Open Access<b>Freda Matassa.</b> <i>Museum Collections Management: A Handbook.</i> London: Facet Publishing, 2011. 258p. ISBN 978-1-85604-701-2. $110.
Author(s) -
Patti Gibbons
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
rbm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2150-668X
pISSN - 1529-6407
DOI - 10.5860/rbm.13.1.371
Subject(s) - publishing , scope (computer science) , library science , management , media studies , sociology , political science , law , computer science , economics , programming language
Writing from the United Kingdom, Freda Matassa prepared her textbook Museum Collections Management: A Handbook as a text for museum professionals and students in British classrooms, yet the clearly laid out information is equally relevant to a range of different types of cultural heritage institutions outside England. In the first part of her book, Matassa covers big-picture issues and defines the scope of collection management, before introducing day-to-day collection management activities in the second part of the text. Her treatment covers the full scope of collection management including registrarial responsibilities as well as physical collection care duties.As a central . . .