The webinars and RSVP info for the watch parties are as follows:
#1. Looking at Plastics: An Introduction to Caring for Plastics - Plastics are everywhere, they are an inescapable part of our lives both at home and in our collections. Plastics present a deceptive promise of permanence, yet their preservation is not an easy task. The goal of this webinar it to help you more fully understand different types of plastics, handling and storage methods, as well as identify plastics with the biggest deterioration risk to inform a preservation strategy for your collections.
- RSVP to Paula DePriest at DEPRIESTP@si.edu.
#2. Caring for Digital Materials: Preventing a Digital Dark Age - Why is it important to preserve digital materials? What items should we be preserving and why? This session will provide a general introduction to the series and offer strategies to help you identify and select items from your collections for digitization and digital preservation.
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- RSVP to Ricc Ferrante at FerranteR@si.edu.
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#3. The Deaccessioning Dilemma: Laws, Ethics, and Actions - This webinar will address the difference between deaccessioning and disposal of objects in the context of good collection stewardship, including criteria for justifying these decisions and deciding how to dispose of deaccessioned objects. The legal and ethical considerations of deaccessioning and disposal of objects from museum collections will be discussed, as well as and how these procedures should be documented. Critical and contentious issues will be considered including how funds from deaccessioning should be used, whether or not donors should be notified, and how to deal with public misconceptions about the process.
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- RSVP to Craig Blackwell at BlackwellC@si.edu
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#4. Beyond “No Food or Drink in the Gallery”: Food Management Strategies - Food in museums may seem at odds with collections care. How do you balance revenue-generating food service and events with protecting collections from increased risks of pest infestation and damage? How do staff meals and snacks affect collections care? What do you do if you have food items in your collection? This webinar will foster discussion of best practices for food management in museums and collections holding institutions. You can find a way to have cake and eat it (or catalog and store it), too!
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- RSVP to Cali Martin at MartinCC@si.edu.
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#5. Collections Emergency Roles and Responsibilities - This training is part of a curriculum created by PRICE to prepare collections and non-collections staff alike on responding to collections emergencies at the Smithsonian. This course focuses specifically on the different roles and responsibilities during emergencies – both collections-related and otherwise.
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- RSVP to Sam Snell at snells@si.edu
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