Erika,
Contact Gretchen Anderson at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History who
I believe you met in Montreal at the Conference in May. She teaches our
course on Integrated Pest Management. If you need her contact info let
me know.
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Brad Bredehoft
CEO
Museum Study, LLC
www.MuseumStudy.com
On 11/8/2016 10:44 AM, Erika Range wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am doing a quick survey of other institutions policies when it comes
to pest management. I work for a large national museum in Ottawa and
we are reviewing our policies. Our museum, like many others have begun
hosting large catered events as an additional source of revenue in
these challenging times. We hire an external contractor to implement
our pest management program (apparently as a cost cutting measure),
but are disappointed in the results and the amount of our time which
goes into training these contractors. Does anyone out there have
experience with implementing policies around the expectations for
these external companies/contractors? OR do you have experience with
implementing plans which correlate to hosted/catered events?
We are also reviewing our freezing policies, and we tend to freeze
everything that comes in or out of collections and exhibit space,
(building materials, specimens, artifacts etc) as a pest infestation
would be devastating to our collection. We are curious as to the
freezing policies other institutions have specifically around freezing
non-collection materials. Could anyone share their experiences?
A reply through pest-list is fine, but I'm also happy to discuss
further using era...@mus-nature.ca <mailto:era...@mus-nature.ca>
Kindest regards,
Erika Range
