[Nhcoll-l] April - May - June On-Line Courses -- Museum Studies, LLC

[Jeff Stephenson]

Hello,
Please see below for a compendium of on-line courses in Museum Studies and Collections Management.  This list is provided by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Professional Development Committee as a monthly service for Nhcoll subscribers.  Please contact the course providers or instructors for more information or questions.
As a reminder, Nhcoll is not open for advertising by individuals; however, if you would like to have your courses appear in this compendium, please feel free to submit your offerings to jeff.stephenson at dmns.org<mailto:jeff.stephenson at dmns.org>, and we'll see that you get in.
Thank you

>From Museum Study, LLC

Storage Techniques online course begins April 29 on MuseumStudy.com Join Instructor Rebecca Newberry for the 4 week course Storage Techniques. Is your collection at risk due to poor storage methods? Good storage mounts are essential for preserving museum collections. Building on the related course, Materials for Exhibit, Moving and Storage, in Storage Techniques, you will learn about the materials, tools, ideas and techniques needed to create quality storage mounts. You will design and build a storage mount for an object of your choosing and plan a storage improvement project for a collection of objects using archival materials and techniques.

For more information visit our website:

http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/storage-techniques/



Rights & Reproductions 1: Intro to IP and Licensing Best Practices 4 week online course begins May 6 on MuseumStudy.com The management and dissemination of the Intellectual Property (IP) assets maintained by cultural institutions is a key responsibility of collections care. In the four week online course Rights & Reproductions

1: Intro to IP and Licensing Best Practices participants will receive a broad overview to the key functions of a rights and reproductions specialist at a cultural institution.

For more information visit our website:

http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/rights-reproductions-1-intro-to-ip-and-licensing-best-practices/





Managing Museum Volunteers course begins May 6 on MuseumStudy.com This course will focus on strategies for running a successful volunteer program that adapts to the needs of the museum. Appropriate for professionals starting a new volunteer program or wanting to reinvigorate an existing one, this course will include topics such as:

assessing the museum's needs for volunteers; managing the recruitment, selection, onboarding, training, and evaluating of volunteers; and troubleshooting problems with volunteers. We will also consider some of the ways that volunteerism in the US is changing overall and how those changes might affect museums.

Join Instructor Tara Young for this 4 week online professional development course.

For more information visit our website:

http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/managing-museum-volunteers/



Interpretive Planning for Historic Homes and Gardens course begins May 6 on MuseumStudy.com Join interpretive planning consultant John Veverka for the 4 week online course Interpretive Planning for Historic Homes and Gardens. This course

will: Guide you in developing your interpretive plan. Give you expertise in being an interpretive planning project manager. Give you direction in writing a Request for Proposal for hiring a consultant to do an interpretive master plan for you if you don't want to do the interpretive plan yourself. Give you specific details of what should be in an Interpretive Master Plan for a Historic Home and Garden. Give you skills in reviewing draft interpretive master plans prepared by others.

For more information visit our website:

http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/interpretive-planning-for-historic-homes-and-gardens/



Social Relevance: Environmental Sustainability in Museums course begins June 3 on MuseumStudy.com The public discussion of the environment and climate change is an important opportunity for museums to connect more deeply with their communities. It is also an opportunity to protect and strengthen their institutions. Join Instructor Sarah Sutton author of Environmental Sustainability at Historic Sites and Museums, The Green Nonprofit, and Co-author of The Green Museum for this course which will be a survey of the practical aspects of interpretation and public programming, operational changes, building construction, and community engagement in service to the message of how changes in our museum work can deepen museums' connections to communities while strengthening mission fulfillment.

For more information visit our website:

http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/social-relevance-environmental-sustainability-in-museums/



Policies for Managing Collections 4 week online course begins June 3 on MuseumStudy.com Join instructor John Simmons author of Things Great and Small:

Collections Management Policies for the course Policies for Managing Collections. In this course we will critically examine the purposes and functions of collections management policies, including how collections are defined, acquired, managed, used, maintained, and deaccessioned.

This will be the first time John Simmons has taught the course since the Second Edition of Things Great and Small was released. Participants in the course can purchase the book at a discount.

For more information visit our website:

http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/policies-for-managing-collections/

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