Collection conundrums
Subtitle: solving collections management mysteries
By: Rebecca A. Buck and Jean Allman Gilmore.
Contributors: Gilmore, Jean Allman, 1946-; American Association of Museums.
Publisher: American Association of Museums
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781933253084
Subjects: Museums -- Collection management
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Public trust; title: The accessioned object; title: History of collecting and development of standards; title: Some business methods in the Metropolitan Museum of Art / by Henry Watson Kent; title: "A piece of the True Cross : relics and oddities," an exhibition from the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum; title: Museum collections terminology; title: Systematic approaches : introduction to object conundrums; title: Old loans; title: Found in collection; title: Unsolicited deposits; title: Finding lenders, donors and artists; title: Minor conundrums; title: The stranger within : managing supplemental collections / by Holly Young; title: Just say no!; title: Policies and procedures; title: Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture : complexity and care in the inland Northwest / by Rebecca Buck; title: Accessioning the N.C. Wyeth House and Studio / by Jean Allman Gilmore.