Things Great and Small: Collections Management Policies

By John E. Simmons

Book Overview

Collections care is a core responsibility for all museums that own, care for, or use collections. The foundation stone for good collections care is a good collections management policy. Things Great and Small is the first to comprehensively address how to write such a policy for any type of museum. Drawing on his extensive experience--as director of the University of Kansas museum studies program, collections manager at the university's museum of natural history, and surveyor for AAM's Museum Assessment Program--John Simmons reviews the issues that a collections management policy should address and the pros and cons of choosing one policy option over another. Developed with assistance from the AAM Registrars Committee.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933253037
• ISBN13: 9781933253039
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: American Alliance Of Museums
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.7" x 1.1" x 8.2"