I'm thankful when I'm asked to participate in this process.  I believe I
bring added insight to the redacting table, and it makes my job easier
because I have to find creative ways of factoring in all the yada yada.

I like your "eyeball" theory, Nancy.


At 02:56 PM 02/01/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>I'm coming at this from the curatorial/historian point of view, but I
>believe that the historian must be part of each process of working with
>the script. You do not want to run the risk of someone who is changing a
>sentence or paragraph to make it easier to read also changing historian facts.
>
>At the National Postal Museum, the person curating the exhibit is
>responsible not only for writing the script, but ensuring that it is also
>vetted by outside experts. Our scripts are reviewed for grammar, content,
>flow, etc., by exhibit team members and additional staff members as
>needed. Our theory has always been the more eyeballs on something, the
>better. But the final say has to be with the person who knows the material
>and the director of the museum.
>
>
>
>
>Nancy A. Pope
>Curatorial Office
>National Postal Museum
>Smithsonian Institution
>MRC-570
>Washington, DC 20560-0570
>
>202-633-9381
>202-633-9393 (fax)
>[log in to unmask]
>http://www.si.edu/postal





Joel Ayala, Jr./Exhibit Designer
Museum Division
AZ State Library, Archives & Public Records
1700 West Washington Street
Phoenix AZ 85007-2812
Phone: (602) 542-4405
Fax: (602) 542-4690
E-Mail:  [log in to unmask]
www.lib.az.us

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