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The Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria is
pleased to offer the following immersion and distance education courses.
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information about instructors, and admission and registration forms at
www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp <http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/crmp>
Collections Management with Gillian Pearson
Despite the increasing emphasis on programming, funding, public access, and
community partnerships, collections-and the knowledge they convey-remain the
cornerstone of most museums. This distance education course addresses the
roles of collections in the changing museum world, and the principles and
practices, which guide acquisition, management and use. Through innovative
course materials and regular interactions with the instructor and other
participants, you develop your ability to:
* understand historic and contemporary factors which shape
museum collections
* define how collections and their management relate to
institutional mission and community interests
* respect legal and ethical frameworks
* understand the policy framework for collections management
* undertake a range of registration and documentation
functions
* manage collections information
* ensure collection safety in storage, on exhibit, and in
transit
* address the range of current issues affecting collections
and their management
* plan for collections development
Instructor: Gillian Pearson is a Toronto-based museum consultant and former
Registrar and Director of Policy Development at the Royal Ontario Museum
Dates: January 21 - April 20
Please register by: January 7
Fees: $560
Participants' Comments:
It was wonderful, enlightening, and extremely useful.
The materials and issues presented were very contemporary in nature. I feel
less 'dated' in my background and more confident in positions.
Museum Information Management
Effective management of the wealth of museum information provides a catalyst
for strong collections, programs, and relationships with communities. This
Internet-based distance education course explores the multi-layered nature
of museum information, examines the ways in which it is understood,
organized, and accessed, and goes on to provide frameworks to support
systematic and integrated organization and management. You develop your
ability to:
* understand the importance of information to museums, and the
perspectives that influence its value
* trace the evolution of museum information management and
understand how this shapes how information is gathered, structured,
accessed, and shared
* recognize complex and interrelated types of information,
using the ICOM-CIDOC model
* understand ways in which current and emerging technologies
enable museums to gather, manage, and share this information
* recognize the importance of integrated approaches
* critically assess the information systems available to
museums
* access resources and professional networks that support
museum information management
Instructor: James Blackaby is Director of Internet Strategies and
Information Services, Mystic Seaport, Connecticut
Dates: January 17-April 21
Please register by: January 5
Fee: $589 (credit/non-credit)
Participants' Comments:
"This course was well organized and implemented...the instructor's sense of
humour and personality reach right through the ether to grab my attention."
"Other students' perspectives gave it a living dimension."
Planning for Change in Cultural Organizations with Gail Lord
Effective planning establishes the foundation on which cultural
organizations grow, change, adapt, and prosper in an uncertain world. This
on-campus immersion course explores the pervasive forces of change that are
reshaping contemporary museum roles and practices, and focuses on the ways
in which you can anticipate and lead change to ensure institutional success.
You strengthen your ability to:
* recognize the range of social, economic, and political factors that
influence change in museums
* defend core museum principles and roles in the context of change
* utilize a range of planning tools to anticipate and shape your
museum's response to change
* analyze the implications of change
* implement and manage change strategies
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* The critical role of community values and organizational mission in
the planning process are stressed throughout this on-campus immersion
course.
* Instructor: Gail Lord is principal of Lord Cultural Management, and
has extensive international experience in planning for museums and other
cultural organizations.
* Dates: February 4 - 9, with a preparatory assignment
* Please register by: January 9
* Fee: $560
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* Participant's comments:
* Very, very clear view of a complex process-how to make sense and to
organize chaos.
* Gail has a natural gift for teaching; she also has tremendously
interesting experience; knowledgeable, insightful, curious, modest,
funny-obviously a great person to work with and for.
