Dear Colleagues:
The first issue of "Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives
Professionals" is ready to go to press. This first issue will contain the
following four feature articles as well as other material:
Archives and Museums: Balance and Development in Presidential Libraries
SUSANNAH BENEDETTI, William M. Randall Library, University of North
Carolina at Wilmington
Critical Concepts concerning Non-living Collections
STEPHEN L. WILLIAMS, Department of Museum Studies, Baylor
University, Waco, Texas
Collecting Theories: Mexican American Archives at the University of Texas,
Benson Latin American Collection (1974-2003)
MARIA E. GONZALEZ, Preservation and Conservation Studies,
University of Texas at Austin
The Maverick Collector: The Method in the Madness of Peggy Guggenheim
EMMA ACKER, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Now that this first issue is going to press we are actively seeking more
high quality manuscripts from museum professionals, faculty, and students
for the second number of the journal, which also will appear in 2004. If
you know of appropriate manuscripts, please encourage the authors to submit
them to us. I have placed our call for papers below if you have questions
about material that we would like to receive.
If you are interested in subscribing to this new journal, I have placed
this information below as well. If you have other questions about
"Collections" you can visit our website at
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Sincerely,
Hugh Genoways
Editor
CALL FOR PAPERS
Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archive Professionals welcomes
manuscript submissions for its first issue, to be published in July 2004.
This new journal will be published by AltaMira Press already known as a
publisher of high quality books and other journals on museological topics.
An interdisciplinary journal for museums and archives, Collections will
provide information on handling, preserving, researching, and organizing
collections. Both collection practices and theoretical debates are
welcome. All papers appearing in this journal will receive peer review.
Curators, archivists, conservators, collections managers, preparators,
registrars, educators, students, and others are encouraged to submit their
work. We accept articles of 15-25 manuscript pages, along with 3-6 page
opinion pieces, book reviews, and technical columns. For further
questions, or to submit manuscripts, please contact Hugh Genoways, editor,
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POTENTIAL CONTENTS FOR COLLECTIONS
Philosophy of collecting
Why we collect?
What we collect?
Why we collect what we collect?
How we collect
Philosophical differences among organizations
Archives
Botanical Gardens & Arboreta
Halls of Fame
House Museums
Non-collecting Museums
Specialty Museums
Traditional Collecting Museums
Zoos
Collecting and museum mission
Philosophy of the care of collections
Ethics of collecting and collections care
Collection practices
Best practices
Methods in collection care
Preventive conservation
Conservation
Historic Preservation
New Techniques
New Technology
Data management/Informatics
Access to collections
Uses of collections (including research and preparation for exhibition)
Accessioning
Deaccessioning
Historic practices
Taxidermy for museums
Cost control
Loans
Project management
Policy development and maintenance
IPM
Emergency preparedness
Object identification
Legal issues
Collecting practices
Acceptable methods
Legal issues
Conflict of interest
Unique historical methods
Digitizing
Objects
Records
Uses of images
Copyright
Watermarking
Special collections
Over- and under-sized objects
Odd-shaped objects
Unusually fragile objects
Heavy objects
Dangerous objects (munitions, drugs, poisons)
History of collections
Historically unique collections
Nationally or regionally significant collections
Biographical discussion of important collectors
Historic Architecture
Collection surveys
Surveys of national significance
Surveys of disciplinary significance
Reviews
Books
Websites
Online databases
Digitizing projects
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will find both professional guidance and theoretical grounding, drawn
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About Collections:
Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals is a
new, multi-disciplinary journal for all aspects of handling,
preserving, researching, and organizing collections. Edited by Hugh
Genoways of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Collections will be
both academic and practical. Practitioners will be able to turn to the
journal for the most up-to-date research in collections management.
In its pages, they will find both professional guidance and
theoretical grounding, drawn from fields such as life science, art
history, anthropology, history, conservation, law, museum studies, and
library science.
Two issues of Collections will appear in 2004. In subsequent years,
issues will appear quarterly, in February, May, August, and
November. We are currently accepting submissions for the 2004 volume.
Publication cycle: Feb / May / Aug / Nov
Pages per volume: max. 384, approx. 96 pages per issue
Begins: Volume 1, Number 1, August 2004
For manuscript submissions, please contact Hugh Genoways.
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card.
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Hugh H. Genoways
University of Nebraska State Museum
W436 Nebraska Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, NE 68588-0514
Telephone: 402-472-2012
FAX: 402-472-8949
E-mail: <[log in to unmask]>
Professor
Museum Studies Program
Chair
Museum Studies Program
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Governor Mike Johanns
State of Nebraska
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