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 		    DOCUMENT CONSERVATION :: workshops  
 

A preservation workshop for professionals and volunteers who manage collections.
Learn how to preserve your historical collection. This all-day workshop will provide museum, special collection staff and their volunteers opportunities to learn about surface cleaning, encapsulation and storage techniques through hands-on work and demonstrations. Discussion will focus on current issues in preservation such as storage and the collection environment, undertaking preservation efforts, and exploring conservation techniques.


You will learn:
  • Essential issues in preserving historical collections
  • To recognize different types of material and how their preservation varies
  • How to humidify, surface clean, and provide storage for paper materials
  • To obtain answers to the most perplexing problems about institutional collections provided from individualized pre-workshop survey


Workshop Dates for 2008:

June 17, 2008
Marion Public Library

Sept. 16, 2008
Indiana State University, Terre Haute

Be prepared to answer a pre-workshop questionnaire and return it at least two weeks prior to the workshop date. All workshops will take place from 8:30am to 4:00pm. Each is limited to 15 people; early registration is recommended. Wear comfortable clothes and be pre-pared for hands-on instruction.

Cost to Attend:

$105 per person
$200 for two people from the same organization
$295 for three people from the same organization
Registration includes lab fee to cover the cost of handouts, supplies for the hands-on activities, and the tool kit that participants take home with them.


For more information about this workshop, call the IHS at (317) 233-3110.

 

    
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