Stressed About Pests? Integrated Pest Management for Heritage Preservation Professionals Workshop will be held at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on February 28 - March 1, 2019. Rachael Arenstein and Pat Kelley will be instructing the course, presented by the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation.
Integrated Pest Management is now considered an essential component of a well-rounded preventive care policy. Preventing pest damage is better for collections and, over time, more cost effective than treating an infestation. Co-taught by a pest management professional and a conservator, this workshop is appropriate for a range of museum, library, and archive professionals including conservators, facility staff, collection managers, registrars, librarians, and archivists. Insects and vertebrate pests can do irreversible damage to objects of historic and artistic value. Preventing such damage is an essential element of best practice in collection care and requires the design and implementation of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) policy and plan. This workshop will introduce participants to multiple aspects of IPM: policy and procedure; preventing infestation; trapping and monitoring; remedial treatment; basic pest identification. It is designed for staff at institutions which need to establish or improve an IPM program but would be useful for anyone wanting to refresh basic IPM knowledge. Familiarity with concepts will be developed through a combination of lectures, discussions and hands-on exercises. The fee for this course is $299 for AIC members; $399 for non-AIC members. Registration is now open. Visit <URL: http://www.conservation-us.org/stressed-about-pests> for more information. ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
