Online course on staff support

MS008: Buy-In: Getting All of the Staff to Support Preservation
Instructor: Helen Alten
Price: $95
Dates: Jan 24-28, 2011
Location: Online at <URL:http://www.museumclasses.org>

To get anything done in your museum, you often need to get other
staff to support the idea. All too often, preservation is left to
one or two staff members and others believe it doesn't apply to
them. For example, it is hard to successfully implement a pest
management plan without full staff support. Everyone must buy into
the notion of preservation. But how? Readings will introduce some
ideas and participants in this course will brainstorm about what
works, what might work--and what doesn't.

Logistics: Participants in Buy-In will read literature and
participate in two one-hour chats to discuss how to get other staff
to support preservation. Each student should read course materials
and prepare questions or comments to share with the other students
in the chat. This is a mini-course and takes no more than 10 hours
of a student's time. This is an opportunity to brain-storm with
colleagues about what works and what doesn't work.

To reserve a spot in the course, please pay at
<URL:http://www.museumclasses.org> and pay at
<URL:http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html> If you have trouble
please contact Helen Alten at helen<-a t->collectioncare< . >org

The Instructor:

    Helen Alten, is the Director of Northern States Conservation
    Center and its chief Objects Conservator. For nearly 30 years
    she has been involved in objects conservation. She completed a
    degree in Archaeological Conservation and Materials Science from
    the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London in
    England. She has built and run conservation laboratories in
    Bulgaria, Montana, Greece, Alaska, Minnesota, and West Virginia.
    She has a broad understanding of three-dimensional materials and
    their deterioration. Helen currently conducts conservation
    treatments and operates a conservation center in Charleston, WV
    and St. Paul, MN.


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