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There is still room in the IPM course that starts on Monday. MS210: Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives Dates: October 12 through November 20, 2009 Price: $475 Instructor: Gretchen Anderson Description: 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. In 2009 she became the Conservator for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected] and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email [email protected]
