The cost for the workshop is $105 per person, $200 for two (same organization) or $295 for three (same organization).

Register by April 6. Librarians can earn 4 LEU credits for this workshop. This workshop is co-sponsored by Minnetrista.

For more information or to register, please e-mail localhistoryservices@indianahistory.org or call (800) 447-1830.

Creating Collections with Young Children Seminar
This innovative, one-day seminar will be offered by Smithsonian Early Enrichment Center at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. on April 25, 2009.

We will examine how you can use collections to enrich your classroom experience. Young children are natural born collectors. Toys, dolls, coins or nature's treasures such as rocks and shells appeal to young children and help them understand the world around them. Develop this innate curiosity by creating collections and exhibits that combine literature, art and objects to introduce children to the magic of museums. Through hands-on experiences and museum visits, this one-day seminar will show educators how to use collections to help children develop skills to sort, classify, observe and analyze. Enrich your teaching by developing collections that incorporate math, science, history and language arts. That is what Creating Collections with Young Children is all about.

The deadline for early registration is March 28. The early registration fee is $150. After March 28 the registration fee will increase to $175. The registration fee covers instruction, seminar resources, light breakfast, refreshments and lunch. Please check the following link to take you directly to the registration form: http://www.seec.si.edu/education.htm.

If you need further assistance, please don't hesitate contact Maria del Carmen Cossu at cossum@si.edu or (202) 633-2944 or Anna Forgerson at forgersona@si.edu or (202) 633-2945.

Planning Purpose Driven Programs Workshop
This workshop on Planning Purpose Driven Programs will be held April 22, 2009, at the Oak Park Public Library in Oak Park, Ill.

Intentional program planning is purpose-driven. It starts with the museum's intended impact. Staff should plan what they want to achieve programmatically to advance the museum's mission.

This workshop will address how to plan purpose-driven programs and highlight the link between planning and evaluation, so that your museum's goals and objectives guide program planning and frame evaluation.

A great museum places its mission at the center of daily work and decision making.  The museum aligns its practice and resources around its mission, and the institution continually learns through ongoing reflection and assessment.  By applying the ideas of Jim Collins’ Good to Great to museums, this workshop will include facilitated discussions and group exercises around these concepts:

• Clarity of Intent: Museum leadership and staff clarify the museum’s intended outcomes to achieve mission. 
• Alignment of Practice and Resources: Museum leadership and staff align their work and resources to achieve the intended outcomes.
• Culture of Inquiry:  Museum leadership and staff continually reflect on the museum’s progress and apply lessons learned in pursuit of mission.

Randi Korn, Randi Korn & Associates and Max van Balgooy, The National Trust for Historic Preservation, will instruct the workshop. The workshop is sponsored by AASLH and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

The cost is $130 for AASLH and NTHP members or $150 for nonmembers; register by April 6 at www.aaslh.org/workshop.htm or call (615) 320-3203.

For more information, contact Bethany Hawkins, Program Associate at hawkins@aaslh.org or (615) 320-3203.

Focus on Collections Care Workshop Series from BACC
This workshop series will be offered April 22 through 24, 2009, at the University of Washington in Seattle and June 3 through 5, 2009, at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

Balboa Art Conservation Center will be present a three-day workshop series designed for institutions with material-based collections. Staff involved in collections care stewardship, policy making, exhibition development, installation and students in degree related programs are encouraged to attend. A selection of workshop titles will be offered to allow participants to select the training topics appropriate to their needs and experience levels. Cost varies depending upon the number of workshops taken and individuals from qualifying institutions may apply for stipend assistance.

New Focus on Collections Care workshops being offered include:

• Preserving Museum Collections 101
• Preserving Museum Collections 301
• Care of Collections: Books
• Care of Collections: Textiles
• Care of Collections: Paper and Photographic Materials

Or participants may also enroll in the new three-day intensive Emergency Preparedness Intensive for Material Collections.

