Member Benefits
Membership Benefits
Join a community that elevates your professional journey. All members enjoy benefits designed to help you connect, grow, and lead within the profession.
CONNECT > Networking & Mentorship
- Gain immediate access to a dedicated network of professional archivists via our active discussion platform for reliable answers to time-sensitive queries.
- Support your professional needs with expert research guidance to efficiently locate historical collections of religious communities, ministries, and individual members.
- Receive practical guidance on archives projects like digitization, cataloging, and initiating an archival collection, from established experts.
GROW > Professional Development
- Access exclusive webinars, workshops, and conferences with a focus on topics unique to archivists and researchers working with women religious collections.
- Keep current on archival standards, advances, and ethics to gain a deeper understanding of how these impact women religious archives and improve the quality of research conducted in these repositories.
- Receive timely notifications of new positions and research opportunities before they are posted on broad aggregation sites.
LEAD > Leadership & Governance
- Build a professional network while preserving the vital legacy of women religious for the future. Archives work can be isolating, but our challenges are shared.
- Enhance your professional skillset serving on an ACWR committee to gain valuable leadership experience, elevate our organization's offerings, and connect with peers.
- Direct ACWR's future by serving on the ACWR Board. All Board members receive voting privileges, giving you a strong voice in shaping the organization's direction.
Annual Membership Fees
Select a membership below and join ACWR today with an online payment.
ACWR Membership Year: July 1st – June 30th*
Regular Membership
$60
Individuals whose primary ministry is the furtherance of archival and historical services to women religious as well as persons who supportive of ACWR goals & objectives.
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Reduced Membership
$40
Students, first-year professionals, first-time ACWR members, or Archives-adjacent professionals, such as leaders and scholars.
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Emerita Membership
$25
Archivists and leaders enjoying professional retirement.
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Institutional Membership
$150
A single organization with up to five (5) individual members, including archivists, leadership, communicators, paraprofessionals, or volunteers.
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* Membership is based on ACWR’s fiscal year and is not prorated for those who join mid-year.
If you prefer to register through mail, you may download the form and mail a payment check to:
ACWR National Office
5900 Delhi Road, Mt. St. Joseph, OH 45051
Regional Map
See where in the world ACWR members are located with this interactive map created from ACWR’s Guide to Women Religious Repositories. Included are each organization’s website and information about the future disposition of the collection at a collaborative repository (if applicable).
If your organization would like to be represented on this map, please contact the Executive Secretary.
