Online course on staff support

MS008: Buy-In: Getting All of the Staff to Support Preservation
Instructor: Helen Alten
Price: $99
Dates: Jan 23-27, 2012
Location: online at <URL:http://www.museumclasses.org>

Description: 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 with Helen
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<-at->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, starting as a
    pre-program intern at the Oriental Institute in Chicago and the
    University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania. 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 and Minnesota.
    She has a broad understanding of three-dimensional materials and
    their deterioration, wrote and edited the quarterly Collections
    Caretaker, maintains the popular
    <URL:http://www.collectioncare.org> web site, lectures
    throughout the United States on collection care topics, was
    instrumental in developing a state-wide protocol for disaster
    response in small Minnesota museums, has written, received and
    reviewed grants for NEH and IMLS, worked with local foundations
    funding one of her pilot programs, and is always in search of
    the perfect museum mannequin.

    She has published chapters on conservation and deterioration of
    archeological glass with the Materials Research Society and the
    York Archaeological Trust, four chapters on different mannequin
    construction techniques in Museum Mannequins: A Guide for
    Creating the Perfect Fit (2002), preservation planning,
    policies, forms and procedures needed for a small museum in The
    Minnesota Alliance of Local History Museums' Collection
    Initiative Manual, and is co-editor of the penultimate book on
    numbering museum collections (still in process) by the Gilcrease
    Museum in Oklahoma. Helen Alten has been a Field Education
    Director, Conservator, and staff trainer. She began working with
    people from small, rural, and tribal museums while as the state
    conservator for Montana and Alaska. Helen currently conducts
    conservation treatments and operates a conservation center in
    Charleston, WV and St. Paul, MN.

Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center


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