Fill out the Center for Collections Care Registration Form and select your course. Please complete one Registration Form per course. Completing the Registration Form reserves your place in the course. You will only be charged once you complete the Payment Form.
Fill out the Payment Form. Pay the fees associated with your course once your class is confirmed. Please be aware that using your credit card will incur transaction fees. These fees are not refundable if you choose to cancel your registration.
If you have any questions about billing or payment, please contact the Beloit College Accounting Office at (608) 363-2239.
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As a Beloit College summer program, the Center for Collections Care will adhere to Beloit College COVID-19 related decisions and will respond accordingly. In light of COVID-19, the Center for Collections Care Cancellation Policy has been updated. To learn more about the College’s response, please view the COVID-19 Information page.
Participants should not finalize travel arrangement until they receive confirmation that their class has met the minimum enrollment. The Center strongly recommends that participants make refundable travel plans. The Center will not reimburse participants for travel expenses or credit card transaction fees.
If Beloit College cancels a course at any time, participants will receive a full course fee refund.
Participants will receive a full course fee refund if they cancel one-month before the course start date.
Participants who cancel two-weeks before the course start date will receive a full course fee refund, minus a $200 administrative fee.
Email the program director, Nicolette Meister, to cancel your registration: meistern@beloit.edu.
The Center for Collections Care at Beloit College received funding from the William G. Pomeroy Foundation to support scholarships for small history museum professionals outside of Wisconsin. Five full $500 scholarships are available for FUNdamentals of Collections Care in 2021.
To be eligible, you must be employed by or demonstrate sustained volunteer work at a small history museum, historical society, historic site, or historic house outside of Wisconsin. The Center for Collections Care uses the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) definition of a small museum: 1) have an annual budget of less than $250,000; 2) operate with a small staff with multiple responsibilities, and 3) employ volunteers to perform key staff functions.
Scholarships will be awarded based on need. Application deadline is May 31, 2021. A complete application includes the following:
Application letter including the following:
Name, title, and institutional affiliation
Description of why your institution should be considered a small history-based organization
How attending a Center for Collections Care course will benefit your professional development and your institution and what you hope to gain from the opportunity
Current resume
Letter of support from applicant’s immediate supervisor. A board member may write the letter if the applicant is the only employee or volunteer. The letter of support should address the applicant’s need. Need may be based on institutional financial need and/or the applicant’s need for professional development. Letters of support need not be on institutional letterhead (email is fine)
Application materials should be addressed to and emailed to the Nicolette Meister, Faculty Director, Center for Collections Care: meistern@beloit.edu. Applicants will be notified within two weeks of the May 31, 2021 deadline.
State and regional professional organization are often a source of funding for professional development. For example, the Wisconsin Federation of Museums offers “mini-grant awards of up to $750 annually to assist affiliate institutions in the care and exhibit of collections, training of staff, and improving overall service to their communities.”
In addition, with advanced planning, funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grants for Small Institutions can be used for training at the Center for Collections Care at Beloit College.
