Just a quick note that my husband and I were in Santa Barbara last week and
visited the Mission. Didn't know about your museum.  I am on this listserv
because our daughter is an art history/Italian major but now a film
studies/museum studies graduate student at NYU and she hasn't the time to
read the entries so I try to cull through for her--When we were at the Getty
in LA we bought a book called "Art Lover's Travel Guide to American museums"
(J Swirsky) in the US which lists times, places, etc--like  a directory.
Your museum is not listed, however.  Your summary on loans was informative.
I am a public health nurse so quite far afield but find the information
given so interesting.
I was quite taken with Santa B. There is a retirement place there called
Samarkand. We are East coast people and the location is just too far west.
By the way, my family name is Nelson.
All the best, Ruth N. Knollmueller
-----Original Message-----
From: Beth Nelson <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Thursday, January 13, 2000 9:02 PM
Subject: Re: loan issues


>Thank you to all list members who responded to my query about loan issues.
>We received some very good advice, which we will use when we rewrite our
>collections management policy this year.  To summarize the advice I
>received:
>
>1. I stand corrected on the "donor" and "lender" word choice!
>
>2. We will write a letter to the lender terminating the loan and keep
copies
>of all our correspondence on file.  (The lender has gone through no expense
>for the loan, nor had he publicized it.)  We will also rewrite our loan
form
>to include wording allowing either party to terminate the loan with a
>certain notice.
>
>3. We will memorize Marie C. Malaro's _A Legal Primer on Managing Museum
>Collections_!
>
>4. Few museums accept long-term or indefinite loans.  We stopped accepting
>these types of loans a while ago, but we still have these loans in our
>collection.
>
>5. Our accessions/deaccessions policy mirrors other institutions'.  The
>staff discusses the object, makes recommendations to a curatorial
committee,
>which makes recommendations to the board.
>
>Thank you again for sharing your wisdom.
>
>Beth Nelson
>Assistant Curator and Historian
>Santa Barbara Maritime Museum
>6 Harbor Way #177
>Santa Barbara, CA 93109
>
>Ph: (805) 962-8404 x4
>Fx: (805) 962-7634
>
>E-mail: bnelson @sbmm.org
>
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