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Managing Collections

Techniques for collections management, care, and handling.

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Intro to Collections Care Best Practices

Julia reviews draft collections best care practices being developed by the History Trust Collections Committee.
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Posted by By Julia Gray Posted inManaging Collections13 September 2021Tags: stewardship+note
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Care & Handling of Photographs

This post provides a brief overview of the environmental factors that lead to deterioration, as well as some best practices for handling, labeling, and storing photographic collections.
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Posted by By Hannah Stevens Posted inManaging Collections22 May 2021Tags: stewardship+note
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We Are Stewards of History

In creating The History Trust, we took lessons from the founders of the land conservation movement.
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Posted by By Bill Horner Posted inManaging Collections13 January 2021
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Arranging and Describing Archival Collections

The focus of this piece is physical archival records of enduring value.
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Posted by By Hannah Stevens Posted inManaging Collections21 December 2020Tags: stewardship+note
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Accessioning and Cataloging Objects

One important topic is how museum cataloging differs from library cataloging (or indexing).
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Posted by By Julia Gray Posted inManaging Collections8 December 2020Tags: stewardship+note
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Differences Between Archives, Libraries, and Museums

What’s the difference between libraries, museums, and archives anyway?
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Posted by By Bruce Jacobson Posted inManaging Collections16 November 2020Tags: stewardship+note
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We can’t keep everything, but . . .

We can’t keep everything, but we can collaborate. Think for a moment about all the really cool, old stuff there is just on Mount Desert Island and surrounding communities.
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Posted by By Julia Gray Posted inCollaborating, Managing Collections10 August 2020Tags: stewardship+note

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