Rebecca Fifield

Becky Fifield has been building the Collection Management program in Preservation and Collections Processing since its inception in 2016. The Associate Director for Collection Management (ADCM) provides strategic and administrative leadership for Collection Management. The ADCM provides vision, develops and manages programs and staff, identifies needs and seeks resources, and advocates for the needs of the Research Libraries collections to internal and external partners.

Becky Fifield is Associate Director, Collection Management at The New York Public Library. Beginning her cultural heritage career in 1988, she has provided collection management expertise to libraries and museums for over 30 years experience including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 
Becky holds an M.A. in Museum Studies from The George Washington University, where she was a National Endowment for the Humanities Collection Care Administrator Training Program Fellow and student of Carolyn Rose and Catharine Hawks.  Becky has written critical, scholarly, and popular pieces on emergency management, collection care, and collection management professional issues for A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals, Collection Forum, Museum Management and Curatorship,  American Institute for Conservation Textile Specialty Group Postprints, The Readex Report blog, the Winterthur Unreserved blog, and was a contributor to Collection Storage: Preventive Conservation Approaches and Help! An Emergency Preparedness Manual for Museums, 2nd Edition. Interested in how collaboration between fields improves preservation outcomes, Becky has led and collaborated on the development of AIC workshops on reading architectural drawings, centering value in how we promote collection care, and using influence strategies in collection care. She has lectured widely on  emergency preparedness and collection management topics for the American Institute for Conservation, the American Alliance of Museums, the Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists, the Association for Preservation Technology International, the NYC Office of Emergency Management, the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York University, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, and MuseumStudy.com. One of the first non-conservators to be awarded Fellow status within the American Institute of Conservation, Becky is former Chair and founding member of the AIC’s Collection Care Network, a former AIC Emergency Committee member, and continues to serve AIC as member of the Member Designation Working Group Rubric Sub-group. She is a Principal Member of the National Fire Protection Association’s Cultural Resource Technical Committee (NFPA 909), a former Advisory Council member of the Association of Registrars and Collection Specialists, and a former Chair of Alliance for Response NYC.