To all of the archaeologists out there, especially those in
          colleges and universities with large (and separated from the
          usual museum) or small anthropology and archaeology
          collections:  what percentage of the people hired to care
          for those objects have actually been trained in
          museum collections management and preventive conservation
          techniques?  I don't mean people who are archaeologists
          or anthropologists and have been curating the collections by
          default (or whatever) for x-number of years--but people who
          are trained to do museum work, with a museum studies degree
          or through various extensive training workshops, etc.
 
          And to the relevant museums, what percentage of the people
          working in the collections aspect of your institution are
          archaeologists by training, still working in the field, and
          hired to foster the communication between archaeologists and
          curators/collections managers?
 
          It seems to me that this collaboration between professions
          could easily at least BEGIN to bridge the communications
          gap.  We all just need to get over ourselves and try
          something different...a new paradigm in curation (did I
          actually say paradigm??)
 
          Jennifer Schansberg
          National Park Service, NAGPRA program intern
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          Phone:   202-343-1882
 
forwarded by:
 
William H. Adams
P.O. Box 1177
Philomath, OR 97370-1177  USA
503-929-3102       -3264 fax
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