There is still space in the online course:*
MS214: Collection Management Databases*
Instructors: Sofia Galarza Liu and John Simmons
<http://www.collectioncare.org/training/trolinstructors.html#johns>Price: $475
Dates: Apr 4 to 29, 2011
Location: online at www.museumclasses.org
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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 prepare your collection and documentation for entry into a database.
*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 [log in to unmask]
*The Instructor:*
*Sofia 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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