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National Collections Program
Developing a Collections Management Policy
Emerging Issues during Policy Development or Revision
Emerging Issues during Policy Development or Revision (not in priority order)
- Clearer mission statements: more depth and clarity. (No longer to collect, preserve, and interpret)
- Clearer delegation of authority.
- Acquisition policies: threshold dates regarding museum policy on acquiring stolen cultural property (issues of provenance)
- Collecting Plans: linking collections and their acquisition to the museum's mission.
- Strengthening criteria for evaluation of various collection activities: acquisition, deaccession, access, loan
- Deaccessioning: positive part of prudent collections management; collections refinement.
- Use of deaccession proceeds.
- Emphasis on documentation of activities, decisions (manual and electronic; responsibilities)
- Electronic information & management: documentation, access issues (accuracy, integrity, restriction)
- Intellectual Property rights: reproduction and copyright.
- Access issues regarding collection records and documentation.
- Ethics and Standards of Conduct: personal collecting, appraisals, professional codes, authentication.
- "Re-engineering" collections management processes: rethinking traditional approaches.
- Various collection status: accessioned, non-accessioned, study, education (control and use)
- Repatriation (NAGPRA): codifying the principles of NAGPRA.
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