July 16, 1997
- Is there Disaster Preparedness Software?
- Keep up the great work
- Library Rescue
- NYC Museum Security Group
- Move to weed out 'rogue' security firms
- British Sculptor Charged With Stealing Body Parts
- Barcoding--corrigendum
From: Jeffory Morris <jmorris@PILGRIM-MONUMENT.ORG>
Subject: Is there Disaster Preparedness Software?
To: MUSEUM-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Hello everyone:
Better yet, is there software to assist in the preparing and maintenance of
a museum and archives disaster preparedness plan?
If there is such an animal, is it available for the Mac?
Thank you in advance,
Jeffory Morris
Curator
Pilgrim Monument & Provincetown Museum
P.O. Box 1125, High Pole Hill
Provincetown, Massachusetts 02657 USA
jmorris@pilgrim-monument.org
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Keep up the great work
"Geoffrey Goodrich" <ggoodrich@phxart.org>
comments: I have been on the list from my home location for some
time, now that we have our network set up at the office I am
changing where I receive the information. I have coppied many of the
articles and passed them along through out our organization. The
responce has been fabulous. Keep up the great work.
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--- Forwarded Message from Arctos@worldnet.att.net ---
Subject: Library Rescue
I am writing to let you know about an emergency situation that I
believe is of great concern to the anthropological community. Thank
you in advance for taking the time to read this letter.
My name is Noga Weinstein, and I have studied and worked at the
Central American Institute of Prehistoric and Traditional Cultures at
Belize for over a year. The Institute is a non-profit research and
educational institution, established in 1991 and granted full
recognition by the Minister of Education, Government of Belize
(Education Act of 1991, Section 38). The Institute's mission is to
preserve indigenous cultures through the preservation of traditional
knowledge, and my time at the Institute has given me the opportunity
to become involved first-hand with the important research that the
Institute has been conducting in anthropology, ethnobotany, and
traditional healing techniques. (For more information about the
Institute, please, take a look at our website:
http://world.std.com/~chacmol/ .)
The Institute has the largest research and educational library in
Belize, consisting of rare and out-of-print books, field notes,
medicinal plant specimens, artifacts, slides and photographs of
indigenous groups that have already disappeared...an invaluable and
irreplaceable resource. The recent series of rain storms and
hurricanes have damaged the facility that houses the library and
archives, and moisture and worms have penetrated the building. The
collection is facing imminent destruction.
I have come back to the U.S. to try to get the word out about this
disaster. If you care about books, anthropological research,
rainforest plants, or traditional knowledge, and would like to learn
more about this emergency situation, please, e-mail me at
Arctos@worldnet.att.net, or call me at (818) 344-8516. I would be
glad to send you more information about the Institute and the
library emergency situation, answer any questions you may have, and
listen to any suggestions you may have to offer. We are in a race
against time, and need all of the help we can get.
Thank you so much for your time.
Sincerely,
Noga Weinstein
Library Rescue Operation
Central American Institute at Belize
8033 Sunset Blvd., Suite 2040
Los Angeles, CA 90046
(818) 344-8516
Arctos@worldnet.att.net
http://world.std.com/~chacmol/
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From: "Vivian C.R. James" <Eniyan@AOL.COM>
Subject: NYC Museum Security Group
To: MUSEUM-L@HOME.EASE.LSOFT.COM
Does anyone know the contact for the New York City Museum Security Group that
meets on a monthly basis?
Thanks in advance,
Vivian C.R. James
Assistant Registrar
The Newark Museum
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Move to weed out 'rogue' security firms
By Philip Johnston,
(Telegraph)
POLICE and the private security industry yesterday welcomed plans by the Home Secretary, Jack Straw, to weed out "cowboy" firms who supply "rogues and villains" as guards.
However, the new laws will not be enacted for over a year until an effective system of regulation has been agreed. Measures under consideration include statutory licensing for security guards, with penalties for firms using staff with criminal records.
Mr Straw, addressing the British Security Industry Association in London, said: "It is an extraordinary irony that an industry which attempts to regulate the behaviour of others is subject to no regulation itself. The result is that . . . cheats and villains are able to operate. These rogues undermine the fine reputation of the established companies who enforce effective standards and self-regulation."
Mr Straw said statutory regulation was "the best way to ensure proper standards, to protect the public and weed out the cowboys and the cheats who besmirch the industry's good name".
Chief Supt Brian Mackenzie, president of the Police Superintendents' Association, said: "We must be the only country in Europe which allows any Tom, Dick or Harry with a dog to guard other people's valuables and get paid for it."
The private security industry has grown considerably in recent years and is now estimated to employ 170,000 staff. In 1995, the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee heard police evidence that up to 2,600 crimes a year were committed by guards.
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British Sculptor Charged With Stealing Body Parts
LONDON (Reuter) - An aristocratic butcher-turned-sculptor with connections to Britain's royal family has been charged with stealing human body parts and using them in his art, police said Tuesday.
Anthony-Noel Kelly, a cousin of the Duke of Norfolk and a part-time teacher at Prince Charles's Institute of Architecture, and another man who is a former employee of the Royal College of Surgeons, were charged with theft.
``They are due to appear in court on Aug. 15 charged with theft of various anatomical parts belonging to the Royal College of Surgeons between June 1991 and November 1994,'' a police spokesman told Reuters.
Kelly, 41, was arrested in April after police discovered 30 human body parts in raids on his London studio and country home.
Police launched the investigation following a request from the government's inspector of anatomy, Dr. Lawrence Martin.
Kelly, who has said he found beauty in death, won recognition for his molds of heads, feet and torsos, which he said was his way of immortalizing the dead.
Some of his works, which were gilded in gold and silver, sold for thousands of dollars.
Reuters
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Date: 11 Jul 97
From: Helena Jaeschke <mrshjaeschke@msn.com>
Subject: Barcoding--corrigendum
In Conservation DistList Instance: 11:8, July 10, 1997 I wrote:
>Alpha-Dot is a lacquer containing microdots with a unique PIN number
>which can be painted onto a concealed area of an object. ...
>At
>present the kit costs 24.95 pounds sterling in the UK and the
>company telephone number is +44 573329
My apologies for an incorrect telephone number. The code
mysteriously evaporated from my first message. The number for the
Alphadot company is +44 345 573329
Thanks to Adrian Tribe for pointing this out.
Helena Jaeschke
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