Adrienne:

Because of the need to track use of individual objects (accessioned or not,
you still need to be able to organize and retrieve them), I do recommend that
you label teaching collections.  Use the same kind of labels that you would
for accessioned objects, but change the format a little.  If you typically
write your catalog numbers one way (say 2001.1.1) for your accessioned
objects, change the order of the numbers (1.1.2001) or simply add a prefix
such as TC for the teaching collections.  Just be sure to document your choice
of labeling system so that there is no confusion by anyone at a later date.

Lynn

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D. Lynn Murdoch
Collections Manager
Division of Anthropology
Idaho Museum of Natural History

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Tusculum College Museums wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am working at a small historic house museum which has a permanent
> collection and an educational collection.  We have inventoried,
> accessioned, and cataloged our permanent collection and now are working on
> our education collection.  In the past we have had inventories done that
> list what, where, how many and condition but what we are wondering is how
> do other similar museums handle their education collection-do they just
> inventory it making a simple list of items, or do they assign numbers to
> the items and catalog them like a permanent collection, or something
> different altogether?  Thanks for any help you can offer, Adrienne
> Marrah-Program Assistant for Museum Program and Studies

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