Level 2 - Underway
From Our Toolkit
What this might look like for you:
- You want to build on your collection inventory or box lists
- You want to expand on your collecting policy to include a wider range of collection management activity
- Now you have your day-to-day procedures in place you are looking to use your collection in new ways
- You are wanting to put a plan in place to ensure the safety of the collection in case of disaster
Suggested activity:
- Starting to catalogue your collection
- Planning how to tackle the documentation of your collection
- Writing a Collections Development policy
- Develop processes for loaning material in and out of your collection
- Consider using collection-specific software
- Undertaking basic emergency planning
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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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