[NHCOLL-L:1148] Re: Collections Policy

[Boylan P]

Dear Julie:

The Council of Europe (intergovernmental body for over 40 European
countries) has just started work on drawing up international
recommendations or standards for the protection and promotion of all
aspects of the heritage of European universities - with museums as an
important element of this work.  It's hope that a draft document will be
available for consultation during 2002.

In the meantime you might like to check out Oxford and University College
London on the UK, and the University of Bologna, Italy, all of which have
been developing co-ordination programmes and standards for their range of
important museums as initial efforts.


Patrick Boylan

(Professor of Heritage Policy and Management, City University, London,
& Council of Europe working party member)

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On Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Julie Golden wrote:

> I am wondering if any of the university affiliated NHColl members have 
> university-wide collection policies for their institutions? Is there a 
> section in your Operations Manual that covers collections like there is for 
> Intellectual Property?  We are discussing this issue and would love to hear 
> your thoughts about what areas/issues might be covered. The aim is for this 
> to apply to established institutions on campus like museums (with their own 
> policies) as well as individual colleges or departmental units (individual 
> faculty also) that have collections (not just scientific materials). If 
> your manual is on-line, please send me your URL; if your manual is print 
> only, I would like to receive a photocopy of the appropriate 
> section(s).  Those of you involved in similar discussions or who played a 
> part in creating such a policy, I would really like to hear about your 
> experiences.
>