Announcement for Integrated Pest Management Policies

The Integrated Pest Management Working Group (IPM-WG) is a group of 
collection managers, conservators and other professionals interested 
in issues surrounding the implementation of integrated pest 
management in museum and other collection-holding institutions. The 
group is informally hosted by the American Museum of Natural History 
in New York and meets on an ad-hoc basis. The goal of the group is to 
promote and facilitate good IPM practices and collaboration between 
staff and institutions through the development and on-line 
distribution of training materials and other resources. The group 
also maintains the IPM listserve which provides a forum for 
discussion of IPM-related topics.

One of our major objectives is to provide an on-line resource to help 
museums and other institutions develop standards and best practices 
for an Integrated Pest Management policy. Because many museums 
already have an IPM policy, the working group has begun to gather 
examples of these policies so that a comprehensive assessment can be 
made of these existing policies and to provide access to this 
information via the IPM-WG's website (www.museumpests.net). The 
intent of this on-line resource is to provide a tool to help museums 
and other institutions develop an IPM policy that fits their specific 
needs. We are asking all interested museums to send us a copy of 
their IPM policy. While you may submit it at your convenience, we 
would appreciate receiving it as soon as possible to facilitate our 
ongoing analysis. It is possible that we may request examples of 
individual policies to be made accessible over the IPM-WG's website. 
We are aware of concerns a museum may have in relation to 
permissions, credit line and anonymity, and we will certainly abide 
by a museum's wishes in regards to these issues. If you have an IPM 
policy you would like to share with us, it can be sent electronically 
to 
<http://www.museumpests.net/owbase/mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] 
or by mail to Linda Klise, Peabody Museum of Natural History, 
Paleobotany Division, Yale University, 170 Whitney Ave., P.O. Box 
208118, New Haven, CT 06520-8118. We appreciate your taking the time 
to send us this information.

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