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Title: Development of Best Practices in Integrated Pest Management


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Development of Best Practices in Integrated Pest
Management
  • Christopher A. Norris
  • Lisa Kronthal Elkin

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Why Best Practices For IPM?
  • IPM was identified as a need by around 75 of
    respondents to Heritage Health Index survey, 2005

Heritage Preservation IMLS, 2005
3
The IPM Working Group
  • An ad hoc group of museum professionals
    dedicated to the development of pest management
    resources for the general museum community

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Then (2000)
5
Now (2008)..
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Resources
  • MuseumPests.net
  • PestList
  • Wiki site
  • Annual Meeting

7
Five Thematic Areas
  • Data Collection
  • Identification Aids
  • Treatments
  • Web Resources
  • Standards Best Practices

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Standards Best Practices Subgroup
  • Three main areas
  • Policies
  • Procedures
  • Tools
  • Activities
  • Gather available resources from community
  • Vet resources and make available via web
  • Develop template documents for policies and
    procedures

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What do we mean by Standards Best Practices?
  • Standard A generally accepted level of
    attainment for use as a basis of comparison in
    measuring or judging performance1 a
    codification of technology or procedure
    developed, tested, peer-reviewed, and published
    by a professional society or governmental agency
    to be adhered to by members and subscribers
    generally must be followed closely in attention
    to its prescribed detail2
  • 1 Merritt, E. 2005. Standards of Stewardship
    presentation at the annual meeting of The
    Association of College and University Museums and
    Galleries, Bloomington, Indiana, April 30, 2005.
  • 2 Hathaway, A.W., 1992. Standards, guidelines,
    and protocols Keeping our house in order. AEG
    News, 35(1) 26-28. Cited in Cato et al. (2003),
    MuseumWise Workplace Words Defined.
  • Best Practices a technique or methodology that,
    through experience and research, has proven to
    reliably lead to a desired result1 generally
    agreed upon but not legislated2. Commendable
    actions and philosophies that successfully solve
    problems, can be replicated, and demonstrate an
    awareness of standards3.
  • 1 SearchSoftwareQuality.com/definitions
  • 2 Cato et al. (2003), MuseumWise Workplace
    Words Defined.
  • 3 Merritt, E. 2005. Standards of Stewardship
    presentation at the annual meeting of The
    Association of College and University Museums and
    Galleries, Bloomington, Indiana, April 30, 2005.

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Defining the Audience
  • Who are the major players in setting procedures
    and policy within institutions?
  • Administration
  • Building Management
  • Security Safety
  • Vendors (including food services, events, etc.)
  • Research/Collections
  • Exhibition Education
  • Human Resources

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How do we influence these institutional
supergroups to deliver effective IPM?
  • Define the role of each group in IPM
  • Find an incentive, or incentives
  • Speak to their needs
  • Develop a tool to address this process
  • ? The Grid

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The Grid is not a best practices document
  • But it does lay out the framework of
    consultation that is necessary to implement an
    IPM strategy
  • And it provided the groundwork for the
    Subgroups development of best practices documents

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To download the Grid.
  • http//www.museumpests.net/tools/FINAL-SBPgrid.pd
    f

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Review
  • Pulled together a set of 46 institutional IPM
    documents
  • 28 policy documents
  • Also training resources, procedures, etc.
  • Reviewed by Subgroup for
  • Content
  • General applicability
  • 10 policy documents passed by the group
  • Sought institutional permission
  • Posted on website

17
To download sample policies
  • http//www.museumpests.net/resources/sampledocs.ht
    ml

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Minimum Requirements for an IPM Policy
  • Introduction
  • Objective/Scope
  • Justification
  • Applicability
  • Overall responsibility
  • Other roles and responsibilities
  • Training
  • Support/Budget
  • Best Practices
  • Monitoring
  • Remedial Action
  • Documentation
  • Review/Revision

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Policy Template
  • Uses the minimum requirements
  • Provides guidance notes under each heading
  • Notes were based on Grids recommendations for
    framing and targeting content

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Minimum Requirements for IPM Procedures
  • Introduction
  • Applicability
  • Roles and responsibilities
  • Procedure-Specific Information
  • Monitoring
  • Documentation
  • Review/Revision

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Seven Procedure Templates
  • Who is the IPM plan directed at?
  • Control of Access
  • Control of Environment
  • Housekeeping/Removal of Shelter
  • Control of Food/Live Plants/Catering
  • Monitoring/Data Analysis
  • Treatment

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To Download Templates
  • http//www.museumpests.net/tools/templates.htm

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The membership of IPM-WG is broad
  • IPM-WG draws from the experiences and expertise
    of a wide range of individuals and institutions.
  • This breadth of input is vital when determining
    best practices
  • In the longer term, its also essential for the
    development of effective standards

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This has been a community-led and supported,
grass roots process
  • IPM-WG is not affiliated with any particular
    institution or society
  • Although AMNH has hosted all the meetings to
    date, individuals and their institutions meet the
    costs of attending
  • We receive a small amount of sponsorship and our
    website is hosted by one of the participants, Zak
    Software

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IPM-WG is an open group..
  • A general invitation to the meeting is sent out
    via listservers anyone from the community who
    wants to attend can do so
  • The work processes are transparent all
    documents are posted for comment and review on
    the Wiki site.

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Our goals are practical
  • Throughout the process, our goals have been
    practical to develop tools and resources that
    can be downloaded and used by any institution

27
IPM-WG may act as a model
  • IPM-WG provides an example of how standards and
    best practices can be framed in a community-led
    process that goes across traditional
    institutional and disciplinary boundaries
  • The development of The Grid as a first stage
    enabled us to frame documents that would speak
    directly to the major institutional players in
    any IPM plan. We think this approach is widely
    applicable to standards and other policy
    development

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Standards or Best Practices?
Standard A generally accepted level of
attainment for use as a basis of comparison in
measuring or judging performance a codification
of technology or procedure developed, tested,
peer-reviewed, and published by a professional
society or governmental agency to be adhered to
by members and subscribers generally must be
followed closely in attention to its prescribed
detail Best Practices a technique or
methodology that, through experience and
research, has proven to reliably lead to a
desired result1 generally agreed upon but not
legislated. Commendable actions and philosophies
that successfully solve problems, can be
replicated, and demonstrate an awareness of
standards.
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Want to know more?
  • To join IPM-WG
  • Rachael Arenstein rachaelarenstein_at_hotmail.com
  • To learn more about the SBP subgroup
  • Derya Golpinar dgolpinar_at_tenement.org
  • To join the Pest list
  • http//www.museumpests.net/listsignup.asp
  • To download this presentation and all other
    documents mentioned
  • http//www.museumpests.net/

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Acknowledgements
  • Rachael Arenstein, Neil Duncan, Richard Monk
  • All members of IPM-WG and especially SBP
    Subgroup Members Barbara Brown, Derya Golpinar,
    T. Rose Holdcraft, Emily Kaplan, Jeremy Jacobs,
    Gail Joice, Linda Klise, Judith Levinson, Suzanne
    Ryder, Mike Schwetz, Laura Smyk, Gwen Spicer, Tom
    Strang, Amber Tarnowski, Paul Wilkinson
  • Insects Limited, Steritech, and Zak Software for
    support of the group and the annual meetings
  • AMNH Division of Vertebrate Zoology for hosting
    the meetings
  • Alex Wild, University of Arizona, for permission
    to use insect images (myrmecos.net)

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