At the Shell History Museum, many of the Board members and plenty of current
employees collect Shell memorabilia. We do not see this as a conflict;
rather it is simply people we know collecting rather someone we don't know.
Many of these people have some and a few have all their collection on loan
to our Museum. If it is something worthwhile enough to be in your Museum,
there are going to be people collecting it. We figure it might as well be
someone you know.

>       J.D. Slaton
>       President, Shell Wood River History Museum
>       Try the Museum Homepage at:
>         http://www.shellhistorymuseum.org
>       Wood River Refining Company, Equilon Enterprises, LLC
>       618-255-3716
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> From:         Robin Le Van[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent:         Wednesday, April 07, 1999 11:23 AM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      Re: Staff Collecting
>
> Interesting question. My colleague, who is with our historical society,
> abides by a policy of each item purchased by staff, which could relate to
> the institutional collection, first be offered to the curator of that
> division. Clearly, this is a honor policy, subject to individual ethics.
> He
> seems to feel it works well at his institution.
> Good luck!
> Robin
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Museum discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On
> Behalf Of Anne Lane
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 9:39 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Staff Collecting
>
>
> We are in the process of revamping our collections policy, and one of the
> areas we would like to deal with more comprehensively is that of personal
> collecting by staff.  We are, of course, particularly concerned with
> situations where staff members collect actively in areas where the museum
> also collects; in our case, our collecting scope is broad enough that it
> is
> proving rather difficult to set realistic parameters.  We would appreciate
> hearing from other institutions both what their published policies are and
> what, if any, difficulties have arisen with implementation of these
> policies.  It is one thing to subscribe to a general code of ethics; it is
> quite another to try to determine whether the piece of contemporary
> pottery
> purchased from a local artisan for mixing bread dough has to be offered to
> the institution's collections committee before being pressed into use.
> Help!
> Anne T. Lane
> Curatorial Assistant
> Museum of York County
> 4621 Mount Gallant Road
> Rock Hill, SC 29715
> 803-329-2121, ext 104
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