The General Facility Report –
A must-have for a collection’s reference library or “I need to know where the nearest fire hydrants are?!”
Originally designed primarily for lending and borrowing, the American Alliance of Museums' General Facility Report is the perfect place to capture all of your institution’s important information -- infrastructure, lending history, storage facilities, and more. If your institution is renovating or retrofitting, it also serves as a guide to architects and contractors to understand your building’s physical specifications.
Whether you use it as a lender to gather information on a borrowing institution, as a place to capture “institutional knowledge,” or an aid to identifying questions about your institution, this document lends itself to be so much more once you get to know it.
Darlene Bialowski, who co-edited iterations of the report from 2008 through to the latest in 2019, will walk us through the report, discuss its evolution, and tell us how the document offers more than meets the eye.
Pre-registration is required and a Zoom link for the meeting will be sent to you closer to the meeting date. Space in the webinar is limited to 100 participants.
For more information about our presenter and to register for the webinar, please click on the image below.
Tuesday, August 18, 2026
A Zoom link to the workshop will be emailed to participants closer to the meeting date.
If you can’t make it to the live event, you can still register for the workshop and we will send you the recording once it becomes available.
The cost of the virtual workshop is as follows:
$15 for anyone who wishes to attend
If you have applied for and been accepted as a Professional Affiliate Member of the CCCA or have made a donation of at least $25 this year as a Friend of the CCCA: $10
If you have applied for and been accepted as an Emerging Professional or Student Member of the CCCA: FREE
You can pay with a credit card without setting up an account. If you need to pay by check please email us at collectionscarealliance@gmail.com
Your workshop fees and additional donations help our growing community of conservation and preservation professionals aid regional cultural heritage organizations in the care and conservation of their collections and materials. As a non-profit corporation registered in the state of Vermont, the CCCA relies on the support of our membership and community to help us develop and promote affordable opportunities for training and networking and to improve the long-term preservation of these vulnerable collections. Thank you!