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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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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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Arranging and Describing Archival Collections
The focus of this piece is physical archival records of enduring value.
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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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Differences Between Archives, Libraries, and Museums
What’s the difference between libraries, museums, and archives anyway?
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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.