On Thu, 28 Jul 1994, Angela Trigg wrote:
 
> I am a new subscriber to this list service. Was wondering if anyone out there
> was also from a small, local history museum?
 
Though I am not from a small history museum myself, my program concerns
itself with cataloguing, standards and automation issues in small
museums. There are about 300 small museums in British Columbai.
 
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> I am currently writing a Collections Manual. We have only about 500 items,
> focusing on farmlife, textiles, schools, community, etc. Am having trouble,
> however, in coming up with a good classification system.>
 
Chenhall, that Richard G suggested is in wide use here, and is a good
basis for your classification system. It only has three levels though,
but does a reasonable job of fitting the whole world in. I will mail you
separately a summary we hand out to our musuems. The complete citation is:
 
Blackaby, James R., Patricia Greeno, and the Nomenclature Committee.
The Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloguing.
A Revised and Expanded Version of
Robert G. Chenhall's System for Classifying Man-Made Objects. American
Association for State and Local History. 1990. 528p.
 
 
 
Cliff Quinn, Dogwood Museum Network Coordinator
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