[NHCOLL-L:4988] Museum database class online Oct 4

[Helen Alten]

*MS214: Collection Management Databases
**Instructors:* Sofia Galarza Liu and John Simmons
*Dates: *Oct 4 through Oct 29, 2010
*Location:* online at www.museumclasses.org

*Description: *A collection database is a necessary tool for accurate 
and efficient collections management. In Collection Management Databases 
you will learn what characteristics distinguish one database system from 
another; how a database can be used to manage inventory, conservation, 
pest management, and other aspects of collections management; as well as 
how to prepare your collection and documentation for entry into a 
database.  The course covers database structures and how they work, 
essential and supplementary fields, nomenclature standards and 
consistency, how to evaluation database systems, using database for more 
than registration and cataloging, upgrades, and database security.

*Instructors:*
*Sofia Galarza Liu* is the collection manager and database project 
co-manager at the Spencer Museum of Art of the University of Kansas. Ms. 
Liu is also an implementation consultant and educator for Zetcom 
Information Systems, Inc.; she provides database administrator and user 
training for United States MuseumPlus clients. Ms. Liu's accomplishments 
include completing a two-year IMLS grant funded project to digitize the 
Spencer Museum of Art's collections and attending /Museum Leaders: the 
Next Generation/ training at the Getty Leadership Institute in Los 
Angeles, California. She has a B.F.A in the History of Art and a 
Master's degree in Museum Studies from the University of Kansas.

*John E. Simmons* runs Museologica, an independent consulting company, 
and serves as Adjunct Curator of Collections at the Earth and Mineral 
Sciences Museum and Art Gallery at Pennsylvania State University. He has 
a B.S. in Systematics and Ecology and a Master's degree in Historical 
Administration and Museum Studies. Simmons worked as collections manager 
at the California Academy of Sciences and the Natural History Museum of 
the University of Kansas, where he also served as Director of the Museum 
Studies Program until 2007. He received the Superior Voluntary Service 
Award from the American Association of Museums and the Chancellor's 
Award for Outstanding Mentoring of Graduate Students from the University 
of Kansas. Simmons' publications include three books, Herpetological 
Collecting and Collections Management (2002), Cuidado, Manejo y 
Conservación de las Colecciones Biológicas (2005, with Yaneth 
Muñoz-Saba), and Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies 
(2006). He consults, teaches, and does field work in the US, Latin 
America and Asia.

For more information on this course, and to sign up for it:
http://www.collectioncare.org/training/trol_classes_ms214.html

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