[pestlist] Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives online course starts September 30
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. --- MS210: Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives Instructor: Gretchen Anderson Dates: Sept 30 through Nov 8, 2013 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. 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 learn more about the course go to http://www.collectioncare.org/training/trol_classes_ms210.html If you have trouble please contact Helen Alten at he...@collectioncare.org 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. -- Brad Bredehoft Sales and Technology Manager Northern States Conservation Center www.collectioncare.org www.museumclasses.org -- 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] Email list information
Thank you Leon. So nice to hear from the list again after 6 months. Maybe now I will be able to post to the list again. -- Brad Bredehoft CEO Museum Study, LLC www.MuseumStudy.com
[pestlist] Keeping Historic House & Museums Clean 4 week online course begins November 2 on MuseumStudy.com
An unkempt museum or historic house is not appealing to the visitor nor is it healthy for the staff and collection. In this 4 week online course instructor Gretchen Anderson will lay a foundation as to how to clean objects and facilities safely. For more information visit our website: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/keeping-historic-houses-and-museums-clean/ -- Brad Bredehoft CEO Museum Study, LLC www.MuseumStudy.com
[pestlist] We are pleased to announce our 2016 course schedule at Museum Study
It has been an exciting 2015 at Museum Study. We have added 4 new instructors and 10 new courses this year. We also host two courses for the American Association for State and Local History. All of last year's courses will be back in 2016 along with several new courses including; Emergency Preparedness, Interpretive Writing, Collections Care & Management for Archives and Works on Paper, The Interpretive Exhibit Planners Toolkit, Storage Materials, Social Relevance: Environmental Sustainability in Museums, Disaster Salvage & Recovery, Grants for Museums and Historic Sites, and Preservation Principles for Cultural Institutions. We are recruiting new instructors and additional courses are in development and will be announced as they become available. Like us on Facebook, Google+ or LinkedIn to keep updated on new developments. You can see the entire course schedule and read more about the individual courses on our website at http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/ -- Brad Bredehoft CEO Museum Study, LLC www.MuseumStudy.com
[pestlist] Introduction to Integrated Pest Management online course begins April 4 on MuseumStudy.com
Join Carnegie Museum of Natural History Conservator Gretchen Anderson for the 4 week course Introduction to Integrated Pest Management. Silverfish will eat your paper materials, moths will eat your woolens and feather objects, mice will gladly nest in anything they can! How can you protect the collection in your care from this very real and very serious threat? Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a holistic approach, using low-toxicity strategies to manage the threat. This online course explores the foundation of knowledge needed to solve pest problems in a myriad of situations that might be encountered in cultural institutions. http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/introduction-to-integrated-pest-management/ -- Brad Bredehoft CEO Museum Study, LLC www.MuseumStudy.com
[pestlist] Museum Study is pleased to announce that Dr. Robert Waller is joining our distinguished faculty
This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- Robert Waller, PhD, CAPC, FIIC is President and Senior Risk Analyst at Protect Heritage Corp. as well as Research Associate at the Canadian Museum of Nature and Adjunct Assistant Professor at Queen's University Art Conservation Program. His career started with 33 years at the Canadian Museum of Nature in various roles in management of collections and conservation. He holds a PhD in Conservation from Göteborg University Institute of Conservation and Professional Accreditation with the Canadian Association of Professional Conservators. Dr. Waller is internationally known as an expert on Cultural Property Risk Analysis. He has held workshops all over the world and for the first time will be leading online courses on this topic beginning with Assessing Risk to Cultural Property 1 in September and the 2nd in the series Assessing Risk to Cultural Property 2 in October. For more information on these and other courses we offer visit the schedule page on our website at http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-schedule/ -- Brad Bredehoft CEO Museum Study, LLC www.MuseumStudy.com - To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com
Re: [pestlist] Pest Managment Policies
Erika, Contact Gretchen Anderson at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History who I believe you met in Montreal at the Conference in May. She teaches our course on Integrated Pest Management. If you need her contact info let me know. -- Brad Bredehoft CEO Museum Study, LLC www.MuseumStudy.com On 11/8/2016 10:44 AM, Erika Range wrote: Hi everyone, I am doing a quick survey of other institutions policies when it comes to pest management. I work for a large national museum in Ottawa and we are reviewing our policies. Our museum, like many others have begun hosting large catered events as an additional source of revenue in these challenging times. We hire an external contractor to implement our pest management program (apparently as a cost cutting measure), but are disappointed in the results and the amount of our time which goes into training these contractors. Does anyone out there have experience with implementing policies around the expectations for these external companies/contractors? OR do you have experience with implementing plans which correlate to hosted/catered events? We are also reviewing our freezing policies, and we tend to freeze everything that comes in or out of collections and exhibit space, (building materials, specimens, artifacts etc) as a pest infestation would be devastating to our collection. We are curious as to the freezing policies other institutions have specifically around freezing non-collection materials. Could anyone share their experiences? A reply through pest-list is fine, but I'm also happy to discuss further using era...@mus-nature.ca <mailto:era...@mus-nature.ca> Kindest regards, Erika Range
