Karen Anderson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>                            ..... I would record "missing" for the
> location of those that can't be found and "deaccessioned" for those
> that have been removed from the collection for whatever reason
> (broken beyond repair, etc.).   ...
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> Karen W. Anderson, Registrar  <[log in to unmask]>
> Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum
> Canyon, Texas
> Phone: 806-656-2966; Fax: 806-656-2250
> Everything I say is IMHO, as I know nothing for certain.
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I used to do that, but our director did not like the blatent designation
"missing", so I was forced to use more circumspect means of irecording and
identifying what we could not readily locate.
This was, to me, a hassle.  I appreciated the politics and diplomatic aspects
of what the director was saying, but from a pragmatic collections management
point of view, needed a quick and easy means of listing what was currently lost
or missing.

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