Starting Tuesday after Labor Day Northern States
Conservation Center offers six courses covering
Collections Policies, Museum Management,
Volunteer Program Fundamentals, Museum Cleaning,
Disaster Plan Writing, and Storage
Facilities. There is still room in these courses
for students interested in building their skills
in each of these areas. All are available at www.museumclasses.org.
September Online Classes
<http://www.museumclasses.org/http://museumclasses.org/training/trol_classes_ms108a.html>MS108:
Fundamentals of Museum Volunteer Programs ** NEW ** Sep 2 - Sep 26, 2008
Instructor:
<http://www.museumclasses.org/http://museumclasses.org/training/trolinstructors.html#kh>Karin
Hostetter
<http://www.museumclasses.org/http://museumclasses.org/training/trol_classes_ms109.html>MS109:
Museum Management ** NEW ** Sep 2 - Sep 26, 2008
Instructor:
<http://www.museumclasses.org/http://museumclasses.org/training/trolinstructors.html#sn>Sue
Near
<http://www.museumclasses.org/http://museumclasses.org/training/trol_classes_ms202.html>MS202:
Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture Sep 2 - Sep 26, 2008
Instructor:
<http://www.museumclasses.org/http://museumclasses.org/training/trolinstructors.html#helen>Helen
Alten
<http://www.museumclasses.org/http://museumclasses.org/training/trol_classes_ms205a.html>MS205/6a:
Disaster Plan Research and Writing Sep 2 - Oct 10, 2008
Instructor:
<http://www.museumclasses.org/http://museumclasses.org/training/trolinstructors.html#terri>Terri
Schindel
<http://www.museumclasses.org/http://museumclasses.org/training/trol_classes_ms209a.html>MS209:
Collections Management Policies for Museums and
Related Institutions Sep 2 - Nov 14, 2008
Instructor:
<http://www.museumclasses.org/http://museumclasses.org/training/trolinstructors.html#bt>Bill
Tompkins
<http://www.museumclasses.org/http://museumclasses.org/training/trol_classes_ms217a.html>MS217:
Museum Cleaning Basics ** NEW ** Sep 2 - Sep 26, 2008
Instructor:
<http://www.museumclasses.org/http://museumclasses.org/training/trolinstructors.html#ga>Gretchen
Anderson
<http://www.museumclasses.org/http://museumclasses.org/training/trol_classes_ms002a.html>MS002a:
Collection Protection - Are you Prepared? (short course) Sep 22-26, 2008
Instructor:
<http://www.museumclasses.org/http://museumclasses.org/training/trolinstructors.html#terri>Terri
Schindel
Please sign up and pay at
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html. If
you have trouble, please contact Helen Alten at
[log in to unmask] or 651-659-9420.
More details on each course follows:
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MS 108: Fundamentals of Museum Volunteer Programs ***NEW***
Instructor: Karin Hostetter
Dates: Sept. 2-26, 2008
Cost: $425
Location: www.museumclasses.org
Description:
Volunteers are essential for most non-profit
institutions. But even though they don’t get
paychecks, it takes time and money to have
effective volunteers. Fundamentals of Museum
Volunteer Programs, new for 2008, is designed to
teach the basics of a strong volunteer
program. Topics include recruiting, training,
and rewarding volunteers, as well as preparing
staff. Instruction continues through firing and
liabilities. Participants will end up with custom
forms tailored to their institutions, an
understanding of liability issues and a nine-step
process to troubleshoot an existing volunteer
program or create the best one for a particular institution.
Course Outline
Week One
1. Introduction
2. Laying the Foundation: preparing staff, job descriptions
3. Determining Program Structure: who's in charge
Week Two
4. Recruiting Volunteers
5. Selecting Volunteers
Week Three
6. Training Volunteers
7. Evaluating Volunteers
8. Saying "Thank You"
Week Four
9. Keeping Records
10. Communicating Information: including handling change
11. Liability
12. Conclusion
Logistics:
Participants in Fundamentals of Museum Volunteer
Programs work at their own pace through sections
and interact through online chats. Instructor
Karin Hostetter is available at scheduled times
during the course for email support. Fundamentals
of Museum Volunteer Programs includes online
literature and student-teacher/group-teacher
dialog. The course is limited to 20 participants.
