Essential Policies and Procedures for Cultural Institutions 

An institution’s collections care and business practices are defined by its written policies and procedures. Institutional memory is often lost through staff changes, but best practices are encoded in these important documents. This program will provide an overview of policy and planning documents that are essential for collections care, such as collections management policies, handling guidelines, and mission statements. Participants will learn the critical components of these documents and be given tangible examples of how to adapt them to different institutions. Policy development, approval, and implementation responsibilities of staff, volunteers, and board will be discussed.

Presenter: Anastasia Matijkiw, Program Manager, DHPSNY

Registration: 9:15 – 9:30 am
Program: 9:30 am – 3:30 pm
Lunch will be provided.

This workshop will be presented in five different locations:

Thursday, March 26 - Closed
Niagara County Historical Society
Niagara County – Lockport, NY
niagarahistory.org

Friday, March 27 - Cancelled
Rakow Research Library, The Corning Museum of Glass
Steuben County – Corning, NY
cmog.org/research/library

Wednesday, April 1 - Cancelled
East Greenbush Community Library
Rensselaer County – East Greenbush, NY
eglibrary.org

Tuesday, April 7
Keene Valley Library
Essex County – Keene Valley, NY
keenevalleylibrary.org

Thursday, April 9
Historic Hudson Valley
Westchester County – Pocantico Hills, NY
hudsonvalley.org

Important Registration Information

• The registration deadline for each workshop is two weeks before the workshop date.
• You must complete a separate registration for each individual attending the workshop.
• A reminder email will be sent one week prior to each workshop date. If you believe you have registered but have not received a reminder, please contact us at info@dhpsny.org to confirm that you are registered.
• If online registration is inconvenient, you may also call us at (215) 545-0613.

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