Workshop on environmental monitoring

CCAHA Environmental Workshop
"Instituting A Conservation Environment Monitoring Program"
Tuesday, September 23, 1997
The Franklin Institute,
222 North 20th Street
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Audience: The workshop is intended for library, archive, house
museum, and museum professionals, as well as for architects,
engineers, and staff involved in facilities management and design.

The workshop will supply the technical background to develop support
and documentation for improving environmental conditions for
long-term preservation of cultural collections.  The workshop will
present the rationale, techniques, and equipment used to monitor the
critical environmental conditions for cultural collections.  Ways to
develop realistic methods to monitor humidity, temperature,
lighting, particulates, and gaseous contamination will be discussed,
including analysis and interpretation of hygrothermograph data.
Various types of monitoring equipment will be demonstrated, and a
useful packet of supportive information will be provided.

Speaker: William P. Lull, Principal and Senior Conservation
Environment Consultant at Garrison/Lull Inc., Princeton Junction,
NJ, and Adjunct Associate Professor of Building Technology at New
York University, will conduct the workshop.

Cost:
$45.00  CCAHA members
$50.00  Non-CCAHA members

The workshop will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.  The
registration fee includes supplementary materials and a box lunch.

The workshop is being co-sponsored by the Conservation Center for
Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA), The Franklin Institute, the
Tri-State Coalition for Historic Places, the Delaware Valley
Archivists Group, the Museum Council of Philadelphia and the
Delaware Valley, and the Tri-State College Library Cooperative.

This workshop is partially funded by the National Endowment for the
Humanities, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Dolfinger-
McMahon Foundation, the Merit Gasoline Foundation, and the Claneil
Foundation.

For further information and a registration form, please contact:

    Susan W. DuBois, Preservation Services Representative
    Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
    264 South 23rd Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19103
    215-545-0613
    Fax:  215-735-9313
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