Caroline Davies Posynick

Current

Program Coordinator for the Cultural Resource Managmeent Program at University of Victoria
Museum & Heritage Consultant at Victoria, BC

Connections

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Industry

Museums and Institutions

Caroline Davies Posynick’s Summary

My goal is to manage collections, large or small, whether in a museum, heritage site, a municipality or any other public or private entity. I am able to work on a contract basis and I am willing to travel. I am also interested in permanent positions within the Victoria area.

Education
Masters in Museum Studies, Collections Management

Experience

Collections Management
• initiated and managed inventories of collections
• created policies and carried out procedures for gifts presented to and photographs taken of high-ranking officials
• managed paperwork for exhibitions – loan forms and lists
• worked with database software to manage information on collections
• identified objects requiring conservation

Project Management
• co-coordinated a historic building rehabilitation project
• provided briefing notes for officials on heritage projects
• organized an archive collection

Interpretation
• researched collections
• researched and wrote text for interpretive panels
• created & installed permanent and temporary displays

Public Programming
• drafted a tour guide manual
• trained and supervised student and volunteer assistants
• managed and trained volunteers working with archival material
• obtained written permission letters to use historic images in a museum exhibition curriculum guide

Caroline Davies Posynick’s Specialties:

I love collections - and to organize them. Specific to museum and other public collections, I set policies and procedures that help manage intellectual properties associated with the material, as well as physically care for the objects in the collection.

Caroline Davies Posynick’s Experience

Program Coordinator for the Cultural Resource Managmeent Program

University of Victoria

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

August 2009 — Present (5 months)

Along with being a museum consultant, I am also Program Coordinator for the on-campus offerings in the Cultural Resource Management Programs at the University of Victoria. I am responsible for organizing the students and instructors for museum studies and heritage management classes. These classes can be put toward a professional diploma program, a specialist certificate in collections management or heritage preservation, or they may be audited for professional development purposes.
Museum & Heritage Consultant

Victoria, BC

(Design industry)

April 2009 — Present (9 months)

I am a museum and heritage consultant based out of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. I specialize in museum collections management issues, policies and procedures. I am also knowledgeable in building restoration and rehabilitation using Parks Canada's Standards and Guidelines for Historic Sites. I am willing to travel.

My current project is working at the North Vancouver Museum and Archives, doing a collections audit. I am reworking the collections policy and making recommendations for tightening up the procedures and forms used to carry out the management of their museum and archives collections.

Additional Information

Caroline Davies Posynick’s Groups:

Archives Association of British Columbia,
Heritage BC,
Canadian Museums Association,
British Columbia Museums Association,
Collections Special Interest Group of the British Columbia Museum Association