It would depend very much on how these items came to you - as one
unit or individually.  It is my thinking they should be accessioned
separately if possible. This would facilitate deaccessioning.

If they were never actually accessioned, you may want to contact
the people that they were acquired from and find out what the intent
was at that time.  Maybe they were unloading junk themselves!

Regards

Mary Haegele
The Upper Midwest Historian. Visit our website
www.joes.com/home/book_list

On 9 Nov 98,, the dancing digits of Allison Weiss delivered:

I am on the board of a small, volunteer-run historical society.  We
are
trying to finalize a collections policy.   The organization inherited
a
lot of objects with a building and I want to know how to address
these
objects in the collections policy.  Is it assumed that they are
already
"accessioned"?  Can we get rid of some of these things (there is a
lot of
junk) without actually deaccesssioning them?

Any advice? Please respond soon!

Allison Weiss
Historic Takoma, Inc.

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