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Hello Melanie,

Barring some sort of specifics to your case any records, images, or documentation you have would stay on record with you and could be used by staff or possibly researchers in cases that don’t violate ownership or copyright if they’ve been transferred elsewhere. Especially as you still have everything on site and haven’t transferred ownership to anyone else there shouldn’t be any issue providing access I wouldn’t think. If the items were transferred I’d refer the researcher to the new institution. If they were destroyed that’s a bit more tricky but explain why and the steps taken. You may also have or want to develop a policy around researcher access to deaccessioned records documentation.

William Shepherd

Collections Officer

Swift Current Museum

44 Robert Street West

Swift Current, Saskatchewan

S9H 4M9

Phone: 306-778-4815

Fax: 306-778-4818

Archives: http://sain.scaa.sk.ca/collections/swift-current-museum

Library: https://www.librarything.com/profile/SwiftCurrentMuseum

Website: http://www.swiftcurrent.ca

From: Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> On Behalf Of Melanie C Deer
Sent: April 27, 2018 9:48 AM
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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Deaccessioned but not removed

Hello All,

So we have a very large collection that recently got deaccessioned (before my time), however it has not been transferred, disposed of, or otherwise dealt with. My understanding is it was deaccessioned with the intent to transfer but that fell through. I now have a researcher inquiring about information on some of the objects deaccessioned.

Do we still have rights to the documentation and images taken of the objects? Or are they in lala land due to being deaccessioned?

Thank you,

Melanie

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