[NHCOLL-L:5017] Preservation Environments online class starts Nov 1

[Helen Alten]

*MS211: Preservation Environments*
*Instructor: *Ernest A. Conrad*
Price: *$475*
Dates: *November 1 through 30, 2010*
Location: *online at www.museumclasses.org
*For more information and to sign up:* 
http://www.collectioncare.org/training/trol_classes_ms211.html
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Description:*
The museum's brick exterior wall is crumbling. The powder coated metal 
storage shelves have active rust under the foam padding. Objects in fur 
storage are covered in mold. It is raining in the exhibit hall. This is 
the damage that occurs to museum buildings or collections when staff do 
not understand preservation environments. Preservation Environments is 
essential knowledge for any collecting institution. The course covers 
climate control basics, monitoring and psychrometrics, water, and 
preservation today and tomorrow, including LEEDS.Everyone should 
understand how humidity and temperature are controlled by a building and 
its mechanical system. For museum staff considering a new building - and 
any institution planning to expand or rebuild an existing one - 
Preservation Environments provide important information for calculating 
whether the proposed improvements will actually improve the 
environmental control of your protective enclosure. Participants learn 
the advantages and disadvantages of numerous methods of temperature and 
relative humidity control. Preservation Environments does not try to 
turn museum professionals into engineers. Rather, it arms them with the 
knowledge they need to work with engineers and maintenance 
professionals. And helps explain why damage occurred and how to keep it 
from happening again.

*Logistics:* Preservation Environments runs four weeks. Participants 
work at their own pace through six sections and interact through online 
chats. Instructor Ernest Conrad is available at scheduled times for 
email support. Preservation Environments includes online literature, 
slide lectures and student-teacher/group-teacher dialog.

*The Instructor:*
*Ernest A. Conrad's* greatest contribution to the preservation field was 
the development of environmental guidelines for engineers who work on 
museums, libraries and archives. For over 20 years, Mr. Conrad has 
focused on environmental issues. He is president of Landmark Facilities 
Group, Inc., an engineering firm specializing in environmental systems 
for museums, libraries, archives and historic facilities. A licensed 
mechanical engineer in several states, Mr. Conrad holds a bachelor's 
degree in civil engineering and a master's in environmental engineering 
from Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For more information 
visit his web site Landmark Facilities Group, Inc. <http://www.lfginc.com/>

The American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning 
Engineers, Inc. (ASHRAE) publishes standards in the areas of HVAC and 
refrigeration. Mr. Conrad  co-authored the ASHRAE Applications Handbook 
"Chapter 20: Museums, Libraries and Archives." For the first time, there 
are guidelines specific to our needs in the engineering literature. Mr. 
Conrad has studied environments and designed special climate control 
systems throughout the United States for clients as well-known as the 
National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress, The Frick Collection, 
Getty Conservation Institute, The Pierpont Morgan Library, National 
Trust for Historic Preservation, and National Park Service. He has a 
special interest in house museums and how climate affects structures and 
collections housed within those structures.

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