MS008: Buy-In: Getting All of the Staff to Support Preservation
Instructor: Helen Alten
Dates: Feb 10 to 14, 2014
Location: online at www.museumclasses.org
Description:
To get anything done in your museum, you often need to get other staff
to support the idea. All too often, preservation is left to one or two
staff members and others believe it doesn't apply to them. For example,
it is hard to successfully implement a pest management plan without full
staff support. Everyone must buy into the notion of preservation. But
how? Readings will introduce some ideas and participants in this course
will brainstorm with Helen about what works, what might work - and what
doesn't.
Logistics:
Participants in Buy-In will read literature and participate in two
one-hour chats to discuss how to get other staff to support
preservation. Each student should read course materials and prepare
questions or comments to share with the other students in the chat. This
is a mini-course and takes no more than 10 hours of a student's time.
This is an opportunity to brain-storm with colleagues about what works
and what doesn't work.
To learn more about the course, go to at
http://www.collectioncare.org/training/trol_classes_ms008.html If you
have trouble please contact us at [log in to unmask]
The Instructor:
Helen Alten, is the Director of the Sheldon Museum in Haines, Alaska and
Founder of Northern States Conservation Center. For nearly 30 years she
has been involved in objects conservation, starting as a pre-program
intern at the Oriental Institute in Chicago and the University Museum of
the University of Pennsylvania. She completed a degree in Archaeological
Conservation and Materials Science from the Institute of Archaeology at
the University of London in England. She has built and run conservation
laboratories in Bulgaria, Montana, Greece, Alaska and Minnesota. She has
a broad understanding of three-dimensional materials and their
deterioration, is a writer for Collections Caretaker, built the popular
www.collectioncare.org web site, lectures throughout the United States
on collection care topics, was instrumental in developing a state-wide
protocol for disaster response in small Minnesota museums, has written,
received and reviewed grants for NEH and IMLS, worked with local
foundations funding one of her pilot programs, and is always in search
of the perfect museum mannequin. She has published chapters on
conservation and deterioration of archeological glass with the Materials
Research Society and the York Archaeological Trust, four chapters on
different mannequin construction techniques in Museum Mannequins: A
Guide for Creating the Perfect Fit (2002), preservation planning,
policies, forms and procedures needed for a small museum in The
Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums' Collection Initiative
Manual, and is co-editor of the penultimate book on numbering museum
collections (still in process) by the Gilcrease Museum in Oklahoma.
Helen Alten has been a Field Education Director, Conservator, and staff
trainer. She began working with people from small, rural, and tribal
museums while as the state conservator for Montana and Alaska.
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Brad Bredehoft
General Manager
Northern States Conservation Center
www.collectioncare.org
www.museumclasses.org
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