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The Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria is pleased to announce an upcoming learning opportunity for collection managers:

Collections Management
HA 488B (1.5 units); online offering

Collections and the knowledge they convey remain the cornerstone of most museums. 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 6 - August 4, 2013	

Please register by: April 8, 2013 (late registrations accepted if space permits)
Register now at:  http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/Course/Collections-Management/HA488B/

Fee: Fee: CAD$618.00 plus coursepack (prices determined by the UVic Bookstore). A CAD$100 registration deposit is required by the registration deadline. UVSS Fees will also be assessed to credit students only. Please refer to our registration and withdrawal policies. 
** PLEASE NOTE TUITION IS SUBJECT TO INCREASE IN MAY 2013.

Instructor: Richard Gerrard has held the post of Registrar for the City of Toronto's Museum Services for the last two decades. Prior to this he was a field archaeologist for eight years working in Ontario and the Canadian arctic. His teaching includes courses in collection management and digital information systems at the University of Toronto, and he has lectured on digital information preservation, artefact identification and authentication, and museum law at several universities and professional meetings. He is currently completing the research for a book about the provenance of the collection formerly at Wolford Lodge, the home of Lieutenant General John Graves Simcoe.

Enrollment options allow you to choose to take courses either to enhance professional development or build academic credit. 

This course is also one of four that are accepted toward the Professional Specialization Certificate in Collections Management, a program offered by the Cultural Resource Management Program at the University of Victoria through the Division of Continuing Studies.  For more information about the PSC in Collections Management, please visit our website:

http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/Program/Professional-Specialization-Certificate-in-Collections-Management/PSC%20CM/


How to contact us

Cultural Resource Management Program
Division of Continuing Studies
University of Victoria

Phone 250-721-6119
Fax 250-721-8774
Email [log in to unmask]

Stay up to date; check our website regularly for more news:  
www.continuingstudies.uvic.ca/cultural

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