Collections Warriors Coalition

After the inaugural year of Collections Warriors Coalition Day in 2019, SICCA is proud to offer this wonderful ONE-DAY program again in 2020. This program not only creates a platform for institutional collaborations but also facilitates peer learning.

SICCA’s Collections Warriors Coalition is made up of volunteers who has an interest in collections care. This group is mobilized annually to aid a fellow member’s institution on specific, collections-related projects for ONE DAY. Volunteers can seek the opportunity to sharpen and further their collections management skills while participating in a good cause.

The Beneficiary for 2020 is the Wabash County Museum in Mt. Carmel, Illinois. CWC Day postponed due to COVID

"The jewels of our collection will no longer be shrouded in mystery or confusion. We now have some organization to not only the appearance of our collection, but now we can begin to categorize the artifacts we collect."

Testimonial from Dr. Ashley Jordan, Executive Director of the Evansville African American Museum & Recipient of the 2019 Collections Warriors Coalition Day

2019 Collections Warriors at the Evansville African American Museum

Important Dates

November 4, 2019 Application Opens for Submission

February 28, 2020 Application Submission Deadline

March 23, 2020 Announcement of Beneficiary

July 1, 2020 Volunteer Sign Up Begins

August 31, 2020 Collections Warriors Coalition Day

2019 Collections Warriors Coalition Day - Archival supplies sponsored by Hollinger

How to Become a Volunteer

Anyone is welcome to join the Collections Warriors Coalition. However, in order to provide a good working and learning environment for all the volunteers, only a maximum of 10 volunteers will be accepted. Volunteers will be accepted on a first come, first serve basis.

Lunch will be provided by the Beneficiary. Transportation is the responsibility of the volunteer.

Volunteers sign-up will begin July 1, 2020.

Apply to Become an Institution to Receives Aid

In order to be considered an institution that receives aid (Beneficiary) from SICCA’s Collections Warriors Coalition, the organization must satisfies and agrees to all of the following conditions.

Be a Member of SICCA (free to join)
Complete a simple application
Be able to provide necessary equipment and/ or archival supplies (attempts will be made by SICCA to seek archival supplies donation)
Be able to provide light morning refreshments and complimentary lunch to the volunteers
At least one representative of the institution must be present and assist at the event. Preferably one institution's representative stations at each proposed project
Must participate in a site visit with the President of SICCA upon acceptance as Beneficiary
Understands that adjustments may be made to the proposed projects by the Juror and/or President of SICCA in order to achieve the maximum effect given the limited time available
Beneficiary must recognize SICCA and the Collections Warriors Coalition in manner of social media and/or other institutional publication upon projects completion
Must provide a testimonial to the overall experience and how the Collections Warriors Coalition helped the Beneficiary. Testimonial will be shared to the public by SICCA via website and/ or in other manners.

Juror

Jennifer Noffze is the Collections Manager at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis. She has a MA in Museum Studies from Johns Hopkins University and has served on the boards of the Association of Indiana Museums, the Society of Indiana Archivists and the Midwest Registrars Committee. Jennifer has spearheaded multiple digitization projects at the museum during her 18 year tenure, including serving as the Project Director for the Ryan White Letters Transcription Project, creating the museum’s Tumblr blog, and working on the Wikipedia GLAM project. Jennifer has served as a Peer Reviewer for the IMLS and the Indiana Arts Commission.