MS210: Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives
Instructor: Gretchen Anderson
Dates: Oct 1 through Nov 9, 2012
Location: Online at www.museumclasses.org
Description:
The only thing worse than mice or cockroaches in your kitchen, is
finding them in your museum collection. Participants in Integrated Pest
Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives learn low-toxicity
methods of controlling infestations. IPM is the standard method for
treating incoming items and monitoring holdings. Integrated Pest
Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives discusses how
infestations occur, helps identify risks, provides feasible mitigation
strategies, discusses the different techniques of treating infested
materials, and helps you complete an IPM plan and monitoring schedule
for your institution. The course covers pest identification, insects,
rodent, birds, bats, other mammals and mold infestations, as well as
other problems raised by participants.
Logistics:
Participants in Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and
Archives work through eight sections at their own pace. Instructor
Gretchen Anderson is available for scheduled email support. Materials
and resources include online literature, slide lectures and dialog
between students and online chats led by the instructor. The course is
limited to 20 participants.
Integrated Pest Management for Museums, Libraries and Archives runs six
weeks. To reserve a spot in the course, please pay at
http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble please
contact Helen Alten at helen@collectioncare.org
The Instructor:
Objects conservator Gretchen Anderson learned her craft at the American
Museum of Natural History, the Smithsonian's Conservation Analytical
Lab, the Canadian Conservation Institute, Getty Conservation Lab, the
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Minnesota Historical Society.
She established the conservation department at the Science Museum of
Minnesota in 1989. She is the co-author of A Holistic Approach to Museum
Pest Management, a technical leaflet for the American Association for
State and Local History and established a rigorous IPM program for the
Science Museum. She was a key member in the planning team that designed
and built a new facility for the Science Museum of Minnesota. This
endeavor resulted in not only a state of the art exhibition and storage
facility, but also a major publication about the experience of building
a new museum and creating the correct environments: Moving the Mountain.
In 2009 she accepted the position of conservator and head of the
conservation section at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in
Pittsburgh. Ms. Anderson is a member of the American Institute for
Conservation and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History
Collections. She lectures and presents workshops on preventive
conservation, IPM, cleaning in museums, and practical methods and
materials for storage of collections.
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Brad Bredehoft for Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center