In article <[log in to unmask]>, Kyle Berget <[log in to unmask]> writes >How about a good Collections Manual? Our county history museum is stuggling >to put together a collections manual. With all the wonderful museums out >there there must be a basic model to work from or do we really need to >reinvent the wheel? > >Karen Berget >Stevens County Historical Society >116 West 6th St >Morris, MN 56267 >[log in to unmask] > > >>In terms of textbooks for collections management... IMHO, there >>aren't any good, comprehensive and up-to-date ones. I make my >>students read a vast amount ftom a wide range of sources (including >>the law library) for the graduate level CM course I teach at the UofToronto. >> >>I am making them read more and more from material published on the >>WWW. Two "texts" that we are using is the Museum Documentation >>Association's Spectrum Guideline and the Getty's Intro to Digital >>Imaging. >> >>Richard Gerrard >>Museum Studies Programme >>University of Toronto >> >>and >> >>Registrar >>Toronto Historical Board The MDA has put the text of SPECTRUM Essentials on the Web - see below for the address. This is a simplified version of the full SPECTRUM standard - published as a book and also as a Windows Help File. We now have a demonstration version of the Windows Help file available, with a full working version of the Acquisition procedure. If anyone would like a copy, please let me know. The published price of bokk and disk are both 65 Pounds Sterling, plus carriage (3 pounds for the disk). We can take Visa card payments to avoid making too many problems with currency charges. -- David Dawson Museum Documentation Association 347 Cherry Hinton Road Cambridge CB1 4DH tel: (+44) 1223 518126 fax: (+44) 1223 213575 find out more about MDA at http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/mda/