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Title:
  • A legal primer on managing museum collections / Marie C. Malaro.
Call No:
  • AM121
  • .M35 1998
Source of Acquisition:
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services & Partners,
  • gift,
  • 16 Jul 2009,
  • 2009.39.14.
Author:
Edition: 2nd ed.
Imprint Place:
  • Washington, D.C. ; London :
Publisher/Printer:
  • Smithsonian Institution Press,
Imprint Date:
  • 1998.
Physical Description:
  • xx, 507 p. :
  • forms ;
  • 27 cm.
Accession No:
  • 2009.39.14.
Provenance:
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services & Partners,
Notes:
  • Distributed as part of the Connecting to Collections Bookshelf sponsored by the Institute for Museum & Library Services.
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • Ch. 1. What is a museum? What is required of its board members? -- Ch. 2. Museums are accountable to whom? -- Ch. 3. Collection management policies --Ch. 4. The acquisition of objects: accessioning -- Ch. 5. The disposal of objects: deaccessioning -- Ch. 6. Loans: incoming and outgoing -- Ch. 7. Unclaimed loans -- Ch. 8. International loans -- Ch. 9. Objects left in the temporary custody of the museum -- Ch. 10. Objects found in the collections -- Ch. 11. Promised gifts -- Ch. 12. Tax considerations relevant to gifts -- Ch. 13. Appraisals and authentications -- Ch. 14. Care of collections -- Ch. 15. Insurance -- Ch. 16. Access to the collections -- Ch. 17. Visitor and employee safety as it relates to collections. App. A. Convention on the means of prohibiting and preventing the illicit import, export, and transfer of ownership of cultural property, adopted by the General Conference, UNESCO, at its sixteenth session, Paris, November 14, 1970 -- App. B. Title III of Public Law 97-446: Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act -- App. C. Curation of federally owned and administered archaeological collections -- App. D. 22 U.S.C. [actual symbol not reproducible] 2459: Immunity from Seizure Statute -- App. E. Public Law 94-158: Arts and Artifacts Indemnity Act, as Amended.
  • Located on COLLECTIONS CARE SHELF
Location:
  • Reading Room
  • MARC Values: