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Providing collection care, preservation and conservation treatment services to collectors and collecting institutions. |
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Online Museum Classes
Description: Volunteers are essential for most non-profit institutions. But even though they don’t get paychecks, it takes time and money to have effective volunteers. Fundamentals of Museum Volunteer Programs, new for 2008, is designed to teach the basics of a strong volunteer program. Topics include recruiting, training, and rewarding volunteers, as well as preparing staff. Instruction continues through firing and liabilities. Participants will end up with custom forms tailored to their institutions, an understanding of liability issues and a nine-step process to troubleshoot an existing volunteer program or create the best one for a particular institution. Course Outline Week One 1. Introduction 2. Laying the Foundation: preparing staff, job descriptions 3. Determining Program Structure: who's in charge Week Two 4. Recruiting Volunteers 5. Selecting Volunteers Week Three 6. Training Volunteers 7. Evaluating Volunteers 8. Saying "Thank You" Week Four 9. Keeping Records 10. Communicating Information: including handling change 11. Liability 12. Conclusion Participants in Fundamentals of Museum Volunteer Programs work at their own pace through sections and interact through online chats. Instructor Karin Hostetter is available at scheduled times during the course for email support. Fundamentals of Museum Volunteer Programs includes online literature and student-teacher/group-teacher dialog. The course is limited to 20 participants. Please sign up at http://www.museumclasses.org and pay at http://www.collectioncare.org/tas/tas.html If you have trouble with either, please contact Helen Alten at helen@collectioncare.org
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Training Available
|--On-line Collection Care Classes--|--Regional Lectures & Workshops--|
|--Site Visits--|--Video-Conferencing Workshops--|--Campbell Center Curriculum--|--Other--|