To view the complete workshop brochure with course descriptions and registration form, visit http://www.bacc.org/pdfs/BACC-seattle2009.pdf for Seattle or http://www.bacc.org/pdfs/BACC-eugene2009.pdf for Eugene.

Contact the BACC Field Service Office at (619) 236-9702 or wrfso@bacc.org with any questions.

Preservation of Photographic Materials Workshop Discounted
This live online preservation class from Lyrasis (SOLINET and PALINET) will be offered April 22 and 23 from 2 to 4 p.m. (Eastern).

Photographic materials present significant preservation concerns in library and archival collections. They are often heavily used and are fragile and susceptible to damage due to improper handling and storage conditions.  Visual examples of photographic processes and deteriorated photographs will be identified and discussed.

To receive a $40 discount on the $170 cost, enter discount code 12PPMLO409 when registering. For more information, visit http://www.solinet.net/.

Indiana Genealogical Society’s 20th Annual Conference
This conference will be held on April 25, 2009, at the Marriott East in Indianapolis. 

Pamela K. Sayre will be the featured speaker.  Other speakers include Dr. Jack Early, Curt Witcher, Bennie McRae, Dr. Alan January, Kevin Flanagan, Dona Stokes-Lucas and Ron Darrah.

For more information or to register, visit http://www.indgensoc.org/conference.php.

Museum Marauders: Integrated Preventative Pest Management Workshop
This workshop will be offered on May 6, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at Cleveland State University in Fenn Tower Room 102 at 1983 E. 24th St. in Cleveland, Ohio.

Cockroaches, carpet beetles,and clothes moths – oh my! Join nationally-known insect expert Tom Parker as he explains how to identify, understand the habits of, and non-chemically prevent or control various insect populations. The afternoon will include practical suggestions for developing an effective, low-cost, in-house pest management program. ICA and OPC members receive discounted admission!  Dr. Thomas A. Parker, Entomologist and President of Pest Control Services, Inc., will instruct the workshop.

This workshop is presented by the Intermuseum Conservation Association (http://www.ica-artconservation.org/) and co-sponsored by Cleveland State University Library Special Collections (http://web.ulib.csuohio.edu/SpecColl) and by the Ohio Preservation Council (http://opc.ohionet.org/).

The cost is $75 for ICA or OPC members and $90 for nonmembers.

To register, visit http://www.ica-artconservation.org/education/IPPMRegistrationForm.pdf.

Midwest Art Conservation Center 2009 Workshops
MACC announces the twelfth year of preservation workshops supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. These workshops are geared toward professionals in charge of historic collections, including libraries, museum studies students and private collectors.

• Dangerous Materials: Chemical Poisons in Native American and other Ethnographic Artifacts
  This workshop will be offered May 11 and 12 at the American Museum of Asmat Art on the University of St. Thomas Campus in St. Paul, Minn.
  
  Determining the potential hazards in your Native American and ethnographic collections and taking appropriate measures to mitigate those hazards necessitates a multidisciplinary team approach. This workshop, through lecture, demonstration and discussion, will detail this approach while exploring the historical use of poisons in Native American and ethnographic artifacts, how to identify them, and their potential removal.  Nancy Odegaard, Conservator, Professor and Head of the Preservation Division Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, will teach the workshop. The workshop is co-sponsored by the American Museum of Asmat Art, University of St. Thomas.
  
  The nonmember fee for this workshop is $355.
  
• Long-Range Planning for Museum Collections
  This workshop will be offered June 4 and 5 at the Chippewa Valley Museum in Eau Claire, Wis. or July 9 and 10 at the MacNider Art Museum in Mason City, Iowa.
  
  A long-range preservation/conservation plan is a document which clearly defines the present state of your collections and your intended goals for their long-term care including options for how these goals will be funded. This workshop will assist participants in developing this useful tool which is also a necessary component in grant applications for conservation funding. The instructors will work personally with participants to develop an outline to use toward completion of the plan at their home institution. This workshop is co-sponsored by The MacNider Art Museum and the Chippewa Valley Museum.
  
