The reason I didn't respond the first time is because I am a collections
manager in a fairly large museum and I thought you specified medium sized
museums.  Our institution has a collections manager for each major collection,
ornithology, ichthyology, botany (vacant), vertebrate biology/paleontology,
malacology, invert. paleontology, entomology, exhibits, diatoms, and I've
probably forgotten one or two.  The best analogy for collections managers
here is a librarian.  We are responsible for all database management, the
physical well-being of the specimens, loan, visitors, questions from the
public, behind-the-scenes tours, and management of curatorial
assistants and volunteers.
I hope this is helpful.  In a sense it might be redundant as I was one of
the respondants for Paisley Cato's survey.
Elana Benamy
Collection Manager, Invertebrate Paleontology
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
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ps.  I hope this is in order once posted because my screen was disrupted by
a new mail message and was never restored properly-as I'm typing new stuff,
it's appearing in the middle of the text on my screen.  My apologies if it's
scrambled.