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
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
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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.