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This revised edition of Things Great and Small is a comprehensive resource for preparing and applying collections management policies. Simmons reviews current ideas and literature on the subject, highlights the issues that collections management policies should address, and explains the pros and cons of choosing some policy options over others.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Considering Collection Management Policies
Chapter 2: Preparing Collection Management Policies
Chapter 3: Introductory Sections
Chapter 4: Authority
Chapter 5: Scope of Collections and Categories of Collections
Chapter 6: Acquisitions, Accessions, and Registrations
Chapter 7: Deaccessions and Disposal
Chapter 8: Loans
Chapter 9: Objects in Custody
Chapter 10: Documentation
Chapter 11: Collections Care
Chapter 12: Collections and Collection Information Access and Use
Chapter 13: Risk Management and Insurance
Chapter 14: Intellectual Property
Chapter 15: Digitization
Chapter 16: Cultural Property
Chapter 17: Ethics
Chapter 18: Appraisals, Identifications, and Research Services
Chapter 19: Policy Review and Revision
Chapter 20: Epilogue: When Policy Meets Reality
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B:
American Alliance of Museums Codes of Ethics for Museums
American Alliance of Museums The Accreditation Commission's Expectations Regarding Collection Stewardship
Appendix C: Laws and Legislation
About the author
John E. Simmons has worked in museums for more than forty years. He has been a zookeeper, collections manager, museum studies instructor, director of a graduate program in museum studies, and a museum consultant. He has taught workshops, training programs, and museum studies classes for undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals in the US and internationally.
At present, Simmons is an independent museum consultant and he teaches museum studies classes for Kent State University, the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Museum Study. He also serves as the Adjunct Curator of Collections for the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery at The Pennsylvania State University.
Simmons is the chairman-elect of the Registrars Committee of the American Association of Museums, and also serves on the board of ARCS (Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists).
