[Nhcoll-l] Request to Participate in IMLS Survey

[Laura Abraczinskas]

Hello,

I am posting this message on behalf of Laura Resch and Eric Breitung.
Please contact Eric Breitung (Eric.Breitung at metmuseum.org
<mailto:Eric.Breitung at metmuseum.org> ) if you have information to share!

Thank you,

Laura

 

Laura Abraczinskas, Collections Manager

Vertebrate Collections

Michigan State University Museum

409 West Circle Drive

East Lansing, Michigan  48824

USA

 

(517) 355-1290 (Office)

 

 

From: Laura Gaylord Resch [mailto:LResch at clevelandart.org] 
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 4:13 PM
To: Laura Abraczinskas <abraczi1 at msu.edu>
Subject: Request to Participate in IMLS Survey

 

Dear Natural History Collections Community,

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's (The Met) Department of Scientific Research
is embarking on an Institute of Museum and Library Services funded project
to evaluate a wide variety of commonly used conservation, storage, shipping,
and building supplies that are readily available and used in North America.
The goal is to determine the appropriateness of those materials for use near
or in contact with cultural heritage objects, including natural history
specimens. All results and data will be made publically available at no cost
online.

We are currently seeking lists of the materials used by museums, libraries,
archives, private conservators, collections managers, or anyone whose main
business is the preservation, exhibition, transport, or handling of cultural
heritage and natural history collections.  After collating and selecting a
broad range of the most widely used and promising materials, we will conduct
both the Oddy test and a chemical analysis of volatiles for each material.  

If you are willing and interested in sharing information about materials
used in your practice of preserving, displaying, storing, or shipping
objects, please reply to Dr. Eric Breitung of The Met (contact information
below).  The call for materials will be ongoing throughout the project,
however, the main selection of materials for testing will occur by August
2017.  Those interested in contributing will be sent a basic spreadsheet
where information such as make, model, supplier, and material type can be
recorded.  Kindly note that we will select materials for testing based on
this call; even if you utilize only a handful of materials, please consider
contributing.

 

Reply to Eric.Breitung at metmuseum.org <mailto:Eric.Breitung at metmuseum.org>  

 

 

Laura Gaylord Resch
Conservation Technician/Environmental Technician
Conservation
The Cleveland Museum of Art
11150 East Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio 44106-1797

T  216-707-6854
F  216-229-2881

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