The book offers solutions to these issues at hand, and offers suggestions for better recordkeeping. Written by registrars, Buck and Allman detail the mysteries involving old loans, works without record, or objects without identification. Washington, DC: American Association of Museums. 2007.Collection Conundrums: Solving Museum Registration Mysteries. All the articles stress the importance of maintaining strong recordkeeping, which keeps both the collection, and the museum's reputation with the public, in good standing.īuck, Rebecca A., and Jean Allman Gilmore. Still others address the ethical aspects of keeping or "deaccessioning" works that were not the museum's objects in the first place. Other scholars include statues for individual states that could help museums who are burdened with old loans, since some states address old loan laws differently. Some of the sources below provide protocol for registrars and other museum staff officials to implement. Old loans consume needed storage space, staff time, and monetary resources. The point at stake is that museums have a legal responsibility to care for all its objects, and it must return those not in its collection to the rightful owner after the lending time is finished. As many of the scholars note, the primary issue is not necessarily the expired loan. The articles and books in the bibliography complied below can hopefully help museum collections, both large and small, ameliorate the issue of old loans.
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