Hi Sarah,

 

At the Philadelphia Museum of Art, we currently have five categories for Loan Purpose, which include the following:

 

• Incoming Long-Term Loan
• Incoming Special Exhibition
• Installation
• Outgoing Loan
• Outgoing Loan (Long-Term)

 

For Loan Type, we break it down to the Curatorial Departments, including one specified for Special Exhibitions, as well as one for Archives.

 

I hope this is helpful.

 

All my best to you and your colleagues…

Linda

 

 

Dear Sarah

 

Here at the National Gallery, we use the following Loan Purposes:

• Long Loan In
• Short Loan Out
• Exhibition Loan In
• Long Loan Out
• Temporary Deposit

 

Long loans in and out are exactly that: long-term loans, usually for display alongside a permanent collection.

 

Short loans out are our loan out equivalent of Exhibition loans in: short-term loans, usually for display in a temporary exhibition.

 

We don’t use Loan Type.

 

Best wishes

 

Rupert

 

 

 

Hello TMS users!

 

I am in the process of reviewing our workflow of the Loans module.  I wondered if anyone was willing to share some screenshots, or list of terms used for Loan Purpose and Loan Type.  Ours is a bit inconsistent so I would love to see how other museums establish these authority fields.

 

Thanks!

Best Regards,

Sarah L. Gillis assistant registrar, image management

WORCESTER ART MUSEUM 
55 Salisbury St. / Worcester, MA 01609
508.793.4427  /  worcesterart.org

 

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