Dear Lew, I would like to respond to a few items here on the list as we hope it will clarify some general questions that might be relevant for everyone on our listserv. And then we will be happy to discuss any remaining issues further off-list.
How do materials get posted on Museumpests.net? All material submitted, whether at a Working Group meeting or via the site’s online form, is reviewed by members of the group to determine whether it is appropriate for sharing on the museumpests.net site. This is our group’s peer review process. Who reviews each document depends on the content and where it might be expected to be posted on the site (e.g. Identification, Solutions, Monitoring, etc.). The website is not meant to be a comprehensive compendium of all IPM knowledge. We aim to provide concise information targeted to our core users in areas that the community has identified as most helpful. Not all material submitted is posted. Because our work takes place during the two days each year that our group gathers together, it often takes us a couple of meetings to be able to place a new resource online. We will be happy to discuss with Joshua off-list where his thesis stands in the review pipeline. What is the relationship of the IPM-Working Group (IPM-WG) and other IPM programming being offered, sometimes along with the meeting? The IPM Working Group is an ad hoc group of cultural heritage, entomology, and pest management professionals who get together for two-days each year to work on IPM related projects that benefit the work we do in our institutions and, by making the information available on the museumpests.net website, benefit the broader community of heritage professionals. We have no official status or organization. We are able to meet in person due to the generosity of various institutions that host our gathering each year. Participants cover their own costs for attending an IPM-WG meeting. There is is no fee as we consider that the intellectual and time contribution that colleagues make is a donation to the greater good. More information about the history of our group is available on the website at http://museumpests.net/about-us/ Some years our hosts have taken the initiative to offer additional programming like conferences, tours or workshop that benefit member of our group as well as the local community. The Williamsburg IPM conference and associated workshops were well attended and, we believe, a successful contribution to the Cultural Heritage/IPM community. There was a fee for attending that program as is common for most conferences and workshops. What is the upcoming workshop and what is its relationship to the IPM-WG? The workshop in San Francisco is arranged by the Foundation for the American Institute for Conservation (FAIC) and has no connection to the IPM Working Group other than the fact that the instructors contracted to teach the workshop happen to be involved with the IPM-WG. Anyone interested in attending the course in San Francisco can register via the AIC website. www.conservation-us.org/stressed-about-pests <http://www.conservation-us.org/stressed-about-pests> IPM Working Group meetings are for people involved in a sustained way with IPM and we try to make clear, not appropriate for people interested in merely learning about IPM in general. On occasion, the IPM-WG will sponsor a workshop intended as introductory training. This is done based on the request of a host institution and/or the initiative of our members. Our goal is to provide pertinent training that conservators, collection managers, registrars, curators, preparators and facility managers will find useful in combatting infestations in museums, libraries and archives. There are other providers of quality IPM training and we try to promote those programs on the musempests.net website when we are aware of them. Respectfully, Rachael Arenstein and Matthew Mickletz IPM Working Group co-chairs From: 'Lewis Freimark' via Museumpests <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2018 11:17 AM To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subject: Re: [pestlist] Integrated Pest Management Workshop Since Joshua Freimark submitted his thesis for your perusal and use along with attending the Winterthur Museum and Williamsburg workshops which we paid for,we would ask you kindly provide him with free access to this workshop in San Francisco. Sincerely Lew Freimark On Thursday, October 18, 2018, 9:33:22 AM EDT, Courses <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > wrote: The 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 (IPM) 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 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. Visit www.conservation-us.org/stressed-about-pests <http://www.conservation-us.org/stressed-about-pests> for more details and registration information. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Museumpests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . 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