MDA is pleased to announce that Standards in Museum Care of Collections series are now available from the Collections Link website at:
http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/conserve_objects/standards_colls_car e The series was originally published in the 1990s by the Museums and Galleries Commission (MGC), now the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) and cover: * Archaeological Collections; * Biological Collections; * Geological Collections; * Larger and Working Objects; * Touring Exhibitions; * Photographic Collections; * Musical Instrument Collections; * Costume and Textile Collections. Updates to those on Geological Collections (ed. Mick Stanley, 2004), and Musical Instruments (ed.Patricia Andrew, 2005) replace the earlier versions. Both standards were revised to reflect changes in current best practice, legislation and health and safety regulations. They are equally applicable to small local collections or national museums with a huge variety and number of objects. They include advice on a wide range of curatorial tasks from conservation, disaster planning and environmental control to access, loans and research, and include sections linking to sources of further advice and information. Peter Winsor, Collections Link Project Director, commented: "The Standards in the Museum Care of Collections series is still widely regarded as the best source of information on the conservation and care of different types of collection. We are delighted to be able to make these revisions available via Collections Link, and it is hoped that revisions of other publications in the series will follow." The revised standards join a range of new resources on the website. Also recently added is a section on Emergency Planning highlighting resources from outside the cultural sector: http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/plan_for_emergencies and the London Screen Archives guide to caring for moving image collections: http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/special_collection/photo_film Gordon. ******************************************************* Gordon McKenna e-mail: gordon at mda.org.uk MDA The Spectrum Building, The Michael Young Centre, Purbeck Road Cambridge CB2 2PD, UK Tel: +44 1223 415760 Fax: +44 1223 415960 Setting the standard for managing collections information *************** http://www.mda.org.uk/ ****************