The Instructor
Karin Hostetter, author of a series of articles
for the National Association for Interpretation’s
Legacy magazine, has worked with volunteers for
nearly 15 years. She taught the National
Association for Interpretation’s two-day
volunteer management course for volunteer
coordinators and served on a panel about
volunteer programs. As the first paid volunteer
coordinator for the Denver Zoo in Colorado, she
designed an interview process, developed a
progressive and comprehensive recognition system,
introduced interpretation into training, and
restructured the volunteer organization. Ms.
Hostetter now consults with organizations on
structuring and improving volunteer programs. And she volunteers herself.
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MS 109: Museum Management
Instructor: Susan Near
Dates: Sep 2 - 26, 2008
Price: $425
Location: www.museumclasses.org
Description
Is your museum well run? Maybe, but few museums
are so well run they don’t need help. And a
museum manager who needs no improvement is a rare
commodity. Museum Management helps current
managers improve and gives a good foundation to
those who want to enter management. Participants
learn requirements for museum administration and
processes used to run a successful museum
efficiently and effectively. Sound business
practices and public accountability are key.
Class discussions cover current concerns, such as
how the changing cultural climate may effect
museum operations. Discussions solidify concepts
and help participants apply them to their own
situations. Class discussions also build a peer
support network that extends beyond the course.
Course Outline
1. Introduction
2. Legal and Planning Documents
3. Staff Responsibilities, Organization, & Personnel Management
4. Strategic Planning
5. Budget Management and Accountability
6. Collections Management
7. Facilities Management
8. Marketing and Community Relations
9. Development and Membership
10. Public Programs and Evaluation
11. Overview Future Trends
Logistics
Participants in Museum Management work through
sections on their own. Instructor Susan Near is
available for scheduled email support. Materials
and resources include online literature and
references, slide lectures, dialog between
students and online chats led by the instructor.
The course is limited to 20 participants. Museum Management runs four weeks.
Course Book
Museum Administration: An Introduction By Hugh H.
Genoways (University of Nebraska State Museum) and Lynne M. Ireland
(Nebraska State Historical Society), Series:
American Association for State and Local History, AltaMira Press, 2003
The Instructor
Susan Near, director of museum services for the
Montana Historical Society for 18 years, recently
became the Society’s special projects
coordinator. A graduate of the Getty’s Museum
Management Institute and the Museum Studies
Program at the University of Delaware, Ms. Near’s
extensive administrative experience includes
successful grant-writing, heritage tourism,
educational outreach, public relations,
marketing, new museum construction, personnel
management, and project and event management. She
is an accreditation visiting committee member for
the American Association of Museums, conducts
peer reviews for the Museums Assessment Program,
and reviews and serves on grants panels for the
Institute for Museum and Library Services and the
National Endowment for the Humanities. Coming
from a curatorial background, Ms. Near started
her museum career as a research specialist at the
Valley Forge Historical Society in Pennsylvania
and spent her first 7 years at the Montana
Historical Society as Registrar and then Curator.
She curated over 20 major art exhibitions and
co-authored Montana's State Capitol: The People's
House, Montana Historical Society Press, 2002.
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MS202: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture
Instructor: Helen Alten
Dates: Sep 2 - 26, 2008
Cost: $425
Location: www.museumclasses.org
Description:
Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture
concentrates on building systems and furniture
for storing and protecting collections. Topics
include environmental controls, insulation, floor
coatings and predicting space requirements.
Museum Storage also compares commercial and
homemade furniture and provides a blueprint for
planning the redesign of your facility. Storage
philosophy, construction requirements, safety and
security and planning. A new unit details how
commercial museum-quality cabinetry is
constructed. Blueprints are provided for high-quality, homemade cabinets.
