I also would accession them as either one group or in a few groups of like
documents, which is how I've done some similar groups of documents before.

Beau Harris



On Sun, August 9, 2015 10:54 pm, Kayla Knott wrote:
> Kathleen,
>
>
> I would accession it as a grouping of documents and keep them in folders.
>
>
> Kayla Knott Al Ameri
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>> On Aug 8, 2015, at 10:28 PM, Kathleen Scarlett O'Hara Naylor
>> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>>
>> I've recently begun volunteering at a small local history museum, and
>> am working on accessioning a collection of family papers from a local
>> family. In places I've worked previously, these would have been made
>> part of an archives and accessioned as a collection, not individual
>> documents. Since this museum doesn't have an archival collection, what
>> is the proper way to deal with a collection like this in an object
>> collection? Should each piece of paper be accessioned as an individual
>> object, or are there less cumbersome ways to go about it, such as
>> giving a single ID number to the collection as a whole, or assigning
>> numbers to groups of papers (e.g. 2 dozen receipts from the local
>> market)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Kathleen O'Hara
>>
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