Online course on disaster planning

MS 002: Collection Protection:  Are you Prepared?
Instructor: Terri Schindel
Aug 12-16, 2013
Location: online at <URL:http://www.museumclasses.org>

Description: Disaster planning is overwhelming. Where do you start?
Talk to Terri about how to get going. Use her checklist to determine
your level of preparedness. What do you already have in place? Are
you somewhat prepared? What can you do next? Help clarify your
current state of readiness and develop future steps to improve it.

Logistics: Participants in Collection Protection will read
literature and participate in two one-hour chats to discuss their
institutions disaster preparedness. 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.

Collection Protection lasts one week. To learn more about the course
and reserve a spot go to
<URL:http://www.collectioncare.org/training/trol_classes_ms002.html>
If you have trouble please contact Helen Alten at
helen<-at->collectioncare<.>org

The Instructor:

    Terri Schindel, graduated from the Courtauld Art Institute,
    University of London with a concentration in textile
    conservation. Since 1988 she has taught collections care and
    preventive conservation to museum staff. She has assisted
    museums in writing disaster plans for more than a decade and
    helped develop national standards for disaster-preparedness
    materials. Ms. Schindel specializes in collection care and
    preventive conservation and works regularly with small, rural
    and tribal museums. She is familiar with the many challenges and
    lack of resources facing these institutions. Ms. Schindel is
    committed to maintaining the uniqueness of each museum while
    ensuring that they serve as a resource for future generations.

Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten Northern States Conservation Center


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