Course Outline:
1. Storage Philosophy
2. Agents of Deterioration and Preservation Planning
3. Storage Facilities
4. Storage Furniture
5. Conclusion
Logistics:
Participants in Museum Storage Facilities and
Furniture work at individual paces through five
sections. Instructor Helen Alten is available at
scheduled times during the course for email
support. Resources include forums and scheduled
online chats, PowerPoint lectures, reading
materials and lecture notes and links to relevant web sites.
The Instructor:
Helen Alten is an objects conservator and owner
of Northern States Conservation Center, St. Paul,
Minnesota. She has been an educator, conservator
and trainer since 1986. Ms. Alten received her
master’s degree in archaeological conservation
and materials science at the Institute of
Archaeology, University of London in 1986. She
began working with small, rural, and tribal
museums as conservator for Montana and Alaska.
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MS205/6: Disaster Plan Research and Writing
Instructor: Terri Schindel
Dates: Sep 2 - Oct 10, 2008
Price: $475
Location: www.museumclasses.org
Description:
Every museum needs to be prepared for fires,
floods, chemical spills, tornadoes, hurricanes
and other disasters. But surveys show 80 percent
lack trained staff, emergency-preparedness plans
for their collections, or both. Disaster Plan
Research and Writing begins with the creation of
disaster-preparedness teams, the importance of
ongoing planning, employee safety, board
participation and insurance. Participants will
learn everything they need to draft their own
disaster-preparedness plans. They also will be
required to incorporate colleagues in team-building exercises.
A written disaster-preparedness plan is not only
a good idea, it’s also a requirement for
accreditation. In the second half of the course,
instructor Terri Schindel reviews and provides
input as participants write plans that outline
the procedures to follow in various emergencies.
The completed plan prepares museums physically
and mentally to handle emergencies that can harm
vulnerable and irreplaceable collections. You
will have a completed institutional
disaster-preparedness and response plan at the end of the course.
Course Outline:
1. Introduction to Disaster Planning
2. Disaster Team
3. Risk Assessment and Management
4. Health and Safety
5. Insurance
6. Documentation
7. Prioritizing Collections
8. Writing the Disaster Preparedness Plan
9. Emergency Procedures
10. Disaster Response
11. Emergency Procedures Recovery
12. Emergency Procedures Salvage
13. Emergency Procedures - Salvage Techniques and Guidelines
14. Emergency supplies and location of regional resources
15. Appendices: What to put in them
16. Next steps: planning drills and further resources
17. Conclusion
Logistics:
Participants in Disaster Plan Research and
Writing work at their own pace. Instructor Terri
Schindel is available at scheduled times for
email support. Opportunities for interaction
include forums and scheduled online chats. Each
section includes a written assignment that
becomes support material for drafting an actual
disaster preparedness plan. Materials include
readings, lecture notes, links to relevant web
sites and handouts. The course is limited to 20 participants.
Required Textbook:
Disaster Plan Research and Writing uses the
required textbook Steal This Handbook! A Template
for Creating a Museum’s Emergency Preparedness
Plan, which is available for purchase at
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html.
The Instructor:
Terri Schindel graduated from the Courtauld Art
Institute, University of London with a
concentration in textile conservation. She has
assisted small and medium sized museums in
writing disaster plans for more than a decade and
helped develop national standards for
disaster-preparedness materials. Ms. Schindel
specializes in collection care and preventive
conservation and works regularly with small, rural and tribal museums.
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MS209: Collections Management Policies
Instructor: William (Bill) Tompkins
Dates: Sept 2 - Nov 14, 2008
Price: $425
Location: www.museumclasses.org
Description:
Acquiring and holding collections impose specific
legal, ethical and professional obligations.
Museums must ensure proper management,
preservation and use of their collections. A
well-crafted collections management policy is key
to collections stewardship. Collections
Management Policies for Museums and Related
Institutions helps participants develop policies
that meet professional and legal standards for collections management.
Collections Management Policies for Museums and
Related Institutions teaches the practical skills
and knowledge needed to write and implement such
a policy. The course covers the essential
components and issues a policy should address. It
also highlights the role of the policy in
carrying out a museum’s mission and guiding
stewardship decisions. Participants are expected
to draft collections management policies.
