Theresa

The best advice I could share would be to contact Beth Merritt at the 
AAM, I took a course with her a couple of years back on developing 
scope statements and it was particularly useful.  In my view a well 
defined scope of collections statement is crucial to developing a 
meaningful collection and clearly articulating its merits to 
stakeholders and audience alike while helping to guide issues of 
collection growth and use.

best wishes

Stephen







At 10:05 AM 05/10/2007, you wrote:

>I have been given the task of forming our scope of collections 
>statement and I
>am here turning to the list for help.  Does anyone have any advice on the
>process or examples they would be willing to share?  We thought we would
>start by coming up with a series of questions that pertains to the museum's
>mission.  Any suggestions?
>
>You can reply to me off-list as well.
>
>Thank you for your guidance.
>
>Theresa Manalo
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