Museums Association Seminar Presentation - Practical support for Accreditation - Susanna Hillhouse...

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Collections TrustPractical Support for Accreditation 2011

Susanna Hillhouse - Collections Management Network

Laura Whitton - Collections Trust

Paul Fraser Webb - Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

Collections Trust and Accreditation -A long tradition of involvement…..

SPECTRUM and now PAS197

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

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

SPECTRUM 4.0 The UK museum Collections Management Standard

• 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

Who are the SPECTRUM Partners?

SPECTRUM 4.0 Workflow Diagrams

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

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

Practical Guides

Collections Management – A Practical GuideSupports theimplementationof a collectionsmanagement framework and thepolicies needed forAccreditation.

Documentation – a Practical Guide

Gives detailedInformation and practical advice onsetting up andMaintaining theSPECTRUM primaryProcedures.

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

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

Collections Trust Accreditation Guidance Sheets

1. Collections Management Framework2. Collections Management Policies3. Collections Management Planning and proceduresFree on www.collectionslink.com

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

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

www.collectionslink.com

Browse by Practice……

Browse by Programme….

Example of Collections Trust content relevant to Accreditation• Fact sheets…

this one gives a template for building a documentation procedural manual for Accreditation

Example of content relevant to Accreditation• A link to a forward

planning toolkit produced by South West Museums Federation…..

Example of content relevant to Accreditation• A link to a volunteer

Management – Good Practice checklist uploaded by Renaissance South East

www.collectionslink.org.uk

• 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

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

Groups

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

Work with us

Come and say hi at stand 14 and find out what we can do together:

Collections TrustNow based at the NHM!

Booking open for OpenCulture 2012

www.collectionstrust.org.uk www.collectionslink.org.ukwww.culturegrid.org.uk@collectiontrust

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