Collections Care Training Program at the Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies

FAIN: PE-50093-13

Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies (Mount Carroll, IL 61053-1361)
Sharon Welton (Project Director: July 2012 to May 2014)
Matthew Toland (Project Director: May 2014 to August 2015)

Collections care training for staff from heritage institutions, particularly museums, libraries, and archives, to acquire essential skills for the care of humanities collections.

The Campbell Center for Historic Preservation Studies requests $200,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to support collections care training for museum, library, and archive personnel to develop and build the essential skills and knowledge required to care for and provide access to humanities collections. The Campbell Center's national collections care training program will: (1) address the nationally documented need for training by providing collections care training to approximately 250 individuals from approximately 100 cultural institutions from across the nation each year; (2) provide much needed financial assistance to participants to subsidize training; (3) sustain and expand on- and off-site collaborative partnerships; and (4) maintain excellence in collections care training through its curriculum, instructors, and facilities.