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Museums Association Seminar Presentation - Practical support for Accreditation - Susanna Hillhouse and Laura Whitton
Presentation given by Susanna Hillhouse, Museum Consultant, and Laura Whitton, Partnerships Manager at the Collections Trust, at the MA Conference, October 2011.
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Collections TrustPractical Support for Accreditation 2011
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Collections Trust and Accreditation -A long tradition of involvement…..
SPECTRUM and now PAS197
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Accreditation 2011
Section 1 - GovernanceConstitution, Management, Forward Planning,finance, sustainability etc.Section 2 – CollectionsCollections Management policies, plans,proceduresSection 3 – Users and their ExperiencesServices, user experience, learning
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Collections Trust – Accreditation Support
• Collections Link• Free resources, networking,
and publications for sale
• Publications and Standards • In support of collections management
• Consultancy from Collections Trust Affiliates• Trusted professional consultancy
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SPECTRUM 4.0 The UK museum Collections Management Standard
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• SPECTRUM 4.0 - issued in March 2011Download from Collections Link – or buy pre-printed
• SPECTRUM partners – softwarefirms committed to providing collections management systems that comply with strict SPECTRUM testing by Collections Trust
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Who are the SPECTRUM Partners?
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SPECTRUM 4.0 Workflow Diagrams
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PAS197 Code of Practice for Cultural Collections Management• The four key Collections Management Policies
recommended in the PAS197 are now requirements of Accreditation
• Museums are encourage to adopt aCollections Management Framework approach of integrated planning, policy and procedure
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Accreditation 2011
Written Policies required for Accreditation
• 2.2.1 Collections Development – (Acquisition and Disposal Policy)
• 2.2.2 Collections Documentation• 2.2.3 Collections Care and Conservation• 3.1.3 Access policy statement
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Practical Guides
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Collections Management – A Practical GuideSupports theimplementationof a collectionsmanagement framework and thepolicies needed forAccreditation.
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Documentation – a Practical Guide
Gives detailedInformation and practical advice onsetting up andMaintaining theSPECTRUM primaryProcedures.
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Improvement Tools – Benchmarks in Collection Care 2.0
Benchmarks can beused to assess whereyou are with collectioncare and to plan forfuture improvement.Free on www.collectionslink.com
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Significance Reviews toolkits
REVIEWING SIGNIFICANCE:a framework for assessing museum collections’significance, management and use. Joint Collections Trust/ Renaissance EastMidlands project. Includes a toolkit forsurveying significance of collections. Publishedon Collections LinkFree on www.collectionslink.com
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Collections Trust Accreditation Guidance Sheets
1. Collections Management Framework2. Collections Management Policies3. Collections Management Planning and proceduresFree on www.collectionslink.com
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Other facts sheets from Collections Trust
• Object Entry• Object Exits • Loans In• Loan Out• Acquisition• Object Movement Control• Cataloguing• Retrospective DocumentationFree on www.collectionslink.com
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Collections Trust Affiliates
• Trusted Consultants
See the list on Collections Trust website
Contact Collections Trust for more information or contact Affiliates directly.
Examples:• Healthchecks - cost-
effective, one-day consultancy brokered by Collections Trust
• ‘PAS 197 for Accreditation’ - Training from Collections Management Network
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www.collectionslink.com
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Browse by Practice……
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Browse by Programme….
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Example of Collections Trust content relevant to Accreditation• Fact sheets…
this one gives a template for building a documentation procedural manual for Accreditation
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Example of content relevant to Accreditation• A link to a forward
planning toolkit produced by South West Museums Federation…..
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Example of content relevant to Accreditation• A link to a volunteer
Management – Good Practice checklist uploaded by Renaissance South East
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www.collectionslink.org.uk
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How?
• Free to use
• Easy registration
• Personalise your profile
• Register your areas of expertise
• Add a subject specialism to your profile
• Link to your website or blog
• Add applications to your profile
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Connect & ShareSearch for other users by:
• Name - in the general search
box on the home page
• Search All Members
• Invite friends via email – even if
they aren’t registered
• Search via expertise/subject
specialism using Advanced Search
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Groups
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Resources
• Browse by Subject, by Practice or by Programme
• Almost 1000 resources online, all freely accessible and available to download
• Added to all the time... New Accreditation support there this week
• You can contribute. We would love you to join in and share your expertise, advice, thoughts and ideas with the sector
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