Dear Colleagues,

 

MLA London has a number of training events coming up in the next few weeks.

 

Community Participation: How to Plan and Evaluate your Community Participation Work

Care of Collections (Objects)

Be Prepared: Developing an Emergency Plan

Volunteers: Supporting and Supervising your Volunteers

Roots to Accreditation: Module 1 – Forward Planning (Museum Accreditation training)

 

If you would like to attend any of these events please contact Rana Torsun, the Workforce Development and Events Assistant, on 020 7549 1712, or via email on [log in to unmask], and state whether you would like to attend a Roots to Accreditation or MLA core training programme.  The relevant booking form will then be sent to you.   For more information please do to the MLA London website - http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/lmal/index.cfm?ArticleID=1220&NavigationID=103.

 

Community Participation: How to Plan and Evaluate your Community Participation Work – Wednesday 14^th March 2007

 

Wednesday 14^th March

9.30am – 4.30pm

The Family Records Office, 1 Myddelton Street, London EC1R 1UW

 

This workshop will support participants identify the different aspects involved in the planning and evaluation of community participation work. It will particularly focus on the approaches to working in partnership with communities and give some concrete examples. The day will put Community Participation work in a theoretical context but will also  include practical exercises and draw upon participants own experiences.

 

Participants will be supported to identify the options available for meaningful community participation work within their own services. This will include discussion around challenges and benefits to forming sustainable partnerships with community and voluntary groups.

 

A presentation around planning and evaluation including the wider theoretical frameworks from community development and MLA sectors will support participants to undertake work on the cycle of planning and evaluation. There will then be a focus on how to set measures and indicators in order to review and inform future actions.

 

By the end of the day participants will:

 

·        Have considered the opportunities for community participation in the future service development of their own organizations

·        Have a sound understanding of the methods that can be used to plan and evaluate community partnership work

 

Care of Collections (Objects) training – Tuesday 20^th March 2007

 

There are only five places left on this event.  To book a place please contact us as soon as possible

 

Tuesday 20th March

10.00am to 4.00pm

Museum of Domestic Design &Architecture (MoDA), Middlesex

University, Cat Hill, Barnet, EN4 8HT

 

This event is aimed at practitioners who have object collections in their museums or archives.

 

Museums and archives can contain many different types of objects in their collections.  How does a museum or archive care for these objects?  If you want to find out more about collection care, acquisition and disposal policies, conservation, storage, risk assessment, and access then this one day training is for you.  It will offer participants a range of practical solutions and skills to address collection care needs, covering:

 

• Acquisition and disposal policies as they relate to conservation care
• Collection audits/overviews and documentation
• Monitoring and control of light, temperature and relative humidity
• The building shell, risk assessment and emergency planning
• Housekeeping, dirt, pollution and pests
• Handling and moving objects
• Storage and display of collections
• Access to conservation products and services.
• Case Study: Silver Studio Textile Collection, MoDA

 

The training will be facilitated by Deirdre Mulley, an ICON Accredited Conservator Deirdre has worked with over 250 museums and more comprehensive on both single issues and more comprehensive reviews of conservation and collection management issues.

 

Zoë Hendon from MoDA will present their recent Silver Studio Textile Collection project that will illustrate how these issues are put into practice. The project was aimed at improving the physical storage of, and intellectual access to, the Silver Studio textile collection.  This involved re-housing over 1000 textile samples to appropriate museum standards, cataloguing the large number of items for which no records existed, and improving the quality of existing records.

 

This training is part of the wider Roots to Accreditation Training Programme and is free of charge to all those working or volunteering for museums in London.  All the Roots to Accreditation places have now been taken.  The five remaining places are open to archives from within or outside of the London region, or museums outside of the London region.  If you are a museum form within the London the region you may still attend but the fee will be charged.

 

MLA London believes that this training would also be useful to archives in, and outside of, the London area.  If you are from an archive and would like to attend please be aware that there is a fee of £75 for archives within the 33 London boroughs and £90 for archive from outside of London..

 

If you would like to book a place please contact Bookings at MLA London, [log in to unmask] or call 0207 5491712, stating whether you are from a London museum or from an archive.

