The IPM Working Group would like to announce that the 2009
meeting will be held February 23-24, 2009 and hosted by the
The IPM Working Group is a group of museum professionals from various disciplines dedicated to the development of pest management resources for the general museum community. The goal of the working group meeting is not to teach IPM, but rather to focus on developing resources to make IPM easier for museum staff. We recognize that every museum has similar challenges with regards to pest management. We hope that the working group can help solve problems while alleviating the need for every museum to come up with their own solutions.
Some of the available resources include the museumpests.net website; a free pest manager downloadable database, the museum pest mailing list; templates for developing IPM policy and procedure documents, case studies on pest control treatment, PowerPoint training documents, IPM bibliographies and a list of IPM web links. All of these are accessible from the website at www.museumpests.net
This year’s meeting will allow for continued work on the
long-term goals of the various sub-committees including: Pest Imaging/identification aids, data
collection and visualization tools, and p
For more information on the working group please see the
FAQ page on www.museumpests.net.
Or contact co-chairs