[pestlist] Introduction to Integrated Pest Management online course begins April 3 on MuseumStudy.com
This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- Join Carnegie Museum of Natural History Conservator Gretchen Anderson for the 4 week course Introduction to Integrated Pest Management. Silverfish will eat your paper materials, moths will eat your woolens and feather objects, mice will gladly nest in anything they can! How can you protect the collection in your care from this very real and very serious threat? Integrated Pest Management (IPM) is a holistic approach, using low-toxicity strategies to manage the threat. This online course explores the foundation of knowledge needed to solve pest problems in a myriad of situations that might be encountered in cultural institutions. http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/introduction-to-integrated-pest-management/ -- Brad Bredehoft CEO Museum Study, LLC www.MuseumStudy.com - To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com
Re: [pestlist] Policies for Pest Control
This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- Jessica, You are already on this list so you have one good resource already. http://museumpests.net/ Is a great resource as well. They have a downloadable set of procedures for Control of Food and Live Plants that may be helpful. http://museumpests.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/foodplants.pdf You should definitely start a log of all pest sightings. Enlist the help of other staff members especially the cleaning staff. Create a simple form for them to fill out any time the find a pest. This will help you identify the pests, where they are coming from, what they are coming in for and hopefully help your case to make improvements to your policies. At Museum Study we teach two 4 week courses on pest management, Introduction to Integrated Pest Management and Integrated Pest Management: The Plan & Implementation. -- Brad Bredehoft CEO Museum Study, LLC www.MuseumStudy.com On 6/27/2017 5:24 PM, Jessica Farling wrote: This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- Hi everyone, I just started as director/curator for the Southern Utah Museum of Art, which is located on the campus of Southern Utah University. When I arrived last week, I was alarmed to see potted plants not only in offices but also in a gallery! Today, I spotted an insect. Can you help me identify it? Image attached. Also, if you have policies to help your museums avoid pests, would you be willing to share them with me? I need to implement those best practices here, but I'm not sure where to start. Any resources you might have would be appreciated! Sincerely, Jessica Farling /Director/Curator/ / / Southern Utah Museum of Art 351 W. University Blvd. Cedar City, UT 84720 www.suu.edu/suma <http://www.suu.edu/suma>/ / P: (435) 586-5433 | F: (435) 865-8012 jessicafarl...@suu.edu <mailto:jessicafarl...@suu.edu> - To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com - To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com
[pestlist] Keeping Historic Houses & Museums Clean course begins Aug 7 on MuseumStudy.com
This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- An unkempt museum or historic house is not appealing to the visitor nor is it healthy for the staff and collection. In this 4 week online professional development course instructor Gretchen Anderson will lay a foundation as to how to clean objects and facilities safely. For more information visit our website: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/keeping-historic-houses-and-museums-clean/ -- Brad Bredehoft CEO Museum Study, LLC www.MuseumStudy.com - To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com
[pestlist] Integrated Pest Management: The Plan and Implementation online course begins Nov 6 on MuseumStudy.com
This is a message from the Museumpests.net List. To post to this list send it as an email to pestlist@museumpests.net To unsubscribe look at the footer of this email. --- A written plan formalizes the IPM strategy and keeps management abreast of your status. It organizes your ideas and lays the groundwork for the needs of the collection and the building(s). It provides the direction in which you want to take the program, including grant funding and accreditation. Join Carnegie Museum of Natural History Conservator Gretchen Anderson for this four week online course in which participants will learn how to apply IPM principles to their specific situation and institution. A draft plan and specific implementation strategies will be developed and discussed. Even though our institutions have different challenges the exchange of ideas presents the opportunity for us to help each other brainstorm solutions that will work for our situation. For more information visit our website: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/integrated-pest-management-the-plan-implementation/ -- Brad Bredehoft CEO Museum Study, LLC www.MuseumStudy.com - To unsubscribe from this list send an email to imail...@museumpests.net and in the body put: "unsubscribe pestlist" Any problems email l...@zaks.com
