MS214: Collection Management Databases
Dates: Oct. 19 through Nov. 13, 2009
Price: $475
Instructors: Sofia Galarza Liu and John Simmons
Description:
A collection database is a necessary tool for accurate and
efficient collections management. In Collection Management
Databases you will learn what characteristics distinguish
one database system from another; how a database can be
used to manage inventory, conservation, pest management,
and other aspects of collections management; as well as how
to avoid common databasing pitfalls.
Course Outline:
1. Introduction
2. Database structures and how they work
3. Essential and supplementary fields
4. Nomenclature, standards, and consistency
5. How to evaluate database systems
6. Use of the database beyond registration and cataloging
7. Upgrades
8. Database security
9. Conclusion
Logistics:
Participants in Collection Management Databases work
through sections on their own. Instructors are 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.
Collection Management Databases runs four weeks. To reserve
a spot in the course, please pay at
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have
trouble please contact Helen Alten at
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The Instructor:
Sofía Galarza Liu is the collection manager and database
project co-manager at the Spencer Museum of Art of the
University of Kansas. Ms. Liu is also an implementation
consultant and educator for Zetcom Information Systems,
Inc.; she provides database administrator and user training
for United States MuseumPlus clients. Ms. Liu's
accomplishments include completing a two-year IMLS grant
funded project to digitize the Spencer Museum of Art's
collections and attending Museum Leaders: the Next
Generation training at the Getty Leadership Institute in
Los Angeles, California. She has a B.F.A in the History of
Art and a Master's degree in Museum Studies from the
University of Kansas.
John E. Simmons runs Museologica, an independent consulting
company, and serves as Adjunct Curator of Collections at
the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum and Art Gallery at
Pennsylvania State University. He has a B.S. in Systematics
and Ecology and a Master's degree in Historical
Administration and Museum Studies. Simmons began his
professional career as a zoo keeper, then worked as
collections manager at the California Academy of Sciences
and the Natural History Museum of the University of Kansas,
where he also served as Director of the Museum Studies
Program until 2007. He received the Superior Voluntary
Service Award from the American Association of Museums and
the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Mentoring of
Graduate Students from the University of Kansas. Simmons'
publications include three books, Herpetological Collecting
and Collections Management (2002), Cuidado, Manejo y
Conservación de las Colecciones Biológicas (2005, with
Yaneth Muñoz-Saba), and Things Great and Small: Collections
Management Policies (2006). He consults, teaches, and does
field work in the US, Latin America and Asia.
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