At 06:45 PM 10-03-2000 -0800, you wrote:
My question: do you organize your paper
>object catalog records by Revised Nomenclature OR by accession number? We
>have done both and each has their merits.

We used to keep catalogue cards, and had one set filed by accession number
and one by category. I believe some of the anthropology items were also
filed by cultural group. Now that we are computerized, we just keep
everything by accession number. The computer does the cross-referencing for
us.

Anne T. Lane, Collections Assistant
Museum of York County
4621 Mount Gallant Road,
Rock Hill, SC 29732-9905
803-329-2121, ext. 104
FAX 803-329-5249

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