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The Connecting to Collections Care Online Community helps smaller cultural institutions to provide well-informed care for valuable collections. Search this website for preservation and conservation information, links to resources, access to recorded webinars and online discussions. All content in this Community, with the exception of special courses, is provided for FREE. This site is managed by the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation of Artistic and Historic Works with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and donations from Community members and friends.

Check out our past webinars

Wireless Environmental Monitoring: Is it right for you?
December 8, 2016
Beyond “No Food or Drink in the Gallery”: Food Management Strategies for the Real World
November 3, 2016
Caring for Archives: Fundamentals for Everyone
October 20, 2016
Management 101: Getting a Grip on Collections Management – Credly Badge
October 6, 2016
A Place for Everything and Everything in Its Place: Conducting (and Maintaining!) a Collection Inventory
October 4, 2016
There’s a Form for That: Documenting Your Collections
September 29, 2016
Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections: A Survival Guide for Messes Great and Small
September 20, 2016
Basic Condition Reporting
September 15, 2016
Hibernation – Not Just for Bears: Putting your house museum “to bed” for the season
August 30, 2016
All Aboard: Engineering Collections Care Training for Small Museums
August 23, 2016
Seeding Engagement and Cultivating Volunteers through Crowdsourcing
July 7, 2016
Lock, Stock and Barrel: Firearms Collecting for Museums
June 15, 2016
Arsenic and Old Lace: Controlling Hazardous Collection Materials
May 4, 2016
Much Ado About Mannequins: Making the Perfect Form
April 14, 2016
Caring for Artifacts Found in Archives Collections
April 6, 2016
Notes From the Home Front: Care & Handling of Heirloom Textile Collections
February 26, 2016
Reframing the Problem: Caring for Framed Objects in Small Institutions (aka: On a Budget)
February 9, 2016
A Conservation Primer: Caring for Historic Furniture
January 15, 2016
Seasonal Affective Disorder: Caring for Collections During Seasonal Special Events
December 3, 2015
The Deaccessioning Dilemma: Laws, Ethics, and Actions
November 19, 2015
Marking and Labeling Collections
October 27, 2015
Insurance 101: Practical Considerations for Protecting Institutional Collections and Loans
October 9, 2015
Troublesome Trophies and Fragile Feathered Friends: Introduction to the Care of Historic Taxidermy
September 4, 2015
RE-ORG: Step-by-step Storage Reorganization for Small Museums
August 5, 2015
Facebook, and Twitter, and Instagram, oh my! Sharing museum collections through social media
July 11, 2015
Preservation Metrics Today: Heritage Health Information and Preservation Statistics
June 12, 2015
Caring for Audiovisual Material
June 2, 2015
Outreach Activities for Collections Care
June 2, 2015
After Disasters: Salvage and Recovery in Small to Mid-Sized Museums and Libraries
May 1, 2015
When Less is All You Got!
April 8, 2015
Simplifying Preservation Planning Using Worksheets
March 6, 2015
Changes Afoot: Connecting to Collections Becoming Connecting to Collections Care
March 4, 2015
Dealing with Digital Assets
November 6, 2014
Collection Assessment and Preservation
October 28, 2014
Stressed About Pests? Treating Infestations
August 21, 2014
Stressed About Pests? Prevention, Monitoring, & Identification
August 14, 2014
Caring for Books
July 10, 2014
Storage Solutions
June 5, 2014
The Supercharged Management System
March 27, 2014
Featured Member: Ben Gessner from the Minnesota Historical Society
March 26, 2014
Digital Collections: A Future for Small Museums
March 19, 2014
Learn More About the Conservation Assessment Program
December 4, 2013
Promoting Preservation: Utilizing New Media
November 8, 2013
Essential Elements of a Collections Management Policy
August 15, 2013
The Care of Leather and Fur
August 5, 2013
The Thomas Wolfe Memorial 15 Years Later
July 8, 2013
WebWise Reprise Part Two: Using Collections Images in Educational Materials
June 6, 2013
Exercising Your Disaster Response Plan
June 4, 2013
WebWise Reprise Part One: Using Collections Images in Online Exhibits
June 4, 2013
Caring for Photographs
May 23, 2013
Accepting a Credential from Credly
April 30, 2013
Involving the Public in Your Preservation Efforts
April 17, 2013
Caring for Digital Materials: Preventing a Digital Dark Age
April 15, 2013
Mounting Garments for Display
March 21, 2013
Protecting Your Collections: Writing a Disaster Response Plan
March 14, 2013
Object Handling Basics
February 28, 2013
Risk Evaluation: First Step in Disaster Planning
February 14, 2013
Mold!
February 11, 2013
Creative Solutions for Collections Care
January 30, 2013
Collections Care Basics: Where Do I Begin?
January 23, 2013
Protecting Collections During Special Events
December 12, 2012
Fundraising for Collections Care
December 11, 2012
Hurricane Sandy Collections Recovery
November 20, 2012
Museums for America Grants from IMLS: An Overview of the Program
November 7, 2012
Tour of the Canadian Conservation Institute’s Online Light Damage Calculator
October 11, 2012
Why do Old Books Smell and Other Adventures with Odors in Collections
September 26, 2012
Adopt-an-Object
September 6, 2012
Wireless Dataloggers
July 17, 2012
WebWise Reprise: Oral History in the Digital Age
June 29, 2012
Sharing Public History Work: Crowdsourcing Data
June 18, 2012
Care of Plastics
June 14, 2012
Collections Care and Conservation: How to submit an Art Works grant to the National Endowment for the Arts
June 11, 2012
Security for Collections: Preventing Loss and Planning for Any Budget
May 24, 2012
Selecting a Conservator
May 9, 2012
MayDay! Create a Game Plan
April 18, 2012
Outsourcing Digitization
April 5, 2012
Introduction to LED Lighting
March 29, 2012
Applying to NEH’s Preservation Assistance Grants
March 14, 2012
Choosing the Datalogger That Is Right for You
March 8, 2012
Making the Most of the Storage You Have
February 28, 2012
Objects on the Move! Packing and Transporting Collections
February 9, 2012
Care of Dolls
December 20, 2011
Flag Rolling and Storage
November 10, 2011
Care and Preservation of Historic Motorized Vehicles
October 27, 2011
Live Question and Answer Session on Housekeeping for Historic Sites
October 13, 2011
Handling and Exhibition of Potentially Hazardous Artifacts in Museum Collections
September 21, 2011
Live Question and Answer Session on How Cultural Institutions Can Work with Emergency Responders for Preparedness and Response
September 8, 2011
Live Question and Answer Session on Storage and Handling of Textiles
August 18, 2011
Taking Preservation to the Fair!
August 9, 2011
Live Question and Answer Session on Cold Storage for Photographic Materials
August 2, 2011
Featured Resource–Photo Cold Storage
July 27, 2011
Identifying Museum Insect Pest Damage and Addressing it with Integrated Pest Management
July 20, 2011
Care of Metal Objects
June 23, 2011
Care of Video Tape
June 18, 2011
Care of Paper, Photographs, and Audiovisual Collections
February 21, 2011
Public Outreach and Collections Care
February 21, 2011
Funding for Collections Care
February 21, 2011
Using Social Media to tell Your Collections’ Stories
February 21, 2011
Telling the Story of Your Collections to the Press
February 21, 2011

Upcoming Events (All times in Eastern Time – New York, NY)

February 27, 2019, 2:00 pm – When Copyright and Cultural Collections Converge
March 12, 2019, 2:00 pm – Planning for Natural Disaster Damage in Botanical Collections

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