The New Museum Registration Methods

The New Museum Registration Methods

Author: American Association of Museums

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13:

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A successor to Museum Registration Methods after the revision of its third volume was abandoned as impractical. Reports the most recent research and practice for improving the care, safety, and documentation of museum collections. Covers documentation, collections management, processes, administrative functions, risk management, and ethical and legal issues. Includes a glossary without pronunciation. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Registration Methods for the Small Museum

Registration Methods for the Small Museum

Author: Daniel B. Reibel

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780759111318

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Daniel B Reibel's Registration Methods for the Small Museum has been the definitive guide to registration methodology since 1978. Covering all aspects of the registration of museum collections, Registration Methods for the Small Museum provides practical solutions for any museum professional in a concise, readable manner. The new fourth edition brings the classic handbook up-to-date with the electronic registration techniques that are available for today's museum.


Museum Registration Methods

Museum Registration Methods

Author: Rebecca A. Buck

Publisher:

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 516

ISBN-13: 9780838911228

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Rewritten, expanded and fully updated, MRM5 encompasses all that needs to be known and done when a museum accessions, measures, marks, moves, and displays or stores an object/artifact of any kind. MRM5 includes expert advice from more than 60 acknowledged leaders in their disciplines. New with the 5th edition are special teaching sections that challenge students and seasoned staff alike with questions about the process and procedures of accessioning and caring for objects.


Things Great and Small

Things Great and Small

Author: John E. Simmons

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 9781442277441

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This revised edition of Things Great and Small is a comprehensive resource for preparing and applying collections management policies. Simmons reviews current ideas and literature on the subject, highlights the issues that collections management policies should address, and explains the pros and cons of choosing some policy options over others.


National Standards & Best Practices for U.S. Museums

National Standards & Best Practices for U.S. Museums

Author: American Association of Museums

Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13:

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"[This publication] synthesises the experience and best thinking of leading professionals, looking both inward at how museums function and outward toward their role in society at large. Our goal: to offer specific ways to think more deeply about making your institution the best it can be and provide tools to bring your ideas to fruition." -- Preface.


Museum Registration Methods

Museum Registration Methods

Author: John E. Simmons

Publisher: American Alliance of Museums

Published: 2020-04-15

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 9781538113110

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The sixth edition of Museum Registration Methods is a comprehensive guide to registration and collections management of museum collections, from acquisition, use, and deaccessioning.


Collection Conundrums

Collection Conundrums

Author: Rebecca A. Buck

Publisher: Rlpg/Galleys

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13:

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Collection Conundrums: Solving Museum Registration Mysteries provides guidelines for investigating the oddities found in every museum collection - objects without record, identification or sometimes even a location - and determining what to do. Written by registrars Rebecca Buck and Jean A. Gilmore, editors of the best-selling The New Museum Registration Methods, this new volume contains essential information for museums large and small, new and old. The text offers solutions to the problems of old loans, undocumented objects found in collections, items lost in inventory, supplementary collections and more, as well as guidelines on how to keep problems from occurring in the first place. Features a history of registration methods and the standards for collection documentation and care, along with sample documents such as loan agreements, co-tenancy agreements, storage agreements and deed of gift. Recommended for everyone involved in collections planning and management.


Museum Registration Methods

Museum Registration Methods

Author: John E. Simmons

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2020-06-22

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 1538113120

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Since the first edition was published in 1958, Museum Registration Methods has defined the profession and served as a fundamental reference for all aspects of collections registration, care, and management. The sixth edition of Museum Registration Methods is a comprehensive guide to registration and collections management for museums, from acquisition to use and deaccessioning. The authors and other contributors come from a wide variety of museums and specializations. The 56 chapters in this edition are either new or updated, and include the history of the profession, the role of the registrar in the museum, managing very large collections, developing and implementing collection management policies, documentation of collections, accessioning, condition reports, deaccessioning, repositories, and provenance research. Contemporary and digital art, living and natural history collections, loans, exhibitions, found-in-collection objects, shipping, records management, and electronic data management are also addressed, along with object handling and numbering, digitization, condition reporting, preventive care, storage on and off-site, inventory, moving and packing, shipping nationally and internationally, couriering, risk assessment, security, insurance, integrated pest management, ethics, sustainability, sacred and culturally sensitive objects, intellectual property rights, appraisal, ethical and legal issues, and research. The book includes a comprehensive resource list, glossary, hypothetical situations to ponder, and model collection forms.


Museum Registration Methods

Museum Registration Methods

Author: Dorothy H. Dudley

Publisher:

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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Gives the information on the marking and storage of museum collection and the packing and shipping of object, changes in tariff laws and regulations governing importing and exporting, and new developments in museum insurance. Shows new articles...