*MS008: Buy-In: Getting All of the Staff to Support Preservation*
Instructor: Helen Alten
Price: $95
Dates: Jan 24-28, 2011
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org
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Description:*
To get anything done in your museum, you often need to get other staff 
to support the idea. All too often, preservation is left to one or two 
staff members and others believe it doesn't apply to them. For example, 
it is hard to successfully implement a pest management plan without full 
staff support. Everyone must buy into the notion of preservation. But 
how? Readings will introduce some ideas and participants in this course 
will brainstorm about what works, what might work - and what doesn't.

*Logistics:*
Participants in *Buy-In* will read literature and participate in two 
one-hour chats to discuss how to get other staff to support 
preservation. Each student should read course materials and prepare 
questions or comments to share with the other students in the chat. This 
is a mini-course and takes no more than 10 hours of a student's time. 
This is an opportunity to brain-storm with colleagues about what works 
and what doesn't work.

To reserve a spot in the course, please pay at 
http://www.museumclasses.org and pay at 
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble please 
contact Helen Alten at [log in to unmask]

*The Instructor:*
*Helen Alten*, is the Director of Northern States Conservation Center 
and its chief Objects Conservator. For nearly 30 years she has been 
involved in objects conservation. She completed a degree in 
Archaeological Conservation and Materials Science from the Institute of 
Archaeology at the University of London in England. She has built and 
run conservation laboratories in Bulgaria, Montana, Greece, Alaska, 
Minnesota, and West Virginia. She has a broad understanding of 
three-dimensional materials and their deterioration. Helen currently 
conducts conservation treatments and operates a conservation center in 
Charleston, WV and St. Paul, MN.

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