MRM5 : museum registration methods / edited by Rebecca A. Buck and Jean Allman Gilmore.
The first new edition in a decade of this famous "bible of the museum registrar," rewritten, expanded and fully updated. MRM5 encompasses all that needs to be known and done when a museum accessions, measures, marks, moves, displays or stores an object or artifact of any knd. New with the...
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Washington, DC :
AAM Press, American Association of Museums,
[2010]
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Table of Contents:
- The profession
- History of registration / Rebecca Buck
- Collection roles / Rebecca Buck
- The administrative placement of registration and collections care in museums / Mark Janzen
- A composite job description for the registrar / Rebecca Buck
- The role of the registrar in the museum's web / Charles Hummel
- Why I love museum registrars! / Janet Burnett Grossman
- Insurance and the importance of the registrar / Bill Allen
- The registrar's bookshelf / Rebecca Buck
- The profession: hypotheticals.
- Policies
- Collections management policies / John E. Simmons
- Ad hoc policies for collections managers / Robin Meador-Woodruff
- Policies: hypotheticals.
- The basics
- Initial custody and documentation / Rebecca Buck
- Acquisitions and accessioning / Clarisse Carnell, Rebecca Buck
- Repositories / Kara J. Hurst
- Provenance research in museum collections / Karen D. Daly
- Documenting contemporary art / Mark B. Schlemmer
- The basics I: hypotheticals
- Old loans / Ildiko Pogany DeAngelis
- Old loans: state legislation / Kathryn Speckart
- Model museum unclaimed property law MAAM Registrars Committee
- Deaccessioning / Martha Morris, Antonia Moser
- Deaccessioning risk chart / Rebecca Buck
- Found-in-collection / Rebecca Buck
- The basics II: hypotheticals
- Loans / Sally Freitag, Cherie Summers, Judy Cline
- Organizing loan and traveling exhibitions / Julia Bakke
- In-house exhibitions / Gwen Bitz
- Hosting traveling exhibitions / Deborah Slaney
- The basics III: hypotheticals.
- Records management
- Types of files / Kittu Longstreth-Brown, Rebecca Buck
- Manual systems / Kittu Longstreth-Brown, Rebecca Buck
- Computerized systems / Suzanne Quigley, Perian Sully
- Digital asset management / Olivia Arnone
- Basic components of an institutional archive / K. Sharon Bennett
- Documentation systems: hypotheticals.
- Collections management
- Numbering / Rebecca Buck
- Object handling / Dixie Neilson
- Measuring / Holly Young
- Condition reporting / Marie Demeroukas
- Marking / Tamara Johnston, Robin Meador-Woodruff, Terry Segal
- Photography / Scott Hankins
- Collections management I: hypotheticals
- Preventive care / Genevieve Fisher
- Storage / Lynn Swain, Rebecca Buck
- Inventory / Maureen McCormick
- Preparation / Claudia Jacobson
- Collections management II: hypotheticals
- Moving and rigging safety / David Ryan
- Packing and crating / Brent Powell, John Molini, T. Ashley McGrew
- Shipping by land, air and sea / Irene Taurins
- Import and export / Racine Berkow
- Couriering / Cherie Summers
- RC-AAM courier policy statement
- Collections management III: hypotheticals.
- Risk management
- Risk management overview / Paisley S. Cato, Sean Tarpey
- Insurance / Sean Tarpey, Patricia J. Hayes, Deborah Peak
- Emergency preparedness planning / Paisley S. Cato, Anne Fuhrman Douglas
- Emergency response and recovery / Paisley S. Cato
- Security systems and fire protection systems / Paisley S. Cato
- Integrated pest management / Albert Green, Nancy L. Breisch
- Registrars and sustainability / Lea Foster Warden, Sara Frantz
- Risk management: hypotheticals.
- Ethical and legal issues
- Ethics for registrars and collections managers / Rebecca Buck
- Collections ethics / Ildiko Pogany DeAngelis
- Care of sacred and culturally sensitive objects / Alison Edwards
- Ethics: hypotheticals
- Copyright / Christine Steiner
- Photographic services and rights and reproductions / Mary F. Holahan, Bethany Engel, Jennifer Holl
- AAMD tax primer / Anita M. Difanis
- Appraisals / Sonja Tanner-Kaplash
- Legal issues I: hypotheticals
- Compying with NAGPRA / C. Timothy McKeown, Amanda Murphy, Jennifer Schansberg
- Biological material: fish, wildlife and plants / William G. Tompkins, Elaine L. Johnston, Julie L. Haifley
- Legal issues II: hypotheticals
- Glossary.