When I think of "care" its mostly reactive, whereas "management" is more proactive and implies long-range planning. I also think of access control when you use the word "management" -- how is that managed, is the collection accessible -- physically, virtually? - David - David Lewis, Curator Aurora Regional Fire Museum www.AuroraRegionalFireMuseum.org -----Original Message----- From: James Tichgelaar <[log in to unmask]> To: MUSEUM-L <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Fri, Mar 21, 2014 12:02 pm Subject: Re: [MUSEUM-L] Graduate Project Question Collections Management is going to include not just physical care of the collections, but also the intellectual care of the data about collections (donor records, site reports, catalog records, conservation reports, inventory logs, etc.). On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Angelique Kelley <[log in to unmask]> wrote: Hello all! This is my first time posting, but I am hoping you can help me with something. I'm taking a graduate course at JHU where the teacher wants me to ask other professionals their opinions so we can devise a final project for me. Here's my question...What is the difference between collections care (preventive conservation) and collections management? I'm tasked with writing a Wikipedia article and there is one on collections care already, but it's pretty generalized and we want to make an in-depth, management policy-type article, but we also do not want to simply restate what's already been said. Thoughts? Link to the collections Wikipedia Care article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collections_care ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes). To unsubscribe from the MUSEUM-L list, click the following link: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-HOME.exe?SUBED1=MUSEUM-L&A=1 ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).