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Presumably the group might also consider surveys, conservation, deaccession, access, security and other contest of your Collection Management Policy. Acquisitions sometimes lures board members into a false sense of a narrow remit like "we just decide what to add to the collection" and not any of the other hard work like assessment, evaluation, deaccession, disposal, loans, etc
We have at times in this committee discussed things beyond specific acquisitions, deaccessions, and loans
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In the beginning that committee was called the Acquisitions Committee and it mostly discussed proposed accessions/deaccessions. Currently, that committee is called the Permanent Collection Committee and its mandate includes oversight of the breadth of Collection management in addition to its previous responsibilities
Hi Lauren, At my current museum, we call this committee the Collections Committee (we discuss accessions/deaccessions from the permanent collection and report on incoming/outgoing loans)
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