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. (If I ever get tiem to finish it there will be a textbook >for the course, but it's just finding the time... you know.) > >If any one knows of a cracking good textbook on CM please let me know. > >Richard Gerrard >Museum Studies Programme >University of Toronto > >and > >Registrar >Toronto Historical Board