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Museum Management & Conservation Resources 

Washington Museums Association - of particular interest are the Law Notes
Washington State Library provides online handouts of preservation of documents and books
Conservation OnLine
Library of Congress Preservation Information
Conservation & Preservation of printed materials by Washington State University's Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections Departments
MUSEUM-L a Listserv for questions and communication with other museum professionals exchanging ideas and helping with current museum and conservation problems and issues.  You can search the archives or sign up to contribute or ask questions.
MuseDocs - A Yahoo group - A repository for documentation and other templates to be stored and shared between museums staff, volunteer or otherwise.  You have to sign up but if you are looking for info often, it is worth it.
Northern States Conservation Center - online distance learning for collection care
SOLINET  the Southeastern Library Network, Inc. — is a not-for-profit library cooperative serving the Southeastern United States.  A membership network of libraries and other information organizations - offers Online conservation and exhibit classes such as "Caring for Scrapbooks"  and some others are useful
American Association of Museums (AAM)
National Institute for Conservation, Washington D. C.
Regional Alliance for Preservation West coast members are possible sources for conservation and emergency projects from the closest West Coast Member Western States & Territories Preservation Assistance Service
U. S. National Park Service Museum Management Program and its Conserv-o-Grams
American Association for State and Local History
Northeast Document Conservation Center This year's conference is in Seattle
Museummarket.com Museum Market is a portal for museum information, focused on news useful to museum professionals and visitors. On this site you will find listings for museum job descriptions, associations and service providers or vendors for our museum and cultural organizations.
Collections Care from the UK perspective

Commercial Archival Supplies Companies for price comparisons.

Listing here is not an endorsement.  We have found that prices, quality and shipping costs vary widely.  Sometimes there are sale prices and special discounts on shipping.  Also sometimes archival companies are not the cheapest sources for common materials, feel free share or write for information of other's experience.

Light Impressions California
Metal Edge California
Archival Methods New York
University Products also known as Archivalsuppliers.com Massachusetts
Hollinger Corporation Virginia
Custom Manufacturing Inc. (CMI) Archivalboxes.com  --  New York
Talas New York
Highsmith  Wisconsin
Demco Wisconsin
Gaylord New York
 

Grants and Fundraising Assistance

Pacific Northwest Grantmaker's Forum
Nonprofit-info.org/
Washington Commission for the Humanities
Institute of Museum & Library Services for the federal perspective of grant funding programs plus informational monthly email newsletter on museum and library issues (especially new technological developments.)
Grantsmanship Center
Foundation Center
Grantsmart.com
Access Washington (Washington State Goverment Offices and Information - contains miscellaneous links government resources eg. Sec. of State for non-profit corporation information, state archives, RCW & WAC for historic preservation laws, etc.)