Course Textbook:
John E. Simmons, Things Great and Small:
Collections Management Policies, American
Association of Museums, 2006, $40 non-member, $30
member, 208 pages, ISBN: 1-933253-03-7, available from the AAM bookstore
Course Outline:
1. The Principles of Collections Management
2. Collections Stewardship: The Role of a Collections Management Policy
3. Policy Versus Procedure
4. Issues to Consider When Developing a Collections Management Policy
5. Essential Components of a Collections Management Policy
· Statement of Purpose
· Statement of Authority
· Definition and Scope of Collections
· Acquisition and Accessioning
· Deaccessioning and Disposal
· Preservation
· Collections Information
· Inventory
· Risk Management and Security
· Access
· Loans
· Intellectual Property Rights Management
· Staff Responsibility / Ethics
6. Monitoring and Revision
7. Potential Problems
8. Emerging Issues
9. Drafting a Collections Management Policy
Logistics:
Participants in Collections Management Policies
work through sections at their own pace.
Instructor Bill Tompkins is available for
scheduled email support. Materials and resources
include online literature, textbook readings,
slide lectures and dialog between students and
online chats led by the instructor. The course is limited to 20 participants.
The Instructor:
William G. (Bill) Tompkins is the national
collections coordinator for the Smithsonian
Institution. Bill serves as a principal advisor
to senior Smithsonian management and staff on
collections-management policies, procedures and
standards. He develops, implements and interprets
Smithsonian collections management standards.
This includes reviewing and approving the
policies of the Smithsonian’s individual museums
to make sure collections are maintained according
to policy, professional standards and legal
obligations. Previously, Bill was assistant
director of the Smithsonian’s Office of the
Registrar. He is also a former collections
manager at the National Museum of American
History. With nearly thirty years experience in
the museum profession, Bill regularly speaks at
professional meetings, workshops and university programs.
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MS 217: Museum Cleaning Basics **NEW**
Instructor: Gretchen Anderson
Dates: Sep 2 - 26, 2008 (may run longer)
Price: $425
Location: www.museumclasses.org
Description:
Museum Cleaning Basics explores everything you
need to know about cleaning your collections.
Participants learn when to clean and when not to
clean. They also learn how to make those
decisions. Topics range from basic housekeeping
to specific techniques for specific objects. You
will learn why cleaning is important and how to
prevent damage when cleaning. We will look at
specific techniques that minimize damage while
getting the work done. And we will discuss when
to call in a specialist, such as a
conservator. Students will create a housekeeping manual for their institution.
Course Outline
1) Introduction
2) Agents of Deterioration
3) Health and safety for the object and for you
4) Equipment and supplies
5) Cleaning techniques
6) Documentation
7) Spring Cleaning: Housekeeping Manual
8) Conclusion
Logistics
Participants in Museum Cleaning Basics work
through sections at their own pace. Instructor
Gretchen Anderson is available for scheduled
email support. Materials and resources include
online literature, slide lectures and dialog
between students and online chats led by the
instructor. The course is limited to 20 participants.
The Instructor:
Objects conservator Gretchen Anderson learned her
craft at the American Museum of Natural History,
the Smithsonian’s Conservation Analytical Lab,
the Canadian Conservation Institute, Getty
Conservation Lab, the Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, and the Minnesota Historical Society. She
established the conservation department at the
Science Museum of Minnesota in 1989. Ms. Anderson
is a member of the American Institute for
Conservation and the Society for the Preservation
of Natural History Collections. She lectures and
presents workshops on preventive conservation,
IPM, and practical methods and materials for storage of collections.
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MS 002: Collection Protection Are You Prepared?
Instructor: Terri Schindel
Dates: September 22 through 26, 2008
Price: $75
Location: www.museumclasses.org
Disaster planning is overwhelming. Where do you
start? Talk to Terri about how to get going. Use
her check list to determine your level of
preparedness. What do you already have in
place? Are you somewhat prepared? What can you
do next? Participants in Collection Protection
will read literature and complete a checklist
before joining two one-hour chats to discuss
disaster preparedness at their institutions. This
is a short seminar and takes no more than 10 hours of a student’s time.
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