To register for a course, simply follow these two steps:
Steps
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 to run. Please be aware that using your credit card will incur transaction fees. These fees are not refundable if you choose to cancel your registration. There are no fees if you pay via checking or savings account. International payments are made via a different Payment Form. Please contact Nicolette Meister if you need to make a payment from outside the U.S.
If you have any questions about billing or payment, please contact the Beloit College Accounting Office at (608) 363-2239.
More Information
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 hopes to offer scholarships for courses in 2023. To be eligible for a scholarship, you must be one of the following:
1. An emerging museum, library, archive, or conservation professional currently enrolled in a graduate program.
2. A volunteer or employee of a small museum, library, archive, or historical society or site that provides public access to its collections. We use the AASLH definition of a small museum: a small museum typically has an annual budget of less than $250,000, operates with a small staff with multiple responsibilities, and employs volunteers to perform key staff functions.
Scholarship information will be posted online as soon as funding is confirmed.
State and regional professional organizations 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.
