Documenting Institutional Milestones and Collections Care Initiatives in the Events module has proven quite rewarding. With a simple query by event type, we can produce illustrated reports representing
a timeline of progress.
Recording Institutional Milestones is admittedly a scrapbooking activity, but it is fun and revealing for the staff to learn notable facts about their museum that would otherwise stay hidden away
in dusty annual reports. “Baby’s first step” moments (including photos) going back to the museum’s founding, both serious and lighthearted. This also serves as a centralized, authoritative resource for PR fact-checking, lecture preparation, etc.
A broad definition of what constitutes a Collections Care event has helped us better recognize and report ongoing progress, which has been invaluable in support of funding requests. Activities
contributing to object preservation (gallery lighting assessments, significant HVAC and security system upgrades, major digitization initiatives, collection housing/inventory projects) are set up in the Event module, in addition to the usual conservation surveys.
Ever have days when you worry your museum is not doing enough in this area? Just run the report, and you’ll feel better.
(Side note: We use the Sites module for documenting all of our buildings and each named space, both historical and current, and would love to see Events and Sites modules linked in future versions
of TMS.)
Frances
Frances R. Francis / Senior Registrar
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, ATLANTA / 1280 Peachtree Street, N.E. / Atlanta, GA 30309
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Subject: Uses for the Events Module
Hello everybody! I’d love to know what people are doings with the Events module. The only thing that anyone has done with ours is to record some old deaccession events, but I am sure there are more creative uses than that!
Fatima Mahdi
Collections Information Specialist/TMS
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
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Richmond, VA 23220-4007
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