MS 210: Integrated Pest Management for
Museums, Libraries and Archives
Dates: Mar 30 - May 15, 2009
Price: $425
Instructor: Gretchen Anderson
Description:
EEK! The only thing worse than mice or cockroaches in your kitchen,
is finding them in your museum collection. Participants in Integrated
Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives learn low-toxicity
methods of controlling infestations. IPM is the standard method for
treating incoming items and monitoring holdings. Integrated Pest
Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives discusses how infestations
occur, helps identify risks, provides feasible mitigation strategies,
discusses the different techniques of treating infested materials, and
helps you complete an IPM plan and monitoring schedule for your
institution. The course covers pest identification, insects, rodent,
birds, bats, other mammals and mold infestations, as well as other
problems raised by participants.
Course Outline:
1. IPM Introduction:
2. Pest Risks / Environmental Causes
3. Monitoring
4. Mitigation Strategies
5. Treatment Strategies
5. Regular review
6. Staff Support
7. Conclusion
Required Text Book
Pinniger, David. Pest Management in Museums, Archives and Historic
Houses. Archetype Publications, 2004. Available for purchase from
Northern States Conservation Center at
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html.
Logistics:
Participants in Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and
Archives work through eight sections at their own pace. Instructor
Gretchen Anderson is available for scheduled email support. Materials and
resources include online literature, slide lectures and dialog between
students and online chats led by the instructor. The course is limited to
20 participants.
Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives runs six
weeks. To reserve a spot in the course, please pay at
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble please
contact Helen Alten at [email protected]
Student Comments for MS210 Integrated Pest Management for Museums,
Libraries and Archives:
I'd give it a 10 out of 10.
I was able to create plans for my institution and actually put them into
action.
This class was exceptional and overall am generally pleased I took this
course. The content and material provided were so valuable for research
tools and training manuals. Thank you!
The Instructor:
Objects conservator Gretchen Anderson
learned her craft at the American Museum of Natural History, the
Smithsonian's Conservation Analytical Lab, the Canadian Conservation
Institute, Getty Conservation Lab, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
and the Minnesota Historical Society. She established the conservation
department at the Science Museum of Minnesota in 1989. She is the
co-author of A Holistic Approach to Museum Pest Management, a technical
leaflet for the American Association for State and Local History and
established a rigorous IPM program for the Science Museum. Ms. Anderson
is a member of the American Institute for Conservation and the Society
for the Preservation of Natural History Collections. She lectures and
presents workshops on preventive conservation,
IPM, cleaning in museums, and practical methods
and materials for storage of collections.
Support for the course is provided by Bio-Integral Resource Center (BIRC)
in Berkeley, California. BIRC is a nonprofit organization offering over
25 years of insight, experience and leadership in the development and
communication of least-toxic, sustainable and environmentally sound
Integrated Pest Management methods.
