transportation of museum collections
 *   the basic requirements for the safe exhibition, storage and transportation of museum collections
 *   museum security as it relates to collections care
 *   integrated pest management

To see the complete course outline visit:

http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp/courses/ha488d-D.aspx

Dates: January 12 to April 19, 2009

Please register by: December 10 (late registrations accepted if space permits) - please be aware that you may register in this course as a noncredit student while you are waiting for your application to be approved by the PSC program.  Upon acceptance into the program, your status will be changed to a credit student and this course will be applied to the certificate requirements.

To register in this course please visit https://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/forms/crm/online_reg.aspx.

Flexible enrollment options allow you to take this course on either a credit or non-credit basis to meet specific needs or interests.
Fee: CDN$641, including a CDN$70 materials fee (Canadian funds, credit and non-credit participation options) A CDN$170 registration deposit is required with each registration form.

Instructor: Susan Maltby

Susan L Maltby is a conservation consultant specializing in artifact treatment, training seminars, collection surveys, advice on collections care and management, and conservation guidelines for exhibits, museums and heritage structures. She earned a Master of Art Conservation specializing in artifact conservation from Queens University in 1984, has extensive field experience in Cyprus and Jordan as an archaeological conservator, and has written numerous articles and papers, and contributed to the academic literature on conservation technique. Previously, Susan worked as a Conservator with the Canadian Conservation Institute, a Fellow at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, and as an intern at the Klondike National Historic Site.

Here's what past participants have had to say about this course and the instructor:
"The strengths of the course were definitely Susan's wealth of knowledge & expertise & experience she bought to the table!"
"[This course was a] perfect 'marriage' of technical knowledge & real-life experience. Everyone involved (from board members to janitor) should take a course like this!!!"


Visit our website for other required courses and electives for completing the PSC in Collections Management:

http://www.continuingstudies.uvic.ca/crmp


For more information, please contact:

Anissa Paulsen, Program Coordinator
Cultural Resource Management Program
Continuing Studies, University of Victoria
PO Box 3030 STN CSC Victoria BC Canada V8W 3N6
Tel: 250 721-6119 Fax: 250 721-8774
Email: apaulsen at uvcs.uvic.ca

To receive monthly email updates, contact crmp at uvcs.uvic.ca






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