Dear colleagues,

we all know that if you work in a museum you have to be a jack of all 
trades. But have you ever counted what skills you use in your job?

Today, Derek Swallow takes a look of the skills a registrar needs when 
caring for loans. Among them are the skills of a juggler, mediator, 
orchestrator, actuator, über collections manager, yoga master, risk 
manager, project managers, customs broker, transport coordinator, 
preparator, inventory controller, diplomat, bureaucrat, legal associate, 
communication hub, document diva or divo, and shepherd:

http://world.museumsprojekte.de/?p=2855

I found it very inspiring to imagine what skills I need for my job. How 
about you? A museum educator sure needs the skills of a sheperd, teacher 
and diplomat, a marketing specialist those of a poet, air-traffic 
controller and sometimes firefighter, an administrative officer those of 
a lawyer and a mediator... I feel one can draw strength from trying to 
think one's job the way Derek does.

Last but not least the article contains wonderful pictures from the BC 
Archives of the Royal BC Museum, Canada and is available in Spanish and 
German, too.

Happy Friday, all!
Angela

Angela Kipp
Collection Manager
TECHNOSEUM, Mannheim, Germany
www.technoseum.de


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