How about a good Collections Manual? Our county history museum is stuggling
to put together a collections manual. With all the wonderful museums out
there there must be a basic model to work from or do we really need to
reinvent the wheel?

Karen Berget
Stevens County Historical Society
116 West 6th St
Morris, MN 56267
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>In terms of textbooks for collections management...  IMHO, there
>aren't any good, comprehensive and up-to-date ones.  I make my
>students read a vast amount ftom a wide range of sources (including
>the law library) for the graduate level CM course I teach at the UofToronto.
>
>I am making them read more and more from material published on the
>WWW.  Two "texts" that we are using is the Museum Documentation
>Association's Spectrum Guideline and the Getty's Intro to Digital
>Imaging.  (If I ever get tiem to finish it there will be a textbook
>for the course, but it's just finding the time... you know.)
>
>If any one knows of a cracking good textbook on CM please let me know.
>
>Richard Gerrard
>Museum Studies Programme
>University of Toronto
>
>and
>
>Registrar
>Toronto Historical Board