[NHCOLL-L:5656] Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives online course starts October 3

[Helen Alten]

MS210: Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives
Instructor: Gretchen Anderson
Dates: Oct 3 through Nov 11, 2011
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org

Description:
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.

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 If you have trouble please 
contact Helen Alten at helen at collectioncare.org

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. She was a key member in the planning team that designed 
and built a new facility for the Science Museum of Minnesota. This 
endeavor resulted in not only a state of the art exhibition and storage 
facility, but also a major publication about the experience of building 
a new museum and creating the correct environments: Moving the Mountain. 
In 2009 she accepted the position of conservator and head of the 
conservation section at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 
Pittsburgh. 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.

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