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The Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria, British Columbia is pleased to offer the following online course for professionals and volunteers working in museums, heritage sites, and cultural centres.  The registration deadline upon us, so register today!

Collections Management

HA 488B (1.5 units); distance course offering

Explore the evolving role that collections play in your institution and community and enhance your capacity to manage collections by developing your knowledge of crucial issues, ethics, policy, technology, accessioning, cataloguing, registration, documentation and planning.  This course addresses both the roles of collections in the changing museum and heritage sector, and the principles and practices that guide their acquisition, management, and use.

Through this distance education course you'll enhance your capacity to:

• understand historic and contemporary factors which shape museum collections
• define how collections and their management relate to the institutional mission and community interests
• respect legal and ethical frameworks for collections management
• understand the policy framework for collections development and management
• understand the roles and responsibilities of the collections manager/registrar
• undertake a range of registration and documentation functions
• manage collections information
• recognize the special needs of a range of collection types and uses
• address the range of current issues affecting collections and their management
• plan for collections development in response to both institutional and community interests and needs

Dates: May 3 – August 8, 2010     

Please register by: April 5 (late registrations accepted if space permits)

To register in this course please visit https://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/aspnet/Course/Detail/?code=HA488B

Fee: CAD$582, plus coursepack/text books that are purchased directly from the University of Victoria bookstore. A $100 registration deposit is required with each registration form.

Instructor: Richard Gerrard is the Registrar, Collections and Conservation Services, with the City of Toronto and former Registrar for the Toronto Historical Board. As a Lecturer with the Museum Studies Program in the School of Graduate Studies at the University of Toronto, Mr. Gerrard shares his extensive knowledge of collections management and curatorial practice.

Enrollment options allow you to choose to take courses either to enhance professional development or build academic credit. Please see our Programs Page on our website. https://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/cultural/programs/

 

For more information, please contact:

 

Caroline Posynick, Program Coordinator

Cultural Resource Management Program

Continuing Studies, University of Victoria

PO Box 3030 STN CSC Victoria BC Canada V8W 3N6

 

Tel: 250 721-6119 Fax: 250 721-8774

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Visit our Web site! https://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/cultural/

 

 

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