This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Greetings! Whether preventive care tasks are a core or peripheral responsibility in your particular job, they have a profound effect on collections and overall preservation. Members of the American Institute for Conservation are proposing the creation of Collection Care Network. This new AIC Network would recognize the critical importance of preventive conservation as the most effective means of promoting the long-term preservation of cultural property. It would do so by:
* providing resources to support collections care and conservation staff * creating awareness of preventive care * identifying and developing standards and best practices, training, and other projects to advance preventive care in institutions of all types and sizes, locally, nationally and globally * and working with related groups to reach and support key collections care constituents Preventive care activities often transcend materials and institutional type and offer an excellent way to bring together people who work in varied ways with collections (i.e. collection managers, registrars, conservators, mountmakers, designers, technicians, etc.). If you are interested in supporting the creation of a Collections Care Network or have thoughts on what you would like such a group to do, we hope that you will take a look at the full proposal outlining the Goals, Rationale, Anticipated groups to be served, and Ideas for Future Projects. The proposal can be viewed on the AIC Blog at http://www.conservators-converse.org/2011/09/ccn-proposal/ If you would like to support the proposal you may do so by submitting your name and any affiliation in the comments box underneath the Blog post. Alternatively you may email the AIC e-Editor at rachael at amartconservation dot com. Please put CCN proposal in your subject line. Patricia Silence Conservator of Museum Exhibitions and Historic Interiors Colonial Williamsburg Foundation PO Box 1776 Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776 757 220 7078 fax 757 565 8752 cell 757 880 4953 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to pestlist@museumpests.Net To unsubscribe from this list send an email to pestlist@museumpests.net and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. To change to the DIGEST mode send an email to imail...@museumpests.net with this command in the body: set mode digest pestlist Any problems email l...@collectionpests.com or l...@zaks.com
