Author: Sarah Norris

May 17, 2017, 2:00 – 3:30 EDT Legal Issues in Collections Management with ARCS

Why do we need this? Insights and Hindsights from Deaccessioning

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Join Leslie B. Jones to discuss the multiple steps, and back-steps, of deaccessioning a diverse selection of objects from a collection using the experience of the 2014 to 2017 Cheekwood Permanent Collection deaccession initiative. Topics covered include assessing previous institutional deaccessions, board review and approval, collecting plan development, cross-reference of digital and hard files, institutional transfers, ethnographic materials and indigenous organizations, and donor relations.

May 23, 2017, 2:00 – 3:30 EDT

Inside Out: The Inside Scoop on Your Outdoor Sculpture

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Are you responsible for carrying out the preservation of outdoor sculpture at your institution or business? Join Joanie Bottkol, Karen Fix, and Margaret Breuker, conservators with the National Park Service, for a webinar about the maintenance of outdoor sculpture: the whys and wherefores, what you can do on your own, and when you might need outside help.

Connecting to Collections Care is pleased to offer a special series of webinars on Legal Issues in Collections Management.  For this series, C2CC partners with ARCS, the Association for Registrars and Collections Specialists. Join us!

April 12, 2017 Introduction to Legal Issues in Collections Management with John E. Simmons

April 19, 2017 Ethical Issues in Collections Management with Sally Yerkovich

May 17, 2017 Why Do We Need This? Insights and Hindsights from Deaccessioning with Leslie B. Jones

All webinars are scheduled from 2:00 – 3:00 EDT and they are free. Check our website to sign-up: www.connectingtocollections.org. We hope to see you there.

Do you have maps and other very large archives materials that you don’t know how to handle and store? Join us for Oversize, Overwhelmed? Caring for Maps and Architectural Drawings in Your Collection March 16th, 2:00 – 3:30 EDT. It’s free!

Oversize, overwhelmed? Caring for Maps and Architectural Drawings in Your Collection

Join Connecting to Collections Care next week for our next webinar, Practical Solutions: Quilt Care and Display, with Camille Breeze, Director and Chief Conservator for Museum Textile Services in Andover, Massachusetts. February 16, 2017, 2:00 – 3:30 EST. As usual, the webinar is free.  http://www.connectingtocollections.org/quilt-care-and-display/ 

The Connecting to Collections Care Online Community is a program of the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation (FAIC). We offer professional development opportunities, resources, and assistance to help smaller cultural institutions to provide well-informed care for their collections. All content in this Community is provided at no cost thanks to generous funding by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

On January 26, 2017, 2:00 – 3:30 EST, C2C Care offers a free webinar about using the online tool: www.filmcare.org. You can learn more about this webinar, Preserving Film Collections for the Future: A Web Application and sign up at http://www.connectingtocollections.org/preserving-film-collections/

The Connecting to Collections Care Online Community is a program of the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation (FAIC). We offer professional development opportunities, resources, and assistance to help smaller cultural institutions to provide well-informed care for their collections. All content in this Community is provided at no cost thanks to generous funding by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

Join us, Thursday, December 8, 2:00 – 3:30 EST, for a webinar on Wireless Environmental Monitoring.  It’s free!   http://www.connectingtocollections.org/wireless-environmental-monitoring/
 
 

Join us next week for a Connecting to Collections Care webinar, Caring for Archives: Fundamentals for Everyone, with Fletcher Durant. Thursday, October 20, 2016, 2:00 – 3:30 EDT. It’s free!
Does your institution have an archive? Is it maintained for research, exhibitions, or just the records and papers that mark the history of your institution? How do you care for your archives? Or, don’t you? Whether your archives are carefully curated or simply grew over the years, what is the best approach to preserving those important materials and how does their preservation differ from other collections that you have under your care?
This webinar will cover the basics of archives preservation within a framework of risk management. Some issues discussed will be familiar to other areas of collection care, while others will speak to the particularities of archival collections. Topics will include: storage environments, housings, care and handling, collection surveys, security, integrated pest management, disaster planning, and digital preservation.
http://www.connectingtocollections.org/caring-for-archives/

Connecting to Collections Care offers two webinars at the end of this month. As usual, they are free!
August 24, 2016, 2:00 – 3:30 EDT, All Aboard: Engineering Collections Care Training for Small Museums http://www.connectingtocollections.org/all-aboard-engineering-collections-care-training-for-small-museums/
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A special joint webinar with the New England Museum Association – part of their Lunch with NEMA program, August 31, 2016, 12:00 – 1:00 EDT, Hibernation – Not Just for Bears: Putting your house museum “to bed” for the season http://www.connectingtocollections.org/hibernation-not-just-for-bears-putting-your-house-museum-to-bed-for-the-season/