Over 50 organizations have requested
a
Circuit Rider site visit -
Have you requested yours yet?
Sign Up for a Face-to-Face Assessment of
Your Site! The Circuit Rider program is currently being offered through the
Connecting to New York's Collections administered by Greater Hudson Heritage
Network (GHHN), which is funded through a generous 'Connecting to Collections'
Implementation Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
through the Fall of 2014.
What is a Circuit Rider? Historically, the term
referred to the clergy in the earliest years of the United States who were
assigned to travel around specific geographic territories to minister to
settlers and organize congregations. Our "Circuit Riders" are a team
of statewide independent trained professionals in the field of collection
management and conservation who will come to you!
How
does the CR program benefit my Institution?
The
Circuit Rider program is tailored to meet the needs of individual sites and
offers an opportunity for site staff and board members to meet personally with
the Circuit Rider in an informal, supportive, and consultative setting. Circuit
Riders help small collecting institutions develop preliminary strategies for
improving collections care by identifying and prioritizing actions you can
practicably take to implement improvements. The program will also help provide
templates and identify resources you can use to draft basic collections
policies, forms, and procedures for adoption and implementation. Information
obtained from the Circuit Rider visit may be used as support materials for the
American Association of Museum's Collections Stewardship Assessment Program
(CSMAP), GHHN's Conservation Treatment Grant, the Heritage
Preservation's Conservation Assessment Program (CAP), and the Museum Assessment
Program (CAP).
How does it work? Contact GHHN to
request a site visit. The Circuit Rider will come to your organization for a
half-day site visit focusing on a topic that is determined in advance. The site
visits are available to historic house museums, historic sites, historical
societies, libraries, and archives - any site that has collections. Circuit Riders
will discuss various areas of stewardship with you, help identify your specific
collections issues, suggest and prioritize basic steps to improve care of your
collections, review your existing documents and forms, provide you with
templates, and suggest site-specific resources. You can request multiple site
visits as long as each visit is on a different collection issue. Best of all,
the program is completely FREE to participants until October 2014.
Sign
up today -- It's FREE!
Interested?
Apply here: http://www.c2cnys.org/circuit-rider-program.html
or contact us at
914.592.6726 or at director@greaterhudson.org
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