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MRM5 : museum registration methods /

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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: American Association of Museums
Other Authors: Buck, Rebecca A., 1946-, Gilmore, Jean Allman, 1946-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : AAM Press, American Association of Museums, [2010]
Edition:5th edition.
Subjects:
Museum registration methods.
Museums > Collection management.
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.