Dear Colleagues,
    Our director is trying to reorganize our staff for maximum efficiency
and would like to see the organizational charts of other museums' collection
departments. If you have organizational charts for the whole museum staff
that would be great too. You can reply to me off the list if you wish. Thank
you in advance.
Darlene Perry
Collections Manager
North Carolina Maritime Museum
315 Front Street
Beaufort, NC 28516
(252) 728-7317
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  Does anyone know of any virtual museums that are honest to goodness,
independent, non-profit, collecting institutions that have no physical
collections or infrastructure other than the servers they're housed on?  I'm
working with a group that wants to organize such an entity to collect and
digitize photographs, film and video that documents the history of a local
community, and then create web sites, virtual exhibits and video productions
as well as an on-line archive to make the material accessible. The actual
film/photos would either be returned to the donors or passed along to
another institution that curates these types of items.



  The questions are:



  1) Is there any organization operating on this model already?

  2) How might the legal complexities of obtaining unrestricted rights to a
copy of someone's film but not the actual film be handled in the language of
the deed of gift (we're talking about people's home movies, old corporate
film and video, old TV news video, etc so we may be dealing with both
individuals and corporations as donors)?

  3) What other complications regarding access, use and licensing can you
think of?

  4) Are we crazy?



  Thanks,



  Dan



  Dan Bartlett

  Curator of Exhibits and Education

  Logan Museum of Anthropology

  Beloit College

  (608) 363-2678

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