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Providing collection care, preservation and conservation treatment services to collectors and collecting institutions. |
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Collections CaretakerResources boost your preservation library by Helen Alten Building a collections care resource library for your institution is an inexpensive way to educate staff and volunteers and pass along information to new personnel. Some basic publications will build your library into a useful resource. Two excellent publications from the Texas Association of Museums will help the new museum: Starting a Museum Packet and The Museum Forms Book. The first contains the book Starting Right: A Basic Guide to Museum Planning by Cindy Sherrell-Leo and Gerald George. It also contains a number of useful articles and source lists. The packet is $20 for TAM members and $25 for nonmembers.
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Publication Resources Texas Association of Museums 3939 Bee Caves Road Building A, Suite 1B Austin, TX 78746 tel: 512-328-6812 fax: 512-327-9775
American Association of Museums
Routledge Publishers
Archetype Books
National Park Service
Canadian Conservation Institute Publications Office
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The Museum Forms Book, 2nd edition, includes nearly 300 forms from over 100 museums. An important reference book, it contains good examples of loan forms, copyright agreements, and other documents that are essential to operating a museum. Cost is $35 for TAM members and $40 for nonmembers. The American Association of Museums Technical Information Service has published another museum primer. Organizing Your Museum: The Essentials provides an overview of the duties, responsibilities and opportunities assumed when organizing a new museum. It is available for $27.50 (AAM members) or $35 (nonmembers). The Leicester Readers in Museum Studies, published by Routledge, cover issues in museum management and care from the English perspective. These books are recommended because conservation and preservation are incorporated at all levels, as an intrinsic part of every museum. The series includes the following titles:
The United States National Park Service has produced two helpful handbooks. The first is the NPS Museum Handbook, a weighty reference guide divided into three parts: Museum collections, documentation and use of collections. The second publication is the Conserve O Gram Series, a compilation of 56 short, focused leaflets published in a three-ring binder. Each leaflet provides detailed care information for specific types of objects. Similar to the Conserve O Gram Series, CCI Notes, published by the Canadian government, offer practical advice about issues and questions related to the care, handling and storage of cultural objects. There are more than 80 notes in this ever-expanding series. CCI Notes can be purchased individually or as a set in a binder. Individual notes cost $2 dollars Canadian, the binder set is $85 dollars Canadian. Helen Alten has written and lectured on preventive care techniques since 1986. She is an objects conservator specializing in treatments for historical, archaeological and ethnographic materials. |
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