Required
Textbook:
Disaster Planning I uses the required textbook Steal This
Handbook! A Template for Creating a Museum's Emergency
Preparedness Plan, which is available for purchase at http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html
MS205/6: Disaster Plan Research and Writing lasts eight 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]
Student Comments for MS205/6
Disaster Plan Research and Writing:
This course was a great motivator to get me to work on the
disaster preparedness plan.
The course exceeded my expectations … I am looking forward to
developing a plan that will protect the collections. I really
enjoyed the course and plan on taking additional courses in the
future.
Terri was good at asking little questions about procedures that
I had either overlooked or had not considered, and this got me
moving in new directions.
To write the disaster preparedness and response plan, you need
to set aside a significant amount of time and this class forced
me to do that so I completed most of the plan. Hooray!
A great motivator to get me to work on the disaster preparedness
and response plan. I really appreciate Terri's time, knowledge,
and flexibility.
The Instructor:
Terri Schindel, graduated from the Courtauld
Art Institute, University of London with a concentration in
textile conservation. Since 1988 she has taught collections care
and preventive conservation to museum staff. She has assisted
museums in writing disaster plans for more than a decade and
helped develop national standards for disaster-preparedness
materials. Ms. Schindel specializes in collection care and
preventive conservation and works regularly with small, rural
and tribal museums. She is familiar with the many challenges and
lack of resources facing these institutions. Ms. Schindel is
committed to maintaining the uniqueness of each museum while
ensuring that they serve as a resource for future generations.
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