I sent a private email to the original poster.

I have worked in all three fields - libraries, archives and museums. I have watched others without education in museums move from library to museum with mixed results. Quite honestly, the work I did related to museums before I undertook course work would have been done differently afterward. You really need to recognize the differences as well as the similarities to do this transition successfully.

  I am somewhat curious about the "fit" with registration that Candace Perry expressed in a previous post.  In my position as registrar I am more narrowly responsible for collection care than I have been in my other positions - and I see the rudimentary elements of registration paralleling library cataloging.  Nomenclature certainly parallels LC or Dewey classification; all items, like all books are assigned an accession number and cataloged -- and there the similarity ends. As those of us in registration know, there's a heck of a lot more to registration.
Recently I've watched a number of people with government, business, non-profit and library experience move into museum management/director positions.  It didn't look very pretty very often.


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