Collections Management Resources
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Introductory Texts:
American Public Gardens Association: “Understanding the Fundamentals: Collections Overview.” https://publicgardens.org/resources/understanding-fundamentals-collections-overview.
Ohio Local History Alliance: “A Primer on Museum Collections Management”http://www.ohiolha.org/resources/how-tos/a-primer-on-museum-collection-management/.
National Board of Antiquities: “Checklist for Museum Collections Management and Policy” http://www.nba.fi/fi/File/2404/museum-collections-management-policy.pdf
Implementation Guidelines:
American Alliance of Museums (US): “Developing a Collections Management Policy”
http://www.aam-us.org/docs/continuum/developing-a-cmp-final.pdf?sfvrsn=2
Collections Trust (UK)
Collections Management Guidance Sheet 1: Collections Management Framework
Collections Management Guidance Sheet 2: Policies
Collections Management Guidance Sheet 3: Planning and procedures
National Park Service (US)
NPS Museum Handbook Part I: Museum Collections:http://www.nps.gov/museum/publications/MHI/mushbkI.html
NPS Museum Handbook Part II: Museum Records:
http://www.nps.gov/museum/publications/MHII/mushbkII.html
NPS Museum Handbook Part III: Museum Collections Use:
http://www.nps.gov/museum/publications/MHIII/mushbkIII.html
The Society for the Preservation of Natural History collections: Best Practices
http://www.spnhc.org/37/best-practices
Metadata Standards:
Collections Management Standards (guidelines for required information)
Biodiversity Information Standards, DarwinCore
Collections Trust, Spectrum
http://www.collectionstrust.org.uk/spectrum
Data Structure Standards (metadata element sets)
The Getty Research Institute, Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CWDA)
http://www.getty.edu/research/publications/electronic_publications/cdwa/
Visual Resources Association, VRACore
http://core.vraweb.org/index.html
Data Value Standards (content to fill data structures)
American Association of State and Local History (AASLH), Nomenclature
http://community.aaslh.org/nomenclature-errata/
The Getty Research Institute, Getty Vocabularies
http://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/
Library of Congress (LoC), LoC Subject Headings
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects.html
For more information about different types of metadata and metadata categories, we encourage you to review this presentation by Murtha Baca at the 2008 Special Library Association: http://www.slideshare.net/vonjobi/murtha-baca-470569)
Examples of Collections Management Policies:
Object Collections
Florida Museum of Natural History
https://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/collections/policy/
Metropolitan Museum of Art
http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/collections-management-policy
New York State Museum Sample Collections Management Policy
https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/services/charter/additionaldoc/collections.html
San Diego Archaeological Center
http://www.sandiegoarchaeology.org/images/Curation/SDAC%20Collections%20Mgmt%20Policy%202013.pdf
Science Museum of Minnesota
https://www.smm.org/collections/policystatement
The Whitney Museum of American Art
http://whitney.org/file_columns/0002/6177/collection_management_policy_final_4-13-09_.pdf
Living Collections
Longwood Gardens
http://longwoodgardens.org/gardens/about-our-plants/our-collections/plant-collections-policy
Missouri Botanical Gardens Herbarium Collections Management Policy
U.S. National Arboretum
http://www.usna.usda.gov/Information/USNACollectionsPolicy.pdf