{"id":12245,"date":"2015-05-06T14:54:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T19:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservators-converse.org\/?p=12245"},"modified":"2015-05-06T14:54:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T19:54:31","slug":"call-for-participants-aic-national-courier-network-system-working-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/05\/06\/call-for-participants-aic-national-courier-network-system-working-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Call for Participants: AIC National Courier Network System Working Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>AIC National Courier Network System Working Group:<\/strong><br \/>\nThe American Institute for Conservation (AIC) National Courier Network System Working Group is seeking three museum professionals to study the role of the courier and to evaluate the feasibility of reducing the carbon footprint of museum loans through reduced courier travel. The working group tasks will be divided into phases.\u00a0 In the first phase the group will write a survey with the goal of understanding different museums, galleries, collectors, and other heritage institutions\u2019 approaches and protocols regarding loaning objects.\u00a0 The survey results will ultimately be applied towards a White Paper where the working group will outline the necessary steps to creating and implementing a Courier Network System (CNS).\u00a0 In the CNS, qualified museum professionals would provide courier services to their local museums and institutions, drastically reducing the carbon footprint and environmental impact of a museum loan. The CNS would substantially fulfill the museum community\u2019s goals towards more sustainable practices with key environmental and economical benefits not only for public institutions but for the private practitioners as well.<br \/>\nTerm for writing survey: <span>June 10- July 30, 2015<\/span><br \/>\nTerm for evaluating survey results: <span>August 1- October 1, 2015<\/span><br \/>\nPlease send a short written statement concerning your interest in the committee and your cv to Sarah Nunberg at <a href=\"mailto:snunberg@aol.com\">snunberg@aol.com<\/a> by <span>June 1, 2015<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AIC National Courier Network System Working Group: The American Institute for Conservation (AIC) National Courier Network System Working Group is seeking three museum professionals to study the role of the courier and to evaluate the feasibility of reducing the carbon footprint of museum loans through reduced courier travel. The working group tasks will be divided &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/2015\/05\/06\/call-for-participants-aic-national-courier-network-system-working-group\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Call for Participants: AIC National Courier Network System Working Group&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":217,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/217"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/resources.culturalheritage.org\/conservators-converse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}