 

To view the full programme  go to http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/uploads/documents/MLAL_Training_and_Events_Jan_Jun_2007_Col.pdf

 

Be Prepared: Developing an Emergency Plan – Tuesday 19th April 2007

 

Thursday 19th April

9.30am to 4.30pm

London Transport Museum Depot, 118-120 Gunnersbury Lane, London W3 8BQ

 

Open to all museums, libraries, and archives.

 

This event is for you if you if:

 

·        are part of the team responsible for emergency planning in your organization

·        responsible for advocating preparedness planning within your organisation or externally

·        responsible for maintaining business continuity in the event of an emergency

·        responsible for collection management in your organisation

 

This one day event will be led by Jane Henderson, one of the country’s leading trainers in disaster planning, supported by a team of expert speakers. The day will cover all the stages in the process of developing an effective emergency plan, as required by the MLA’s Accreditation standard. Beyond that, it will look at business continuity, help you make the advocacy case for investment in preparedness planning and make the best use of insurance.

 

The days programme will cover:

 

Why carry out emergency planning

·        Accreditation

·        A cautionary tale

The contents of an emergency plan

Resources and Contacts: Who to contact

Emergency planning in the wider picture

·        Advocacy

·        Business continuity

Insurance

Site tour of London Transport Museum’s Acton Depot

Identifying hazards and managing risk

Priorities for salvage

Priorities for salvage

Disaster response:

·        Roles & Responsibilities

·        Site assessment

·        Salvage strategies

·        Drying techniques

Action planning

 

A light lunch will be provided

 

Places: 15 Places + 10 Roots to Accreditation places

Cost: £75 per person for participants from the 33 London boroughs: £90 for participants from outside London.  The 10 Roots to Accreditation places are available free of charge to practitioners working in museums in the London region, and have been funded through the Renaissance Museum Development Fund.

 

Volunteers: Supporting and Supervising your Volunteers – Wednesday 20^th April 2007

 

Friday 20th April

9.30am to 4.30pm

Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, London

 

This event is for anyone working with or managing volunteers in a museum, library, or archive.

 

Does your organization have volunteers? Do you want to get the best from them for your organisation and help them with their own personal or career goals?  The second workshop for organisations working with volunteers aims to clarify how supporting and supervising volunteers compares to supporting and supervising paid staff.

 

Maggie Piazza, from Volunteering England, will deliver this seminar.  It will include presentations, group discussions and exercises, action planning for the future, and case studies from a MLA sector organisation and from participants own experiences.

 

By the end of the session you will be able to:

 

·        Explain your legal obligations to volunteers

·        Implement induction / initial training that meets the needs of the volunteer and the organisation

·        Establish a range of ways for ensuring that volunteers continue to carry out appropriate tasks to a standard required by the organisation

·        Use support processes that take account of the varying support needs of volunteers

·        Ensure that volunteers have an opportunity to contribute their views about the organisation and its work

·        Identify appropriate ways to give volunteers recognition

 

A light lunch will be provided.

 

Cost: £75 for participants from the 33 London Boroughs; £90 for participants from outside of London.

 

Roots to Accreditation – Module 1: Forward Planning

 

Tuesday 3rd April 2007

10.00am to 4.00pm

British Dental Association, 64 Wimpole Street, London W1G 8YS

 

This event is funded from the Roots to Accreditation programme and is aimed at museums working towards, or considering, Museum Accreditation.  It is open to all museum workers and volunteers working in a museum in the London region at no cost.

 

Forward planning is essential to the good management and future development of your museum and a requirement of the Museum Accreditation standard. The complexity and length of your plan will depend on the scale of your organisation and it’s future development plans. This course will give you the practical skills to write a workable plan that will help you achieve your objectives. You will also be offered practical tips in how to ensure your plan doesn’t gather dust on the shelf but is a practical tool that you refer to throughout your museum’s development.

 

The course will cover the 4 main areas that the Accreditation standard require of a forward plan:

 

• Statement of purpose
• Key aims
• Specific objectives
• Spending plan

 

Facilitator: Christine Beresford, Museum Consultant

Best Practice Speaker: Handle House Museum, who received commendation for their forward plan when they achieved the Accreditation standard.

 

A light lunch will be provided.

 

 

 

Paddy McNulty

Workforce Development Co-ordinator

Direct line: 020 7549 1711

Main line: 020 7549 1700

Fax: 020 7490 5225

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