Peggy,
The bane of collections everywhere! At
least in my humble opinion.
First you need to make a decision (often based
per case) of the value of the clipping/newspaper to your collection. Is it
intrinsically important – most important person in your area’s history
collected it, relates the most important story of your area’s history, etc.?
Or is it important for its informational content but not its physical presence?
Or neither?
If the first, than of course, treat it as you
would any other paper artifact – accession, store in the best conditions possible.
If the second, than I would copy and discard original and file by subject
categories for retrieval. But not accession! If it is neither that is
a thorny area – sometimes you take and treat as informational if the donor
warrants it, sometimes you refuse.
Mostly I would advise not to simply assume newspaper/magazine
publications automatically must be preserved. They are modern societies most
prolific communication device and found in abundance. I think no matter what
decision the profession make today a lot of paper will exist into the future. Even
if that era may be coming to a close. Good luck there is not tried and true
answer to this dilemma.
Janet Smoak, Director
Besser Museum for Northeast Michigan
491 Johnson St., Alpena, MI 49707
989-356-2202 Reception
989-356-9077 Office
989-356-3133 Fax
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Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009
8:27 AM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Newspaper
clippings
I am trying to set up policies, procedures, and processes relating to
newspaper clippings.
Our small town historical society uses Past Perfect, so that we can
catalog, sort, etc.
but for the physical storage do you keep clippings together by donor,
date, topic, ?
Where do you draw the line and say "We don't keep this"?
Peggy Fredrickson
978-254-5721
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