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* Collaborative Knowledge Management in/through the Museum with James
Blackaby
* While other knowledge-based institutions tend to focus on ideas,
documentary sources, or abstractions from the real stuff of culture, museums
tackle the harder problem of making sense of "things". This three-day
on-campus workshop is for collections and information managers, curators,
and others involved in generating knowledge in and through museums and
collections. It explores the complex characteristics of museum information,
the potential and challenges inherent in effective information management,
and the ways in which collaborative management strategies with other
agencies and communities can lead towards knowledge. You strengthen your
understanding of:
* the nature of information relating to objects, people, places,
events and concepts
* the relationships among these kinds of data and their potential to
generate knowledge
* varied perspectives in the value and use of information
* issues and challenges in taking an integrated approach to managing
multiple kinds of data
* strategies for collaboration in the development and management of
information
* uncharted areas in the integrated management of educational and
programmatic information
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* This workshop may be taken on a non-credit basis or it may be taken
as an optional component of the distance course Museum Information
Management that runs from January 28 - April 30th (see Distance Education
Courses)
* Instructor: James Blackaby is Director of Internet Strategies and
Information Services, Mystic Seaport, Connecticut
* Dates: February 13 - 15
* Please register by: January 17
* Fee: $290 (non-credit; no fee for participants in Museum Information
Management)
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* Heritage Area Conservation: Strategies for Sustainable Management
with Robert Lemon
* The 17th century Muslim District in Xi'an, China is worlds and
centuries apart from Vancouver's 19th century Gastown, yet both heritage
areas share many similarities in how they can be conserved and managed. This
on-campus immersion course explores how such urban cores, large and small,
are evaluated, conserved, and developed in the context of community values
and priorities. Through lecture, discussions, field visits, case studies
that emphasize the practical application of conservation strategies you will
strengthen your ability to:
* identify and evaluate the significance of heritage areas in a range
of urban contexts
* analyze preservation concerns and issues relating to community
support, ownership, representation, access, and use
* select management approaches which respect conservation and
community goals
* build legal, community and management frameworks to ensure
sustainability
* address associated issues in economic and tourism development,
promotion, and interpretation
* learn from case studies and to make practical application of
conservation principles and objectives
* utilize effective tools for dealing with increased density within
heritage areas
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* This course will explore how this is done and emphasizes the
practical application of such techniques
*
* Instructor: Robert Lemon is an architect and heritage consultant
with twenty years of experience in heritage conservation in British Columbia
* Dates: February 25 - March 2 with preparatory assignment
* Please register by: January 21
* Fees: $589
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* Making Museums Matter with Stephen Weil
* In his 1917 essay The New Museum, pioneer North American
museologist, John Cotton Dana wrote that the first and obvious purpose of
every museum must be to add to the "happiness, wisdom and comfort" of the
community it served.
* Although museums have made great strides in their ability to survive
in an increasingly complex and competitive environment, it would be the
height of folly to confuse institutional survival with institutional
success. Survival is only a pre-condition. No less than in Dana's time,
success today must still be measured by what museums can contribute to the
"happiness, wisdom and comfort" of the communities they serve.
* This gathering of museum leaders challenges you, first, to identify,
perhaps even to rethink, the range of basic ways in which museums might
potentially contribute to the "happiness, wisdom and comfort" of their
communities and, second, to explore the particular ways in which your own
institution might fit into that range. Stephen E. Weil, one of museum
community's pre-eminent thinkers, provides the framework for a facilitated
three-day discussion in which you work with other directors, trustees, and
colleagues who shape change in museums, to:
* seek consensus on the attributes of a "good society" and how museums
in general might be uniquely capable of contributing toward the development
of those attributes
* against that background, think through the unique and defining
purposes of your own museum and how those purposes might best be articulated
to your community
* clarify the relationship of museum means (resources and operations)
with ends (desired outcomes) and recognize the danger that means may
sometimes become ends in themselves
* identify the internal/external obstacles that may interfere with
your own museum's ability to achieve desired outcomes and consider various
strategies that might be employed to overcome such obstacles
* analyze your own museum as a form of "social enterprise"
* develop measures of intermediate and ultimate institutional success
Facilitator: Stephen Weil is the emeritus senior scholar with the Center for
Education and Museum Studies at the Smithsonian Institution. His background
in law, his experience as Deputy Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, and his extensive involvement as a consultant to a range
of professional agencies and activities provide a foundation for his
reflections on the changing nature of museums in contemporary society. He is
the author of A Cabinet of Curiosities: Inquiries into Museums and Their
Prospects, Rethinking the Museum, and Beauty and the Beasts: On Museums,
Art, the Law, and the Market, as well as numerous journal articles and
conference presentations. His upcoming book Making Museums Matter is
scheduled for publication in May 2002.
Dates: March 7 - 9
Please register by: February 11
Fee: $340 (non-credit only)
Caring for Collections with Stefan Michalski
Preserving collections and providing safe and secure environments in which
they can be stored, studied and exhibited involves the coordination of a
range of complex physical and organizational factors. In this hands-on
workshop, you explore the principles and techniques of preventive care and
develop your ability to:
* recognize a range of factors that cause
deterioration
* diagnose symptoms of deterioration in collections
* assess the multiple risks to collections in a given
location, and rank order them
* understand systematically the role of facilities,
fittings, procedures and staff on control of these risks
* propose cost-effective mitigation of identified risks,
i.e. improve collection care
* resolve ethical, economic, and cultural issues
alongside risk management in
* collections care
Instructor: Stefan Michalski is the Manager of Preventive Conservation
Services with the Canadian Conservation Institute in Ottawa
Dates: April 8 - 13, with a preparatory assignment
Please register by: March 12
Fee: $560
Please contact us if you wish any further information on these sessions
offered by the University of Victoria or visit our website at
<http://www.uncs.uvic.ca/crmp>
For more information, please contact:
Lisa Mort-Putland, Program Coordinator
Cultural Resource Management Program
Continuing Studies, University of Victoria
PO Box 3030 STN CSC Victoria BC Canada V8W 3N6
Tel: 250 721-8462, Fax: 250 721-8774
Email: [log in to unmask]
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