On Thu, 28 Jul 1994, Angela Trigg wrote: > I am a new subscriber to this list service. Was wondering if anyone out there > was also from a small, local history museum? Though I am not from a small history museum myself, my program concerns itself with cataloguing, standards and automation issues in small museums. There are about 300 small museums in British Columbai. > > I am currently writing a Collections Manual. We have only about 500 items, > focusing on farmlife, textiles, schools, community, etc. Am having trouble, > however, in coming up with a good classification system.> Chenhall, that Richard G suggested is in wide use here, and is a good basis for your classification system. It only has three levels though, but does a reasonable job of fitting the whole world in. I will mail you separately a summary we hand out to our musuems. The complete citation is: Blackaby, James R., Patricia Greeno, and the Nomenclature Committee. The Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloguing. A Revised and Expanded Version of Robert G. Chenhall's System for Classifying Man-Made Objects. American Association for State and Local History. 1990. 528p. Cliff Quinn, Dogwood Museum Network Coordinator Ph: (604) 387-3315 [log in to unmask]