Research Catalog

Title

Registrars on record : essays on museum collections management / Mary Case, editor.

Publication

Washington, D.C. (1225 Eye St., N.W., Suite 200, Washington 20005) : Registrars Committee of the American Association of Museums, [1988], ©1988.

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Additional Authors

• Case, Mary, 1947-
• American Association of Museums. Registrars Committee.

Description

xiv, 257 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Museum registrars > United States
• Museum registration methods
• Museums > Collection management

Contents

The role of the registrar: From clay tablet to hard disk / Virginia Mann ; What registrars do all day / Mary Case ; The registrar as human resource manager / Daniel B. Reibel -- Collections management: Managing collections information / Karol A. Schmiegel ; The registrar in the cabinet of curiosities / Margaret Santiago ; How the West was hung : a corporate collection tour / Elizabeth Cunningham ; Moving imagery : collections management during a museum move / Ginger Henry Geyer ; Thinking simply / Carol O'Biso -- Accountability: "Let's kill all the lawyers" : registrars, law, and ethics / Jack Foss ; The essential collections inventory / Peggy Smith Finch ; Risk with good reason / Bill Allen -- Automation: Introduction to automation / Karol A. Schmiegel ; The binary ball game / Virginia Mann ; Thinking about technology and managing the change / Louise Jones ; Computer realities in museums / James Clifford ; Computer fantasies for museums / James Clifford.

LCCN

90126523

OCLC

• ocm18565763
• SCSB-5303911

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries