Title: Collections management for museums :
Authors: Museum Documentation Association (Great Britain).; Roberts, D. Andrew
Date: 1988
Publisher: The Association,
Physical description: xx, 237 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: A
Contents: Collections management for museums / D. Andrew Roberts -- Surveys of collections management systems and practice. Introduction / Philip S. Doughty. Survey of North American collections management systems and practice / Jane E. Sledge. Overview of collections management practice in Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea / Jennifer Game. Collections management systems and practice in United Kingdom museums / D. Andrew Roberts. Collections management systems and practice in museums in the Nordic countries / Carsten Larsen -- System design. Introduction / Peter Homulos. The scope and design of collections management systems / Richard Light. Checklist of automated collections management systems features, or, how to go about selecting a system / Jane Sunderland and Lenore Sarasan. Planning techniques for collections information systems / Stephen Toney -- Role of professional groups. Introduction / Peter Wilson. Role of professional groups in the United States / Karol Schmiegel. The Canadian experience / Sonja Tanner-Kaplash. The UK registrar : a future in the balance? / Fredericka Smith, Margaret Stewart and Jonathan Mason -- Procedural and policy developments in individual museums. Introduction / Roger Smither. The National Maritime Museum : planning for the future / Richard Ormond. Information technology in the Leicestershire Museums, Art Galleries and Records Service : past, present and future / Patrick J. Boylan. New applications for computers in the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside / Richard Foster and Philip Phillips. Collections management policy and procedure initiatives at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History / Katherine P. Spiess. Inter-relationship of collections and risk management / Toshio Yamamoto. Collections management at the Australian National Gallery / Maxine Esau. Cataloguing procedures at the University Gallery, Melbourne / Annette Welkamp. Collections management in the Australian National Film and Sound Archive / David Watson -- Training and advisory developments. Introduction / Brian Morris. On the road again : the provision of documentation advice and training by the Museum Documentation Association / Stuart Holm. The IMC Foundation's advisory and training activities for Dutch museums / Jeanne Hogenboom. Training for collections management in the United Kingdom / Geoffrey Lewis. Teaching collections management for museums in the information age : curriculum planning for the Museum Studies Program, University of Toronto / Lynne Teather and Toshio Yamamoto. Collections management in relation to museum studies training in Australia / John C. Hodge. A graduate programme for documentation training : a student's experience / Joanne M. Neri. Museums and Galleries Commission (MGC) : new initiatives / Christopher Newbery -- Consultancy support for museums. Introduction / Timothy M. Ambrose. The role of management consultants / Rebecca Morgan. Providing documentation and automation consultancy support to United Kingdom museums / D. Andrew Roberts. Museum automation consultancy in the United States / Lenore Sarasan -- Collections management systems. Vendor/user forum and systems exhibition / Philip Doughty and D. Andrew Roberts.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Museum registration methods--Congresses.; Museum techniques--Congresses; Museums--Data processing--Congresses.