*MS210: Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives
Instructor:* Gretchen Anderson*
Dates: *Oct 4 through Nov 12, 2010*
Location: *Online at www.museumclasses.org*
Description:*
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.
*Student Comments:*
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.
She was a key member in the planning team that designed and built a new
facility for the Science Museum of Minnesota. This endeavor resulted in
not only a state of the art exhibition and storage facility, but also a
major publication about the experience of building a new museum and
creating the correct environments: _Moving the Mountain_. In 2009 she
accepted the position of conservator and head of the conservation
section at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. 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.
For more information on this course, and to sign up for it:
http://www.collectioncare.org/training/trol_classes_ms210.html
