[pestlist] Creation of an Collection Care Network - lend your support
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
Re: [pestlist] Spraying pesticides outside
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. --- Aleesha - Spraying around the foundations of buildings for pests should not cause any problems to the stored collections. Making the exterior building envelope as tight as possible is critical to preventing ingress from pests. As for spraying indoors, a professional pest management firm should be instructed to use encapsulated or wettable powder formulations, which have no odor at all and provide long-term residual. If these are used, a quarterly service would suffice. Thomas A. Parker, PhD President, Entomologist Pest Control Services, Inc. 469 Mimosa Circle Kennett Square, PA 19348 610-444-2277 Office 610-444-2615 Fax 610-348-9890 Cell -Original Message- From: Aleesha Nissen aleesha.nis...@gmail.com To: pestlist pestlist@museumpests.net Sent: Thu, Sep 22, 2011 10:26 am Subject: [pestlist] Spraying pesticides outside 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. --- Hello all, I know that chemical treatment for pests inside of museums is not recommended, but what about the spraying of pesticides outside of the buildings? If Facilities insists on spraying inside, in areas that do not contain art, what is the threshold for how close those spaces can be to galleries? I worry about the ventilation system carrying fumes to other places. I appreciate any suggestions and input! Best, Aleesha Nissen Assistant Registrar Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art -- 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 -- 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
Re: [pestlist] Spraying pesticides outside
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. --- Hello Aleesha, What pests are you spraying for? Are Facilities just carrying out routine spraying regardless of evidence? What is monitoring telling you? If there are no pests maybe you don't need to spray at all? (saving time, money and poisons) I would always go the preventative route first, concentrating on monitoring and then see what you are targeting. Heather Thomas, BSc Conservation Restoration -- 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
