This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Hi Jennifer,
Here at the Royal BC Museum (which includes the Provincial Archives), we have been practicing integrated pest management for many years, including the dedicated use of a quarantine room. All staff are required to deposit new acquisitions, returning loans, and any other collection (or potential collection) materials in our Inspection Room, which is located just inside the entrance to our collections storage building. This room is equipped with shelving, a layout table, drawer unit full of small hand tools, bags, poly sheeting, and so on, and two chest freezers that are maintained below -20 C. When objects come into the building, they are deposited into this room and a temporary receipt form is filled out by the depositor, as well as an entry into a log book, so that the object can be tracked. A copy of the temporary receipt goes to the Registrar so that it can be entered into our collections management database. On a daily basis, one of two conservators check the Inspection Room for new materials and proceeds with any necessary inspections. If there is any reason at all to suspect objects are infested or have been previously infested, they are bagged and frozen for at least 48 hours. After that time, they are removed from the freezer, allowed to acclimatize for 24 hours, and then cleaned of insect or other debris. The depositor is notified that the object is ready to be picked up from the Inspection Room at this time. If objects are too large or numerous for the chest freezers, we do have a walk-in freezer that we share with our mammals collections manager for this purpose. Note that many natural history specimens bypass the Inspection Room and go directly to collection area freezers where all incoming specimens are routinely frozen, whether infestation is suspected or not. Also note that this all works well for museum collections, but sometimes we are overwhelmed with retrievals from off-site storage into our archives. In that case, boxes are received at the loading dock and either inspected there, or taken into a temporary holding room in the Archives. Suspect materials may be frozen, or just quarantined, as practical. Insect or other debris is cleaned out, usually by a records curator, and the records are then available to the client. Kasey ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Kasey Lee Conservation Services Manager | Collections, Research and Access Services [cid:[email protected]] 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, BC Canada V8W 9W2 T 250 896-0383 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca<http://www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca> | www.bcarchives.bc.ca<http://www.bcarchives.bc.ca> Don't miss the 2011 Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition from the Natural History Museum and BBC Wildlife Magazine. Amazing images chosen from 41,000 entries and 95 countries, to April 9. Spring Break, March 17-25: Family tours and games, speaker series, 'Visitor Choice' photo awards. P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jennifer Varallo Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 4:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [pestlist] Quarantine policy / procedure This is a message from the Museumpests List. To post to this list send it as an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe please look at the footer of this email. ----------------------------------------------------------- Dear all, We are currently working to develop an IPM quarantine policy for one of our historic libraries, which is currently being refurbished and is scheduled to open to the public in 2015. We are keen to gather examples of quarantine procedures used by other institutions in order to give us an idea of the best approach for quarantining incoming material such as new acquisitions, objects on loan from other collections and items returned from loan. Therefore, does anyone have any information, detailing quarantine procedures in their institution, that they'd be willing to share with us? Many thanks, Jennifer Jennifer Varallo Assistant Exhibitions & Preventive Conservator Conservation & Collection Care, The Bodleian Libraries, Osney One, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0EW Tel: (01865) 2 77526 [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/services/conservation ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To send an email to the list, send your msg to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe from this list send an email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> and in the subject put: "unsubscribe" - no quotes please. You are receiving the Pestlist emails in standard mode. 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