Practical museum documentation

Contributor(s):

Museum Documentation Association (Cambridge)

Publication details: Cambridge : Museum Documentation Association, 1981Edition: Second editionDescription: IV, 42, [68] pISBN:

0905963415

Summary: This book is a guide to the techniques to use when documenting a typical museum collection. It is directed at the concerned professional curator. While not meant to be an exhaustive or definitive study, it should act as a starting point for a museum considering how to improve its existing documentation procedures or a museum that is just being established. (…) We have been concerned to present a general overview of the features of a museum's documentation system. This includes a description of procedures to cope with both the initial receipt of objects and information by the museum and the subsequent cataloguing and indexing of permanently acquired material. The book is intended to be considered as an integrated exposition of documentation practice. Individual sections are not self-contained, but should be regarded as part of this whole. (Font: Introducció)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Centre d' Informació i Documentació del CERC	PM Pra 81	1	Available		1900026949

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Glossary -- 3. Why document museum collections? -- 4. What constitutes a museum documentation system? -- 5. Object documentation -- 6. Locality documentation -- 7. Bibliographic documentation -- 8. Biographic documentation -- 9. Event documentation -- 10. The record: Data standards ; Recording media ; Terminology control ; Computer storage formats -- 11. Cataloguing and indexing -- 12. The computerisation of museum documentation -- 13. Administrative and physical organisation -- 14. Security and confidentiality -- 15. Help from the museum documentation association -- Appendices: 1. Numbering objects ; 2. Equipment suppliers: 3. The results of a computerisation project -- References -- Index

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