Collections Management

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Anne Fahy
Psychology Press, 1995 - 304 pages
A practical introduction bringing together papers discussing some of the major issues affecting collections management in the 1990s.INHOUDWhy museum computer projects fail / Lenore SarasanMuseum information systems: the case for computerization / Pnina WentzCataloguing collections erratic starts and eventual success: a case study / Paul E. Rivard and Steven MillerForeign Ethnographic Collections Research Programme / Elizabeth KwasnikScholarship and the public / Neil MacGregorCollections research: local, national and international perspectives / Alexander FentonSecurity is everybody's business ; Museum and gallery security / Museums and Galleries Commission. A case study of a museum thief / Don Steward. Protection, security and conservation of collections / ICOM and the International Security CommitteeLiability risk management for museums / Elizabeth A. GriffithInsurance and indemnity / G. StansfieldIndemnity arrangements for local museums, galleries and other non-governmental bodies Office of Arts and Libraries.
 

Contents

Evolving a policy manual
29
Guidelines for a Registration Scheme for museums in
35
A framework for management
66
Museums and the horrors of
81
Convention on the means of prohibiting and preventing
89
Law and diplomacy in cultural property matters
97
Collecting for the twentyfirst century
122
Acceptance in lieu
128
a note on legal
161
Infamous deaccessions
168
Scottish sense
182
the case for computerization
198
Cataloguing collections erratic starts and eventual
211
Foreign Ethnographic Collections Research Programme
217
Security is everybodys business
235
Protection security and conservation of collections
251

The Bowes Museum Canaletto Appeal
142
The Science Museum Fund
151
Liability risk management for museums
277
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