[Nhcoll-l] MS 207- Cataloging Your Collection On-line course July-August

[Helen Alten]

      Collections Management: Cataloging Your Collection On-line Course

$475.00
Instructor:
Peggy Schaller
SKU: ms207

*Description:*

Cataloging may not be the most exciting museum task, but it is among the 
most important. Without a clear knowledge of your holdings, you can't 
protect, care for, research or exhibit them. Without knowledge of an 
item's history, you can't properly appreciate its value to your museum. 
Cataloging Your Collection covers all details needed to catalog a 
collection. Procedures for handling, measuring and describing all types 
of objects and materials are discussed in detail. Participants receive 
sample forms and learn the best practices for numbering artifacts, 
performing inventory and assessing the condition of objects. 
Participants practice describing everyday objects and cataloging items 
from their own collections or households.

*Course Outline: *

1. Introduction: Policy and Mission

2. Cataloging: Why Do We Catalog Our Artifacts?

3. Forms

4. Numbering

5. Handling

6. Conservation and Storage

7. Inventories

8. Cataloging

9. Considerations for Specific Objects

10. Summary

*Peggy Schaller*, founded Collections Research for Museums in 1991 to 
provide cataloging, collection-management training and services. She has 
worked with a large variety of museums and collections for more than 20 
years. Peggy, who lives in Denver, Colorado, has a bachelor's degree in 
anthropology with minors in art history and geology from the University 
of Arizona in Tucson. She has a master's degree in anthropology with a 
minor in museum studies from the University of Colorado in Boulder and 
is a Certified Institutional Protection Manager II. She provides 
workshops and project services to museums and historical societies all 
across the country. The mission of Collections Research for Museums is 
to inspire museums to improve their professional standards, collections 
stewardship and service to their constituency through training in, and 
assistance with, documenting, preserving, protecting and managing their 
collections.


*MS207 <http://www.collectioncare.org/training/trol_classes_ms207.html>: 
Collections Management: Cataloging Your Collection*
               Jul 7 - Aug 1, 2014 (4 weeks)
www.collectioncare.org/www.museumclasses,org

-- 
Helen Alten
Northern States Conservation Center
www.collectioncare.org
www.museumclasses.org

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