#collection management

[saintartemis]

Musings of a Museum Professional.

All I want for Christmas, is unlimited funds so I can shop at Gaylord Archival.

[honorthegods]

La présidente du Louvre alerte sur l’état dégradé des bâtiments

Laurence des Cars s’inquiète, dans un courrier à la ministre de la culture, Rachida Dati, de défauts d’étanchéité mettant en péril des œuvre

Louvre museum in dire state, problems ‘endanger’ art, director warns in plea for help | CNN

The Louvre, the world’s most-visited museum and home to Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa,” has requested urgent help from the French governmen

[intothestacks]

The Trouble with Dewey

The Dewey Decimal System is in many ways an outdated mess,and many of its flaws are more insidious than examples of old-fashioned conventions.

If your audience leans on the younger side (e.g. pre-reading/learning how to read) make signage with images. It helps them SO much.

[brooklynmuseum]

November 4th is #AskAConservator Day! Conservators around the world will be answering questions about their work in the spirit of sharing knowledge and celebrating the growth of the field, and our #BKMConservation staff would love to hear from you. Our conservation lab is made up of ten conservators, four interns working across paper, painting, and object conservation as well as four Collection Management staff. Our conservators worked on approximately 840 objects and artworks this year while our Collections Management team has worked on multiple large, long-term storage/rehousing projects across all our collections.

Have a question for any of them? Look out for our post and Instagram stories on November 4th. The lab will be answering questions from 9am-5pm EST.⁠

Photos by Maribel Vitagliani and Cindy Ortiz

[whenalibrarian]

Bring on the second civil war.  We're upping our game.

When a librarian notices a particular bent to the recent spate of purchases and holds, and it’s not too pleasant

[brooklynmuseum]

Do Ho Suh’s, The Perfect Home II, 2003, a full-scale fabric replica of his New York City apartment came to the Museum in seven wooden crates filled with polyester fabric, various sized stainless steel rods and no instructions for its installation. Conservators, registrars, art handler, curators, designers, as well as individuals from the artist’s studio and gallery worked on this project for five months to get from boxes of fabric and stainless steel to the amazing installation currently on view in One: Do Ho Suh.

This work was made at a time when the artist did not create instructions for installation, although luckily he did provide instructions for later versions. After an initial inventory of all parts, we used instructions and installation images for other versions of the work to help piece together the installation. Despite the availability of these resources, we still had to puzzle out a few areas during installation.

We documented the installation through photographs, written notes and diagrams beginning with the hanging of suspension wires and installation of the stainless steel rod structure. During assembly of the metal structure we found that in some instances we were missing parts, which we were able to refabricate with artist approval. The polyester fabric was then attached to the stainless steel structure and steamed numerous times to remove any wrinkles or creases which developed while packed in storage. 

Posted by Jakki Godfrey

[whenalibrarian]

Totally Legit

When a librarian replaces a barcode rather than creating a new item so that she can keep the record’s circulation history for future reference.