In response to Todd Ellison's request for information on attaching bar-codes
and "permanent" numbers:

The Registrars Committee has a professional practices sub-committee on
object marking which recently held a full-day workshop on the subject at the
AAM meeting in Atlanta.  We will also be sponsoring a session on bar-codes
and microdots in Los Angeles.  We are also (also) revising Museum
Registration Methods with a truly terrific chapter on object marking by
Terry Segal from the Detroit Institute of Arts.  MRM is due out next spring.
In the meantime, information about object marking (and bar codes) can be
obtained from the chair of the subcommittee, Marianna Munyer, Curator of
Collections, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Historic Sites Division,
1 Old State Capitol, Springfield IL 62701.


Janice Klein
The Field Museum
Chair, RC-AAM
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