I’m making a little headway with
getting our curators to use TMS for their projects rather than making up their
own databases and spreadsheets. A couple have asked me if they can use TMS as
a planning tool for a deaccession project. They want something more than just
an object package that they can put object records into as a way of grouping
and considering things that they might want to recommend for deaccessioning.
Naturally, I want to encourage them to use
TMS more and more, so I was thinking maybe of encouraging them to make an
exhibition record, maybe using the venue features to include or exclude things
from active consideration without actually removing it from the table too far.
What do you all think? Is there a better
suggestion? It seems like this could get muddy, but it’s about the best
I could imagine.
Thanks for any suggestions and advice!
David
Registrar for Collections
telephone: 713-639-7824
fax: 713-639-7780