Is there any way this can be viewed on the web? If not, can this
feature be added easily? Thanks.
Marc A. Williams, President
MS in Art
Conservation, Winterthur Museum Program
Former Chief
Wooden Object Conservator, Smithsonian Institution
Fellow, American Institute for Conservation (AIC)
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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 10:16
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Preserving
Collections conservation workshops available FREE online
Free summer distance learning workshop on preserving family
and community treasures start June 14
LEARN MORE ABOUT PRESERVING TEXTILES, LEATHER, FEATHER,
HIDE, BONE, PLASTICS and OTHER ORGANIC MATERIALS in first
workshop
Staff and volunteers of museums,
historical organizations, and libraries, and members of the general public are
invited to participate in free training on caring for collections this summer.
Four distance learning workshops on preventive conservation will be offered as
part of the "Saving Nebraska's Treasures: Preventive Conservation for
Families, Museums, and Libraries" project. The workshops will be delivered via
satellite uplinks to numerous locations around the state. It will also be
offered as streaming video via the Nebraska State Historical Society and NET
web sites.
Three of the workshops will be presented by conservators
from the Nebraska
State Historical
Society's Ford
Conservation Center. Dates and workshop topics
include:
June 14 Preserving Your
Collections: Textiles, Leather, Feather, Hide,
Bone, and other Organic
Materials
July 12
Preserving Your Collections: Metal, Glass, Ceramic, Stone, and
other Inorganic Materials
August
16 Preserving Your Collections: Paper,
Photographs, Books and other Paper-based Objects
September 11 A fourth
workshop organized by the Nebraska Library Commission with presenters from
University of Nebraska-Lincoln will focus on care of materials destined to be
digitized for the commission's Nebraska Memories website.
Each workshop
is scheduled to run from 10-3, CDT. Workshops will originate from the distance
learning facility at NET, 1800 N
33rd Street in Lincoln, Nebraska. Individuals are welcome
to participate on-site. But staff, volunteers, and interested members of the
general public are also encouraged to participate at
distance learning
locations around the state. Most of the receivers for this satellite uplink
are in community colleges, public schools, and county extension offices. This
will be a one-way video link, but conservators will
be able to accept
phoned-in questions from workshop participants. The workshops will also be
offered as streaming video on the NET web site; web participants are also
welcome to call in.
Individuals interested in participating in the workshops
should register at their earliest convenience To take advantage of this
significant and no-cost training opportunity, please contact the Nebraska
State Historical Society and indicate the workshops in which workshops you'd
like to participate. Call 402-471-3272 or email [log in to unmask]
for more information and to register. For more information about technical
requirements for web streaming, visit http://www.netnebraska.org/television/
The workshops are part
of a larger project that will include broadcast of a one-hour program on NET,
"Saving Nebraska's Treasures," that is slated for broadcast July 26 on the
statewide NET network. A web site with preliminary information about
preservation of family and community collections will be launched at
the
same time. After workshops are completed, an expanded website will
provide access to practical suggestions people can use to improve the
long-term condition of objects that are important to families and
communities.
The distance learning workshops are part of a
partnership between the Nebraska State Historical Society, NET, and the
Nebraska Library Commission with funding provided in part by a grant from the
Institute of
Museum and Library
Sciences and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting Partnership for a Nation
of Learners program. For more information visit www.nebraskahistory.org
--
Lynne M. Ireland
Chief Education and Research Officer
Nebraska State Historical Society
PO Box 82554
Lincoln, NE 68501
402.471.4758 (v)
402.471.3100 (f)
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