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Intro to Collections Care Best Practices
Julia reviews draft collections best care practices being developed by the History Trust Collections Committee.
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Care & Handling of Photographs
This post provides a brief overview of the environmental factors that lead to deterioration, as well as some best practices for handling, labeling, and storing photographic collections.
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We Are Stewards of History
In creating The History Trust, we took lessons from the founders of the land conservation movement. Particularly, those who recognized the need to protect the exquisite qualities of Mount Desert Island
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Arranging and Describing Archival Collections
The focus of this piece is physical archival records of enduring value.
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Accessioning and Cataloging Objects
One important topic is how museum cataloging differs from library cataloging (or indexing).
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Differences Between Archives, Libraries, and Museums
What’s the difference between libraries, museums, and archives anyway?
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We can’t keep everything, but . . .
We can’t keep everything,but we can collaborate.Think for a moment about all the really cool, old stuff there is out in the world. Or even just on Mount Desert