[Nhcoll-l] Looking for participants for proposed SPNHC symposium

[John E Simmons]

I have proposed a symposium for the upcoming SPNHC meeting on the training
of collection care personnel for natural history, and am looking for
contributors who would like to speak about what training they feel is
necessary to do the job and/or the means to acquire training. If you are
interested, please contact me directly (simmons.johne at gmail.com). Whether
the symposium is accepted will depend, in part, on the contributors.

This is the symposium abstract:

Title:

The Path Forward: Learning Collection Care for a Sustainable Future



Abstract:

Training opportunities for natural history collection managers and
collections specialists include formal graduate programs, internships,
professional development workshops, and self-directed education. Each of
these options has strengths and weaknesses, but what is the best way to
learn to manage natural history collections sustainably? The speakers in
this symposium will address the advantages and disadvantages of formal
training opportunities and self-directed educational endeavors, as well as
the major topics that should be addressed in training programs such as
preventive conservation, museological theory, and specializations for the
care of geoscience collections, dry collections, fluid-preserved
collections, and archives to achieve sustainability in museum collections
management and care for the future.



John E. Simmons
Writer and Museum Consultant
Museologica
*and*
Investigador Asociado, Departamento de Ornitologia
Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima
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