[NHCOLL-L:4261] Pest Management online course starts March 30

[Helen Alten]

MS 210:  Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives
Dates: Mar 30 - May 15, 2009
Price: $425
Instructor: Gretchen Anderson

Description:
EEK! The only thing worse than mice or cockroaches in your kitchen, 
is finding them in your museum collection. Participants in Integrated 
Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives learn 
low-toxicity methods of controlling infestations. IPM is the standard 
method for treating incoming items and monitoring holdings. 
Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives 
discusses how infestations occur, helps identify risks, provides 
feasible mitigation strategies, discusses the different techniques of 
treating infested materials, and helps you complete an IPM plan and 
monitoring schedule for your institution. The course covers pest 
identification, insects, rodent, birds, bats, other mammals and mold 
infestations, as well as other problems raised by participants.

Course Outline:
1. IPM Introduction:
2. Pest Risks / Environmental Causes
3. Monitoring
4. Mitigation Strategies
5. Treatment Strategies
5. Regular review
6. Staff Support
7. Conclusion

Required Text Book
Pinniger, David. Pest Management in Museums, Archives and Historic 
Houses. Archetype Publications, 2004. Available for purchase from 
Northern States Conservation Center at 
<http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html>http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html.

Logistics:
Participants in Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and 
Archives work through eight sections at their own pace. Instructor 
Gretchen Anderson is available for scheduled email support. Materials 
and resources include online literature, slide lectures and dialog 
between students and online chats led by the instructor. The course 
is limited to 20 participants.

Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives runs 
six weeks. To reserve a spot in the course, please pay at 
<http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html>http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html 
If you have trouble please contact Helen Alten at helen at collectioncare.org

Student Comments for MS210 Integrated Pest Management for Museums, 
Libraries and Archives:
I'd give it a 10 out of 10.

I was able to create plans for my institution and actually put them 
into action.

This class was exceptional and overall am generally pleased I took 
this course. The content and material provided were so valuable for 
research tools and training manuals. Thank you!


The Instructor:
Objects conservator Gretchen Anderson learned her craft at the 
American Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian's Conservation 
Analytical Lab, the Canadian Conservation Institute, Getty 
Conservation Lab, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the 
Minnesota Historical Society. She established the conservation 
department at the Science Museum of Minnesota in 1989. She is the 
co-author of A Holistic Approach to Museum Pest Management, a 
technical leaflet for the American Association for State and Local 
History and established a rigorous IPM program for the Science 
Museum. Ms. Anderson is a member of the American Institute for 
Conservation and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History 
Collections. She lectures and presents workshops on preventive 
conservation, IPM, cleaning in museums, and practical methods and 
materials for storage of collections.

Support for the course is provided by Bio-Integral Resource Center 
(BIRC) in Berkeley, California. BIRC is a nonprofit organization 
offering over 25 years of insight, experience and leadership in the 
development and communication of least-toxic, sustainable and 
environmentally sound Integrated Pest Management methods.
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