  The nonmember fee for this workshop is $295.
  
• Grant Writing for Advanced Conservation Projects
  This workshop will be offered Aug. 3 and 4 at MINITEX, University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, Minn.
  
  This comprehensive workshop focuses on locating and completing applications toward federal and private grants for larger projects such as long-range planning, HVAC systems and object-by-object surveys. Participants will work as a group and personally with the instructor to draft an application and receive follow up assistance after the workshop until the application is completed. This workshop is co-sponsored by MINITEX.
  
  The nonmember fee for this workshop is $245.

Discounted workshop rates are available to students and small institutions.

Further information on these workshops can be viewed at MACC’s Web site at http://www.preserveart.org/. Registrants can also contact the Preservation Services Coordinator, Melinda Markell, at (612) 870-3128 or info@preserveart.org.

Preparing for Disaster AAM Webinar
This Webinar from the American Association of Museums will be held on May 14, 2009, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. (Eastern). 

Disaster preparedness and recovery is a team effort: visitor safety, collections care, public relations and business operations. The Heritage Health Index found that over 80 percent of collecting institutions are not adequately prepared for disaster. Is yours one of them? Join experts in the field for this 90-minute program designed to help you prepare for the worst, just in case. The program will cover low-cost, practical tips for emergency preparedness, a discussion of mutual aid networks and lessons learned from the AIC-CERT teams responding to the damage from Hurricane Ike in Galveston, Texas.

Directors, collections managers, archivists, registrars, facility managers, security staff, visitor services staff should attend.  This Webinar is a great opportunity for staff to discuss and plan together!

The cost for nonmembers is $189.  AAM and AIC members may attend at no cost. Fellowships are available.

The Webinar is presented in collaboration with the American Institute for Conservation and sponsored by LearningTimes.com.

For more information, visit http://www.aam-us.org/getinvolved/learn/preparingfordisaster.cfm.

2009 Seminar for Historical Administration
The 2009 Seminar for Historical Administration will be held Oct. 31 through Nov. 21 in Indianapolis.
SHA is the longest-running and best professional development seminar in the country for history professionals, and is the only program developed specifically to improve leadership qualities for those in the field of historical administration. This intensive residential professional development experience is for history professionals with three to ten years of experience in a history institution. In addition, you will be part of an exclusive fraternity of SHA graduates and faculty that includes some of the top minds in the history field today.

SHA offers you a phenomenal professional development and networking experience. In fact, many graduates report that SHA is one of the best professional development programs they have ever been a part of. Historical administration professionals improve their leadership skills by addressing the latest issues and topics that they face.

Apply Today for the 50th SHA!  The application deadline is May 15, 2009. For more information and to apply, visit http://www.aaslh.org/histadmin.htm. For questions, contact Bob Beatty, Director of Programs at (615) 320-3203 or by e-mail at beatty@aaslh.org.

Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Sacred Vocal Music in Pennsylvania German Culture Symposium
This symposium will be held on June 20, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center at 105 Seminary St. in Pennsburg, Pa.

The symposium will focus on the history of sacred vocal music among various Pennsylvania Germans, comparing the music of the "Church" Germans–the Reformed and Lutheran groups which comprised the majority of the immigrant Germanic population of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries–and the sectarian groups, which in the case of this program includes Mennonites, Brethren, Schwenkfelders and Seventh Day Baptists at Ephrata. Rather than being musicological in scope, as many of the studies have been in the past, the Heritage Center seeks to present a discussion of the cultural heritage of vocal music, its European roots, and how it evolved in Pennsylvania.

The cost is $50 and includes continental breakfast and lunch. The cost for students and senior citizens (over 65) is $30.

For more information, visit http://www.schwenkfelder.com/, call (215) 679-3103 or e-mail info@schwenkfelder.com.