The Children's Museum sort of accessions its educational resource collection. We treat our ed resource objects the same way we do our permanent collection to a point: each object gets its own record in MIMSY so it can be tracked, but in the legal status field, we put in "education collection" instead of "permanent collection." We put a disclaimer on the deed of gift stating that the objects have been accepted as educational handling material and are not considered a part of the permanent collection. While we would prefer these objects to have a healthy life span, we know that in the course of their being handled it is likely they will be destroyed, so it's just easier to only partially accession them. Robin Lipp Collections Manager The Children's Museum of Indianapolis On Fri, 26 Apr 1996, Janet Sweeting wrote: > How does your musueum handle formal accessing of items in the education > teaching collections for discovery rooms, loan materials, resource > materials and whatever? I'd like to know if you don't do anything and that > is policy, or if you do something and what that policy is. At present we > don't do anything but I have been requested to set up a policy. When the > Office of Education began at Peabody in 1924, everything had formal > accession numbers but this practice had disappeared during the 1950s. > thanks for your help > Janet Sweeting >