Kathie,

You might want to read the following articles that were published in 1989
and 1990 in the proceedings from the annual meetings of the Association for
Living History, Farm and Agricultural Museums. If you can't find the
Proceedings in a library near you, you can order them online, here:

http://www.alhfam.org/?cat_id=287&nav_tree=96,102,287

Deborah Scott, "Tier Levels and Collections Management: Adapting
Traditional Museum Approaches for Historic Site Use," 1989 ALHFAM
Proceedings

Carl Schlichting, "Tiering Collections: From a Conservative Point of View,"
1989 ALHFAM Proceedings.

Tom Brown, "Collections Use in Living History," 1990 ALHFAM Proceedings

All three of them have to do with the concept of tiering collections, which
is much like what Dani described in terms of what is not expendable under
any circumstances, down to what is freely expendable.

I hope this helps.

Martha Katz-Hyman
Curator
Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation
Williamsburg, VA

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