Dear Anne: It seems you might be duplicating the work that the architect
and your director of operations are required to do for building
renovations. They usually keep minutes of meetings with contractors and
vendors; submit changes as drawings on a regular basis, etc. Why make extra
work for yourselves? What you might concentrate on is hiring a consultant
specifically for monitoring conservation issues and one for environmental
concerns for collections who can attend meetings with or for you, and keep
you apprised of any changes. I and others have worked and highly recommend:
Paul Himmelstein out of New York, and Bill Lull/Garrison & Lull out of
Princeton Junction, NJ. If you'd like to know more about our experiences in
several museum renovations and new building projects, please contact me at
212.625.2011. All the best, Cheers!
Geri Thomas, President
Thomas & Associates, Inc.
www.artstaffing.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anne Lane" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2001 4:49 PM
Subject: Documentation of Renovations
> Hello - If you're on both lists and get this twice, please delete it once!
> The registrar, the archivist and I met this morning to brainstorm about
> methodology for documenting proposed renovations to some of our buildings
> and sites, and eventually the building of a new museum. We want to have
> some sort of mechanism in place whereby we can keep a log of progress,
> photodocumented, as well as files with all the drawings and revisions and
> other detritus of such a project. Institutional archives and history have
> not alwaysbeen kept in a particulary consistent way around here and we
> would like to be able to make it easier to enlist overworked staff in
these
> projects. If you successfully used volunteers or interns to help, how did
> you recruit and train them? We are also interested in ways you might have
> found to keep the public informed about and interested in the project.
>
> Many thanks in advance for anything at all from mere snippets to fully
> realized programs -
> Anne
>
> Anne T. Lane, Collections Manager
> York County Culture & Heritage Commission
> 4621 Mount Gallant Road
> Rock Hill SC 29732-8666
> 803-329-2121, ext. 104
> Fax 803-329-5249
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