Subject: Online course on museum storage
Northern States Conservation Center announces an online course covering details of storage facilities and furniture starting on Monday, March 5, 2012. This course is appropriate for archives and library storage as well as museum storage. MS 201: Storage for Infinity: An Overview of Museum Storage Principles (only runs once in 2012) Instructor: Lori Benson Mar 5-30, 2012 Price: $475 Location: online at <URL:http://www.museumclasses.org> Description: Storage for Infinity covers everything you need to know to limit damage to stored collections. Participants will learn about building new storage areas and retrofitting existing space. Other topics include constructing support mounts and storage security. The material emphasizes philosophy and planning, handling, materials and techniques. Logistics: Participants in Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture work at individual paces through five sections. Instructor Helen Alten is available at scheduled times during the course for email support. Resources include forums and scheduled online chats, PowerPoint lectures, reading materials and lecture notes and links to relevant web sites. Museum Storage Facilities and Furniture runs four weeks. To reserve a spot in the course, please 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: Lori Benson is an independent museum professional based in Maine. Ms. Benson has a B.A. in biology and a Masters of Library and Informational Science specializing in rare books and archives. She started working at the Minnesota Historical Society in 1990, finishing a grant funded position as the Preservation Outreach Representative. After a series of project positions at the Historical Society, including Assistant Moving Coordinator, she was hired by the Science Museum of Minnesota as their first Collections Manager in 1994. She was Project Director in the Research and Collections Division for the new facility planning and move. The project was published as Moving the Mountain, the Science Museum of Minnesota Guide to Moving Collections. In addition to her position at the Science Museum, Ms. Benson was adjunct faculty at Dominican University/College of St. Catherine Department of Library Science teaching Preservation and Conservation of Library Materials and Archives Administration in 2000-2001. In 2003, she was hired by Texas Natural Science Center, University of Texas at Austin (formerly Texas Memorial Museum) to de-accession their entire cultural collection. She continues to be a University of Texas Affiliate. She has taught museum studies to undergraduates and given many talks and lectures on preservation, deaccessioning, project planning and moving. She is a member of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections and the Registrars' Committee of the American Association of Museums. In her second life, she teaches handweaving. Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten Northern States Conservation Center *** Conservation DistList Instance 25:38 Distributed: Monday, February 20, 2012 Message Id: cdl-25-38-025 ***Received on Tuesday, 14 February, 2012