Classes can still be joined today and this week. Northern States Conservation Center offers four online courses covering Museum Management, Disaster Plan Writing, and Storage Facilities.
MS109: Museum Management ** NEW ** Sep 15 - Oct 10, 2008
Instructor: Sue Near
MS202: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture Sep 15 - Oct 10, 2008
Instructor: Helen Alten
MS205/6a: Disaster Plan Research and Writing Sep 15 - Oct 31, 2008
Instructor: Terri Schindel
MS002a: Collection Protection - Are you Prepared? (short course) Sep 22-26, 2008
Instructor: Terri Schindel
Please sign up and pay at http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble, please contact Helen Alten at [log in to unmask] or 651-659-9420.
More details on each course follows:
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MS205/6: Disaster Plan Research and Writing
Instructor: Terri Schindel
Dates: Sep 15 - Oct 24, 2008
Price: $475
Location: www.museumclasses.org
Description:
Every museum needs to be prepared for fires, floods, chemical spills, tornadoes, hurricanes and other disasters. But surveys show 80 percent lack trained staff, emergency-preparedness plans for their collections, or both. Disaster Plan Research and Writing begins with the creation of disaster-preparedness teams, the importance of ongoing planning, employee safety, board participation and insurance. Participants will learn everything they need to draft their own disaster-preparedness plans. They also will be required to incorporate colleagues in team-building exercises.
A written disaster-preparedness plan is not only a good idea, it's also a requirement for accreditation. In the second half of the course, instructor Terri Schindel reviews and provides input as participants write plans that outline the procedures to follow in various emergencies. The completed plan prepares museums physically and mentally to handle emergencies that can harm vulnerable and irreplaceable collections. You will have a completed institutional disaster-preparedness and response plan at the end of the course.
Course Outline:
1. Introduction to Disaster Planning
2. Disaster Team
3. Risk Assessment and Management
4. Health and Safety
5. Insurance
6. Documentation
7. Prioritizing Collections
8. Writing the Disaster Preparedness Plan
9. Emergency Procedures
10. Disaster Response
11. Emergency Procedures Recovery
12. Emergency Procedures Salvage
13. Emergency Procedures - Salvage Techniques and Guidelines
14. Emergency supplies and location of regional resources
15. Appendices: What to put in them
16. Next steps: planning drills and further resources
17. Conclusion
Logistics:
Participants in Disaster Plan Research and Writing work at their own pace. Instructor Terri Schindel is available at scheduled times for email support. Opportunities for interaction include forums and scheduled online chats. Each section includes a written assignment that becomes support material for drafting an actual disaster preparedness plan. Materials include readings, lecture notes, links to relevant web sites and handouts. The course is limited to 20 participants.
Required Textbook:
Disaster Plan Research and Writing 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 .
The Instructor:
Terri Schindel graduated from the Courtauld Art Institute, University of London with a concentration in textile conservation. She has assisted small and medium sized 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.
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MS 002: Collection Protection Are You Prepared?
Instructor: Terri Schindel
Dates: September 22 through 26, 2008
Price: $75
Location: www.museumclasses.org
Disaster planning is overwhelming. Where do you start? Talk to Terri about how to get going. Use her check list to determine your level of preparedness. What do you already have in place? Are you somewhat prepared? What can you do next? Participants in Collection Protection will read literature and complete a checklist before joining two one-hour chats to discuss disaster preparedness at their institutions. This is a short seminar and takes no more than 10 hours of a student's time.
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MS 109: Museum Management
Instructor: Susan Near
Dates: Sep 15 - Oct 10, 2008
Price: $425
Location: www.museumclasses.org
Description
Is your museum well run? Maybe, but few museums are so well run they don't need help. And a museum manager who needs no improvement is a rare commodity. Museum Management helps current managers improve and gives a good foundation to those who want to enter management. Participants learn requirements for museum administration and processes used to run a successful museum efficiently and effectively. Sound business practices and public accountability are key. Class discussions cover current concerns, such as how the changing cultural climate may effect museum operations. Discussions solidify concepts and help participants apply them to their own situations. Class discussions also build a peer support network that extends beyond the course.
Course Outline
1. Introduction
2. Legal and Planning Documents
3. Staff Responsibilities, Organization, & Personnel Management
4. Strategic Planning
5. Budget Management and Accountability
6. Collections Management
7. Facilities Management
8. Marketing and Community Relations
9. Development and Membership
10. Public Programs and Evaluation
11. Overview Future Trends
Logistics
Participants in Museum Management work through sections on their own. Instructor Susan Near is available for scheduled email support. Materials and resources include online literature and references, slide lectures, dialog between students and online chats led by the instructor. The course is limited to 20 participants. Museum Management runs four weeks.
Course Book
Museum Administration: An Introduction By Hugh H. Genoways (University of Nebraska State Museum) and Lynne M. Ireland
(Nebraska State Historical Society), Series: American Association for State and Local History, AltaMira Press, 2003
The Instructor
Susan Near, director of museum services for the Montana Historical Society for 18 years, recently became the Society's special projects coordinator. A graduate of the Getty's Museum Management Institute and the Museum Studies Program at the University of Delaware, Ms. Near's extensive administrative experience includes successful grant-writing, heritage tourism, educational outreach, public relations, marketing, new museum construction, personnel management, and project and event management. She is an accreditation visiting committee member for the American Association of Museums, conducts peer reviews for the Museums Assessment Program, and reviews and serves on grants panels for the Institute for Museum and Library Services and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Coming from a curatorial background, Ms. Near started her museum career as a research specialist at the Valley Forge Historical Society in Pennsylvania and spent her first 7 years at the Montana Historical S
ociety as Registrar and then Curator. She curated over 20 major art exhibitions and co-authored Montana's State Capitol: The People's House, Montana Historical Society Press, 2002.
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MS202: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture
Instructor: Helen Alten
Dates: Sep 15 - Oct 10, 2008
Cost: $425
Location: www.museumclasses.org
Description:
Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture concentrates on building systems and furniture for storing and protecting collections. Topics include environmental controls, insulation, floor coatings and predicting space requirements. Museum Storage also compares commercial and homemade furniture and provides a blueprint for planning the redesign of your facility. Storage philosophy, construction requirements, safety and security and planning. A new unit details how commercial museum-quality cabinetry is constructed. Blueprints are provided for high-quality, homemade cabinets.
Course Outline:
1. Storage Philosophy
2. Agents of Deterioration and Preservation Planning
3. Storage Facilities
4. Storage Furniture
5. Conclusion
Logistics:
Participants in Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture work at individual paces through five sections. Instructor Helen Alten is available at scheduled times during the course for email support. Resources include forums and scheduled online chats, PowerPoint lectures, reading materials and lecture notes and links to relevant web sites.
The Instructor:
Helen Alten is an objects conservator and owner of Northern States Conservation Center, St. Paul, Minnesota. She has been an educator, conservator and trainer since 1986. Ms. Alten received her master's degree in archaeological conservation and materials science at the Institute of Archaeology, University of London in 1986. She began working with small, rural, and tribal museums as conservator for Montana and Alaska.
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