Collection Management
ICS has significant expertise in providing collection management solutions. Our experience includes ensuring compliance with State and Federal legislation, including the Commonwealth Environmental Protection of Biodiversity Act (EPBC) and the NSW Heritage Act (Section 170)
This includes:
- Policy development
- Collection assessment and documentation
- Solutions to improve access
- Digital environment advice
Our range of services include:
Collection management policies
Writing collection management policies covering acquisitions, accessioning, deaccessioning, collection care, disposal, loans, security, access, storage and display
Collection management systems
- Assessment of database solutions including software suitability
- Database development, documentation and management
Collection surveys
- Preservation Needs Assessments
- Conservation / Condition surveys
- Statistical and sample surveys
- Assessment for insurance/valuation purposes
- Significance assessments and statements
- Conservation Plans for movable heritage
Preventive conservation
- Environmental monitoring and assessment
- Advice on preventive conservation
- Collection care and maintenance programs
Disaster preparedness plans
- Disaster preparedness planning
- Emergency retrieval
- Disaster preparedness training
Cataloguing / documentation
- Providing trained personnel for accessioning projects
- Managing cataloguing projects
- Inventory surveys that document object identification, location etc
- Digital documentation
Collection movement
- Collection documentation and relocation
- Collection identification, location, inventory control
- Preparing for removal, packing, transportation
- Writing of technical specifications
Digitisation
- Writing specifications for large and small digitisation projects
- Managing, reviewing and assessing digitisation projects
- Managing cost effective data entry projects
Access - physical and virtual
- Develop innovative access solutions to collections
- Managing data entry projects to increase accessilbility to collections
- Managaing digitisation projects to increase accessibility to collections
- Assessing cultural websites - usability, functionality etc
For further information, please contact Fiona Tennant, Principal Collections Manager or Doug Rogan, Senior Collections Manager
The Collection Management Division of ICS assists our clients with all aspects of the care, management and access to collections. We design and manage projects for and with organisations responsible for cultural collections, including:
- gallery and museum collections
- historical collections
- art collections
- archaeological collections
- archival and library material
We draw upon our registration and conservation skills along with our knowledge of deterioration mechanisms and conservation strategies for most types of art, furniture and historic material to deliver wide-ranging services. Our team has experience in all facets of collection management including:
- Planning - writing specifications for architects and designers to optimise environmental and storage conditions for cultural collections
- Policy developing - collection management policies and guideline documents to implement policies
- Documentation - reviewing, redesigning and managing documentation procedures and systems involved in collection management, such as digitisation procedures and collection management software utilisation
- Information technology - working with IT companies to bring new and relevant technologies to the field of collection management (eg ‘Smart Tags´)
- Registration - managing, surveying and documenting collections including collection/item identification, location and inventory control, accessioning and deaccessioning, loans management
Preventive conservation including:
- preventive conservation strategies
- Preservation Needs Assessment surveys
- collection, conservation and condition surveys
- designing and implementing environmental monitoring programs
- housekeeping manuals
- collection disaster preparedness plans
- risk assessments
- disaster preparedness plans
- training of staff in any of the above activities, utilising existing or newly developed collection management policies or software
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