[NHCOLL-L:5762] Applying Numbers to Collection Objects online course starts January 9

[Helen Alten]

MS 208: Applying Numbers to Collection Objects
Instructor: Helen Alten
Price: $475
Dates: Jan 9 - Feb 2, 2012
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Applying Numbers to Collection Objects covers the materials and methods 
of object numbering: registration, handling, labeling and marking, 
number placement, documentation, health and safety, transponders and 
barcodes, surface marks, inks, paints and barrier coats. Each 
participant receives a Northern States Conservation Center collections 
labeling kit and performs experiments using its contents. Participants 
learn to determine what pen, ink, barrier coat or tag is appropriate for 
each object and storage or display situation.

Logistics:
Participants in Applying Numbers to Collection Objects work through 
seven sections at their own pace. Instructor Helen Alten will be 
available at scheduled times for email support. Participants work 
individually and interact through forums and online chats. Materials 
include PowerPoint lectures, readings, lecture notes and a collections 
labeling kit with sample materials. Additional resources include 
projects, quizzes and links to relevant web sites.

Applying Numbers to Collection Objects runs four weeks. To reserve a 
spot in the course, please pay at 
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble please 
contact Helen Alten at helen at collectioncare.org

The Instructor:
Helen Alten, is the Director of Northern States Conservation Center and 
its chief Objects Conservator. For nearly 30 years she has been involved 
in objects conservation, starting as a pre-program intern at the 
Oriental Institute in Chicago and the University Museum of the 
University of Pennsylvania. She completed a degree in Archaeological 
Conservation and Materials Science from the Institute of Archaeology at 
the University of London in England. She has built and run conservation 
laboratories in Bulgaria, Montana, Greece, Alaska and Minnesota. She has 
a broad understanding of three-dimensional materials and their 
deterioration, wrote and edited the quarterly Collections Caretaker, 
maintains the popular www.collectioncare.org web site, lectures 
throughout the United States on collection care topics, was instrumental 
in developing a state-wide protocol for disaster response in small 
Minnesota museums, has written, received and reviewed grants for NEH and 
IMLS, worked with local foundations funding one of her pilot programs, 
and is always in search of the perfect museum mannequin. She has 
published chapters on conservation and deterioration of archeological 
glass with the Materials Research Society and the York Archaeological 
Trust, four chapters on different mannequin construction techniques in 
Museum Mannequins: A Guide for Creating the Perfect Fit (2002), 
preservation planning, policies, forms and procedures needed for a small 
museum in The Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums' Collection 
Initiative Manual, and is co-editor of the penultimate book on numbering 
museum collections (still in process) by the Gilcrease Museum in 
Oklahoma. Helen Alten has been a Field Education Director, Conservator, 
and staff trainer. She began working with people from small, rural, and 
tribal museums while as the state conservator for Montana and Alaska. 
Helen currently conducts conservation treatments and operates a 
conservation center in Charleston, WV and St. Paul, MN.

-- 
Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center
www.collectioncare.org
www.museumclasses.org