Level 1 - Getting started
From Our Toolkit
What this might look like for you:
- you have very little or no documentation on the collections
- you have a volunteer(s) or an individual who looks after the collection
- you have some paper based records and information about them
- you would like to create an order to what you already hold and how you might collect material in the future
Suggested activity:
- developing a list of your collection
- defining what you collect
- beginning to use standard documents to manage your collections
- labelling your collections
- photographing your collections
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- Our toolkit
- Welcome to the toolkit
- How to use this toolkit
- Governance
- Financial planning
- Income generation
- Fundraising
- Collections
- What do we mean by collections?
- The difference between the museum and archive approach
- Things to consider before you start
- Accreditation schemes
- Collections at risk
- Digitising your collection
- Collection management
- Collection care
- Hear it from an expert – Brian Worrell
- Hear it from an expert – Dave Smith
- Audiences
- Learning
- Evaluation
- Access
- Staffing and volunteers
- Community engagement
- Coming soon!
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