[NHCOLL-L:5845] Storage for Infinity: An Overview of Museum Storage Principles online course starts March 5

[Helen Alten]

Northern States Conservation Center announces an online course covering 
details of storage facilities and furniture starting on Monday, March 5. 
This course is appropriate for archives and library storage as well as 
museum storage.

MS 201: Storage for Infinity: An Overview of Museum Storage Principles 
(only runs once in 2012)
Instructor: Lori Benson
Dates: Mar 5 to Mar 30, 2012
Price: $475
Location: online at www.museumclasses.org

Description:
Storage for Infinity covers everything you need to know to limit damage 
to stored collections. Participants will learn about building new 
storage areas and retrofitting existing space. Other topics include 
constructing support mounts and storage security. The material 
emphasizes philosophy and planning, handling, materials and techniques.

Logistics:
Participants in Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture work at 
individual paces through five sections. Instructor Helen Alten is 
available at scheduled times during the course for email support. 
Resources include forums and scheduled online chats, PowerPoint 
lectures, reading materials and lecture notes and links to relevant web 
sites.

Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture 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:
Lori Benson is an independent museum professional based in Maine. Ms. 
Benson has a B.A. in biology and a Masters of Library and Informational 
Science specializing in rare books and archives. She started working at 
the Minnesota Historical Society in 1990, finishing a grant funded 
position as the Preservation Outreach Representative. After a series of 
project positions at the Historical Society, including Assistant Moving 
Coordinator, she was hired by the Science Museum of Minnesota as their 
first Collections Manager in 1994. She was Project Director in the 
Research and Collections Division for the new facility planning and 
move. The project was published as Moving the Mountain, the Science 
Museum of Minnesota Guide to Moving Collections. In addition to her 
position at the Science Museum, Ms. Benson was adjunct faculty at 
Dominican University/College of St. Catherine Department of Library 
Science teaching Preservation and Conservation of Library Materials and 
Archives Administration in 2000-2001. In 2003, she was hired by Texas 
Natural Science Center, University of Texas at Austin (formerly Texas 
Memorial Museum) to de-accession their entire cultural collection. She 
continues to be a University of Texas Affiliate. She has taught museum 
studies to undergraduates and given many talks and lectures on 
preservation, deaccessioning, project planning and moving. She is a 
member of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History 
Collections and the Registrars' Committee of the American Association of 
Museums. In her second life, she teaches handweaving.

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