Dear IAQ-Museum Listmembers,

Could you please consider completing the following survey, and also disseminate it through your networks?

Details are further below and the survey is here:  https://goo.gl/uE0IDh

Closing date is just one week away: Wednesday 1 July 2015. (I was alerted to this forum just now)

Thanking you in advance.

All the best,

James

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Online survey invitation:
 
“Users of display cases & glazed frames for local environmental control of indoor heritage collections”
 
This survey aims to capture the recent behaviours & opinions of enclosure users from around the world – at a time of changing environmental guidelines.
 
It takes 20 – 30 minutes depending on the respondent’s experience.
 
Heritage conservation colleagues are encouraged to consider the survey and to forward this announcement to colleagues in their workplace, region & international networks.
 
The survey is looking for responses from people around the world working for heritage institutions of all sizes & types, and with any level of experience.
 
A conservator researching heritage microclimates at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom designed the survey.
 
It was tested with conservators & scientists working for metropolitan and regional institutions in the United Kingdom & France:
 
    - The British Museum
    - C2RMF, Louvre Museum
    - Museum of London
    - English Heritage
    - Birmingham Museums Trust
    - The Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
 
It is expected this research will guide the future manufacture, testing, use & maintenance of enclosures for more sustainable conservation of vulnerable exhibits.
 
The results will first be presented at the Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology Conference taking place on Tuesday 14 & Wednesday 15 July 2015 at UCL, London.
 
Survey closing date: Wednesday 1 July 2015.
 
Survey is here: https://goo.gl/5OqbkA 
 
Alternatively the survey can be shared via:
 
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/grp/home?gid=8331052
 
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ExhibitEnclosureEnvironments
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DETAILS ON RESULTS DISSEMINATION & AVAILABILITY

The survey results will first be presented during a podium presentation on Day 1 of the Science and Engineering in Arts, Heritage and Archaeology Conference taking place on Tuesday 14 & Wednesday 15 July 2015 at UCL, London: http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk/conference-programme/

The powerpoint presentation for that conference will be available according to the conference organiser's requirements. As yet, their website has not specified their plans beyond "We will publish the abstracts in a Book of Abstracts to be available online only." (http://www.seaha-cdt.ac.uk/seaha-conference-2015/call-for-abstracts/ accessed 18 June 2015)

The powerpoint presentation will be emailed to those survey respondents who choose to be contacted. It will also be publically available for download - with a link from LinkedIn's Exhibit Enclosure Environments forum.

An extended written analysis & discussion of the results, in the form of a paper, will be submitted for publication to open access and peer-reviewed heritage conservation journals.

Announcements re: dissemination of all of the above will be made here on this forum on LinkedIn's Exhibit Enclosure Environment. Feel free to suggest other outlets.

I leave it to you to decide how you might personally use the survey results. One of the survey pilots intends to use results from a specific question to form part of the evidence base for their research, which they will submit for presentation at a heritage air quality conference.

The global objective is for case manufacturers and case users to learn from the collective experiences the survey is in the process of collating. That's why multiple case manufacturer's have been invited to join LinkedIn's Exhibit Enclosure Environments forum. Please invite anyone you feel might be interested.

Note that the survey invitation is open to all users, testers and specifiers of exhibit enclosures, but not manufacturers, UNLESS (as for all categories of respondents) they are actually experienced with environmental control using enclosures.