[Nhcoll-l] MS266: Legal Issues in Collection Management

[Helen Alten]

MS266: Legal Issues in Collection Management
Instructor: John Simmons
Dates: Feb 4 to Mar 1, 2013
Price: $475
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org

Description:
In this course we will examine the most significant laws and regulations 
that affect collections management, including the legal organization of 
museums, responsibilities of governing boards, collections care, loans 
and gifts, international regulations, intellectual property, cultural 
appropriation, and freedom of expression.

Logistics:
Participants in Legal Issues in Collection Management work through 
sections at their own pace. Instructor John Simmons is available for 
scheduled email support. Materials and resources include online 
literature and dialog between students and online chats led by the 
instructor. The course is limited to 20 participants.

Legal Issues in Collection Management 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:
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 began his professional career 
as a zoo keeper, then 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 2011 Carolyn L. Rose Award for outstanding 
commitment to Natural History Collections Care and Management from the 
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, 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 Conservacisn de las Colecciones Biolsgicas 
(2005, with Yaneth Muqoz-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 visit his web site 
MUSEOLOGICA

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