User talk:NicoleStribs/sandbox

Nicole, it's great that you thought about the facilities manager, as the work they do is directly related to preservation whether people realize it or not. As you note, facilities managers work closely with many staff members of a museum, and have a wide range of responsibilities - building security, environmental systems, accessibility and more. One thing that could be noted more clearly is risk assessment - how they are responsible for identifying building risks and collection risks. At my museum, our facilities manager is also part of the Collections Emergency Response Group, and this could be mentioned in your article that it is important for them to be heavily involved in emergency preparedness planning. Aperegoy (talk) 18:26, 15 February 2017 (UTC) Alexis

Thanks, Alexis! That is a good suggestion. I should add emergency preparedness and disaster response planning. Maybe as a subheading under "Security" NicoleStribs (talk) 02:41, 17 February 2017 (UTC)

There are so many good points in this Wiki Article. From personal experience, I know that Section 1.4 through Section 1.7 along with Section 1.3.1 and Section 1.2.3 are vital to the museum's collections. Having went through the tail end of a renovation at the Speed Art Museum, I know that the Facilities Manager should be included in the construction meeting or at least given the information on various systems like electrical and plumbing. Sometimes, the museum hires a specific construction manager which, in my experiences, were in charge of construction/renovation. With this being said, the museum's facility manager needs to have some sort of knowledge of the HVAC system along with electrical and plumbing in order to better know the technical layout of the museum to quickly help if there's a failure on the HVAC system, electrical system (i.e. if the collection storage rooms are locked by RFID systems), and plumbing (i.e. if there is a water pipe burst in a collection storage room). Lighting and light levels in exhibition areas tend to be controlled by preparators (at the Speed Art Museum and I've seen multiple "lighting technician" postings throughout the country including at the Indianapolis Museum of Art within the past 3 months and at the Corning Museum of Glass). I definitely agree with the rest of the Wiki Article. Davidsclapp (talk) 21:11, 15 February 2017 (UTC)

Thanks, David. Good point about lighting. At my museum I'm also the "lighting technician." Luckily, I can rely on facilities staff to help me with routine maintenance and lamp replacement.