Online classes at Northern States Conservation Center

Online classes for 2007
<URL:http://museumclasses.org/>

Northern States Conservation Center announces the list of online
classes being offered over the Internet for the rest of 2007.  Sign
up for two or more classes and receive a 10% discount.  We have many
new courses this year on topics ranging from archaeological
collections care, museum security and collections management
policies.  Go to <URL:http://www.museumclasses.org> for course
descriptions, instructor biographies, and course registration.

June

    MS 202: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture
    Helen Alten
    June 4-29, 2007

    MS 210: Integrated Pest Management
    Gretchen Anderson
    June 11-July 16, 2007

    MS 003: Building a Better Mousetrap (New course)
    Gretchen Anderson
    June 13, 2007
    11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (US)

July

    MS 207: Cataloging Your Collection
    Peggy Schaller
    July 1-31, 2007

    MS 104: An Introduction to Collections Preservation
    Helen Alten
    July 1-31, 2007

    MS 106: Exhibit Fundamentals: Ideas to Installation
    Lin Nelson-Mayson
    July 1-31, 2007

    MS 007: The Mission Statement: Is it really that important?
    (New course)
    Peggy Schaller
    July 11, 2007, 11 a.m. Eastern Standard time (US)

August: No museum classes

September

    MS 107: Introduction to Museum Security (New course)
    Steve Layne
    September 3-28, 2007

    MS 209: Collection Management Policies (New course)
    Bill Tompkins
    September 3-28, 2007

    MS 208: Applying Numbers to Collection Objects
    (Helen Alten)
    September3-28, 200

    MS 218: Collection Inventories (New course)
    Johanna Humphries
    September 3-28, 2007

    MS 004: When Collection Numbering Goes Bad (New course)
    Helen Alten
    September 12, 2007
    11 a.m. Eastern Standard time (US)

    MS 103: The Basics of Museum Registration
    Peggy Schaller
    September 17-October 13, 2007

October

    MS212: Care of Textiles (New course)
    Ann Coppinger
    October 1-26, 2007

    MS 215: Care of Archaeological Artifacts from Field to Lab
    (New course)
    Diana Komejan
    October 1-26, 2007

    MS 204: Materials for Storage and Display
    Helen Alten
    October 1-26, 2007

    MS 211: Preservation Environments
    (Museum Environmental Control Systems)
    Ernest Conrad
    October 1-26, 2007

    MS 005: Why Does Silk Shatter? (New course)
    October 10, 2007
    11 a.m. Eastern Standard time (US)

November

    MS 217: Museum Cleaning Basics
    Gretchen Anderson
    November 5-30, 2007 (New course)

    MS 302: Fundraising for Collections Care
    Helen Alten
    November 5-30, 2007

    MS 205/6 Disaster Plan Research and Writing (Updated)
    Terri Schindel
    October 29-December 7, 2007

    MS 213: Museum Artifacts: How they were made and how they
        deteriorate
    Helen Alten
    October 29-December 7, 2007

    MS 106: Exhibit Fundamentals: Ideas to Installation
    Lin Nelson-Mayson
    October 29-December 7, 2007

    MS 002: Collection Protection  Are you Prepared?
    (New course)
    Terri Schindel
    November 14, 2007
    11 a.m. Eastern Standard Time (US) .

December

    MS 202: Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture
    Helen Alten
    December 3-31, 2007

    MS214:  Collection Management Databases (New course)
    Eric Swanson
    December 3-31, 2007

    MS 303: Found in the Collection: Orphans, Old Loans and
        Abandoned Property (New course)
    Lin Nelson-Mayson
    December 3-31, 2007

    MS 006: What is Your Museum's Web Presence? (New course)
    Eric Swanson
    11 a.m. Eastern Standard time (US)
    December 12, 2007

Northern States Conservation Center, founded in 1997, provides
workshops, preservation assessments and conservation treatment
services to museums throughout the United States. Its mission, to
improve preservation awareness and collection care, resulted in the
creation of <URL:http://www.museumclasses.org>.

Contact:

    Helen Alten
    715 Churchill Drive
    Charleston, WV 25314
    304-346-0059
    helen [at] collectioncare__org


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