I am looking for examples of private museum collection access policies
which provide guidance on requests from the media for information about
specific objects from archaeological sites.

We recently received a request from a freelance journalist for detailed
information about a collection of objects in our archaeology collection.
He is writing an article on a large archaeological site and would like a
complete list of artifacts from that site which are curated in our
collection.  Our access policy doesn't specifically address this type of
request.  It basically says that a person has to be affiliated with an
educational institution and have a research related reason for examining
artifacts.

Does anyone have a policy and/or procedures for dealing with
this type of request for information/access?

Thank you,


Jan I. Bernstein
Collections Manager/NAGPRA Coordinator
Univerity of Denver
Museum of Anthropology
2130 South Race Street
Denver, CO  80208

(303) 871-2543
FAX (303) 871-2736
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