About

About Connecting to Collections Care

Connecting to Collections Care is committed to serving small and mid-sized cultural institutions and helping staff and volunteers at those institutions care for their collections in the best way possible.

Connecting to Collections Care Advisory Group

• Megan Narvey, Chair
  Outreach Conservator, Minnesota Historical Society, St. Paul, Minnesota
• Madeline Cooper, Vice Chair
  Preventive Conservator, MC Conservation
• Donia Conn
  Associate Professor of Practice, Simmons University School of Library and Information Science
• Catherine Cooper
  Project Manager, Minnesota Historical Society
• Linda Endersby
  Faculty Lecturer, University of Oklahoma
• Sean Harrison
  Senior Collections Manager, City of Austin
• Stephanie Hornbeck
  National Preservation Program Officer, Preservation Programs, National Archives and Records Administration
• Kate Jacus
  Preservation Specialist, Documentary Heritage and Preservation Services for New York, Conservation Center for Art & Historic Artifacts
• Melissa King
  Conservation Liaison, Conserv
• Joelle Wickens
  Assistant Professor, Department of Art Conservation, University of Delaware

Program Administrators

• C2C Care Coordinator
• Tiffani Emig, FAIC staff liaison
  Deputy Director, AIC and FAIC, Washington, DC
• Katelin Lee, FAIC staff liaison
  Outreach Manager, AIC and FAIC, Washington, DC

Monitors volunteer in two-week increments to review and respond to posts in the online community, reaching out to expert volunteers as needed for additional advice.

Al Carver-Kubik | Maddie Cooper | Saira Haqqi | Jen Hunt | Victoria Kablys-Nielsen | Jiani (Kelly) Liu | Sky-Lyn Munoz| Liz Peirce| Rebecca Smyrl | Elizabeth Stone | Nemi Velez

Experts volunteer on an on-call basis to provide professional expertise to monitors as they respond to community posts.

Amy Sullivan | Andrea Chevalier | Deborah Trupin | Donia Conn | Doug Sanders | Dyani Feige| Gawain Weaver | Ingrid Neuman | Jennifer Hain Teper | Katherine Ridgway | Kerith Schrager | Laura McCann | Lorraine Schnabel | Margaret (Meg) Geiss-Mooney | Paul Himmelstein | Priscilla Anderson | Rachael Arenstein | Rebecca Elder| Richard L Kerschner | Shannon Zachary | Toni Kiser | Wendy Jessup

The Foundation for Advancement in Conservation has been administering Connecting to Collections Care (C2C Care) since December 2014. Program advancement has been made possible in part by grant support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

This community began in 2010 as Connecting to Collections Online Community, a part of the Institute of Museum and Library Services‘ (IMLS) national initiative Connecting to Collections (C2C). Initially, this Online Community was moderated by Heritage Preservation in cooperation with the American Association for State and Local History and with support form the IMLS.