Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 4, Number 9, 1 September 1987 — Museum Issues Call for Eight Volunteers [ARTICLE]

Museum Issues Call for Eight Volunteers

Eight dedicated volunteers are needed by the Bishop Museum to assist in a 15-month project in its department of anthropology. The project involves surveying some 200,000 artifacts to determine the condition of eaeh pieee and how best to move them into a new building whieh is expected to be completed in about two years.

Volunteers will receive 75 hours of training in eolleetions management, including techniques for handling the artifacts, ways to recognize and minimize environmental effects and a working knowledge of the eolleetion file system. Interested people are asked to eall Sheila Cyboron, volunteer coordinator, at 848-4180.