Final call for places on:

 

What’s eating your collection?

An introduction to integrated pest management for museums, libraries, and archives

 

Date/time: Tuesday 2nd December 0930 - 1645
Venue: Museum of the Order of St. John

Cost: £80. 

 

For practitioners working with any involvement with, or responsibility for, care of collections.

 

Are there things going "crunch" in the night in your collection? Are your windowsills littered with unidentified corpses? This course aims to provide you with the knowledge to identify the main collections insect pest species, how to find insects in your collections, and how to set up a monitoring programme.

 

This one-day training course aims to introduce anyone working with collections to the basics of pest identification and pest prevention. Delivered by David Pinnigar, author of “Pest Management in Museums, Archives and Historic Houses” who has worked around the world advising and running training on pest management. The day will cover:

 

·       An introduction to the main pest insects which damage collections

 

·       What pest insects need to live

 

·       How to identify pest insects

 

·       The damage pest insects cause

 

·       Ways to prevent pest insects becoming established

 

·      Ways to control pest insects if they do cause problems

 

·       Understanding pest insect environments

 

·       How to carry out a practical survey for pest insects

 

·       Making plans to establish and embed integrated pest management in your organisation

 

Trainer: David Pinnigar

 

Maximum number: 18

 

Cost: £80. 

 

All course papers are included in the price.

To inquire into availability, or request a booking form please call 020 7549 1712, or email [log in to unmask].  Alternatively you can download a booking form by clicking here, or by copying the following into your web browser: http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/uploads/documents/MLAL_BOOKING_FORM_0809.doc

You can download a full copy of our training programme by clicking here, or copying the following into your web browser: http://www.mlalondon.org.uk/uploads/documents/MLAEVENTS0809.pdf

 

Paddy McNulty

Workforce Development and Events Manager

MLA London

 

4th Floor

53-56 Great Sutton Street

London EC1V 0DG

 

Tel: 020 7549 1711

Fax: 020 7490 5225

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Web: www.mlalondon.org.uk

 

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MLA London is the strategic regional development agency for museums, libraries and archives in London. We are part of the MLA Partnership.

 

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