Well, if this isn't too funny!!  We've come full circle!!  This is the very
situation that prompted me to write about the lightbulb in the first place--it
was found in the collection without a number or any paperwork!!  Now
who do we get to blame for it all?  :-)

Chris.

>>> <[log in to unmask]> 02/14/98 04:46pm >>>
Let us not throw the wrong light on curators; it is far more likely the
light bulb will end up IN the collection (sans accession number and
paperwork, perhaps) than taken OUT - some of them would even
provide
detailed descriptions and histories (and by the way, what a terrific one
from the professor!).

Tim
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E. Moore wrote:
>
> > From: H. Taves <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: speaking of light bulbs
> > Date: Thursday, February 12, 1998 11:53 PM
> >
> > It takes two curators to change a light bulb:  one to deaccession the
> > old bulb and one to install the new one in an acid-free socket.
>
> no, no...that would be conservators.  It would take three curators.  One
to
> change the bulb, one to distract the conservator so he/she wouldn't
see
> that the socket wasn't archivally stable, and one to secret away the
old
> bulb so the registrar couldn't see that an object was being removed
without
> all of the requisite deaccessioning paperwork.