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Hello list!

For a project, I am seeking examples of two or more independent organizations that manage their collections jointly (or some iteration of this idea).

This joint management might involve sharing one or more of the below activities or functions:

• Sharing a leased storage space (one museum owns, leases to or shares space with another organization - or two organizations share an un-owned space)
• Sharing a collection management system (database)
• Sharing a community exhibition venue and mounting joint exhibitions (not a rotating schedule of "one organization at a time")
• Sharing staff
• Sharing a regional emergency response plan, or writing such a plan in a regional coalition
• Pooling contracts for services such as insurance, pest management, security, housekeeping, etc. 

I am not necessarily interested in federated web-publishing of collections such as ContentDM or Omeka. 

If you work somewhere that engages in any of these shared practices, or know of any organizations that do participate in any of the above (or something similar), iId like to have  a short phone conversation with you about how that works.

Feel free to respond on or off list.

Erin

Erin Richardson Consulting

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Hi Erin,

You might reach out to staff at the Autry and LACMA, as those two museums recently entered into a collections sharing agreement. (See related story: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-lacma-autry-partnership-20180109-story.html)

Best wishes for your proposal

Elizabeth

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Elizabeth Merritt
VP Strategic Foresight & Founding Director, CFM
American Alliance of Museums
Arlington VA
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-27-2018 09:08 AM
From: Erin Richardson
Subject: Seeking examples of museums managing collections jointly

Hello list!

For a project, I am seeking examples of two or more independent organizations that manage their collections jointly (or some iteration of this idea).

This joint management might involve sharing one or more of the below activities or functions:

• Sharing a leased storage space (one museum owns, leases to or shares space with another organization - or two organizations share an un-owned space)
• Sharing a collection management system (database)
• Sharing a community exhibition venue and mounting joint exhibitions (not a rotating schedule of "one organization at a time")
• Sharing staff
• Sharing a regional emergency response plan, or writing such a plan in a regional coalition
• Pooling contracts for services such as insurance, pest management, security, housekeeping, etc. 

I am not necessarily interested in federated web-publishing of collections such as ContentDM or Omeka. 

If you work somewhere that engages in any of these shared practices, or know of any organizations that do participate in any of the above (or something similar), iId like to have  a short phone conversation with you about how that works.

Feel free to respond on or off list.

Erin

Erin Richardson Consulting

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LinkedIn

607.386.1685

When it comes to sharing digital collections and archives College Women is a great example of shared digital space. 

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College Women The Seven Sisters colleges announce the completion of a two year grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. College Women: Documenting the History of Women in Higher Education funded the digitization of a wealth of student letters, diaries, scrapbooks and photographs. View this on Open Access Portal >

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LaNeshe Miller-White
Marketing Manager
Interactive Mechanics
Philadelphia PA
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-27-2018 09:08 AM
From: Erin Richardson
Subject: Seeking examples of museums managing collections jointly

Hello list!

For a project, I am seeking examples of two or more independent organizations that manage their collections jointly (or some iteration of this idea).

This joint management might involve sharing one or more of the below activities or functions:

• Sharing a leased storage space (one museum owns, leases to or shares space with another organization - or two organizations share an un-owned space)
• Sharing a collection management system (database)
• Sharing a community exhibition venue and mounting joint exhibitions (not a rotating schedule of "one organization at a time")
• Sharing staff
• Sharing a regional emergency response plan, or writing such a plan in a regional coalition
• Pooling contracts for services such as insurance, pest management, security, housekeeping, etc. 

I am not necessarily interested in federated web-publishing of collections such as ContentDM or Omeka. 

If you work somewhere that engages in any of these shared practices, or know of any organizations that do participate in any of the above (or something similar), iId like to have  a short phone conversation with you about how that works.

Feel free to respond on or off list.

Erin

Erin Richardson Consulting

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LinkedIn

607.386.1685

Hi Erin,
The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art at SUNY New Paltz is the lead organization managing collections jointly with the Center for Photography at Woodstock,  the Women's Studio Workshop, the Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, and the Woodstock Artists Association & Museum.

Here's the website Hudson Valley Visual Art Collections Consortium and here's a way to contact the Dorsky staff,especially Wayne Lempka and Sara Pasti: The Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art | SUNY New Paltz .

Hope this helps. Ward

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Ward Mintz
New York NY
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-27-2018 09:08 AM
From: Erin Richardson
Subject: Seeking examples of museums managing collections jointly

Hello list!

For a project, I am seeking examples of two or more independent organizations that manage their collections jointly (or some iteration of this idea).

This joint management might involve sharing one or more of the below activities or functions:

• Sharing a leased storage space (one museum owns, leases to or shares space with another organization - or two organizations share an un-owned space)
• Sharing a collection management system (database)
• Sharing a community exhibition venue and mounting joint exhibitions (not a rotating schedule of "one organization at a time")
• Sharing staff
• Sharing a regional emergency response plan, or writing such a plan in a regional coalition
• Pooling contracts for services such as insurance, pest management, security, housekeeping, etc. 

I am not necessarily interested in federated web-publishing of collections such as ContentDM or Omeka. 

If you work somewhere that engages in any of these shared practices, or know of any organizations that do participate in any of the above (or something similar), iId like to have  a short phone conversation with you about how that works.

Feel free to respond on or off list.

Erin

Erin Richardson Consulting

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LinkedIn

607.386.1685

Hello Erin-
my organization, Leach Botanical Garden, and our sister organization, Hoyt Arboretum, here in Portland share a license for our Iris BG  botanical collection software.   We have done so for about 5 years.  We were the first institutions in the US to adopt Iris BG as a collection management tool.  Our Gardener/Curator, Courtney Vengarick, manages the database at our end. 

I hope that helps.

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David Porter
Executive Director
Leach Botanical Garden
Portland OR
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Original Message:
Sent: 08-27-2018 09:08 AM
From: Erin Richardson
Subject: Seeking examples of museums managing collections jointly

Hello list!

For a project, I am seeking examples of two or more independent organizations that manage their collections jointly (or some iteration of this idea).

This joint management might involve sharing one or more of the below activities or functions:

• Sharing a leased storage space (one museum owns, leases to or shares space with another organization - or two organizations share an un-owned space)
• Sharing a collection management system (database)
• Sharing a community exhibition venue and mounting joint exhibitions (not a rotating schedule of "one organization at a time")
• Sharing staff
• Sharing a regional emergency response plan, or writing such a plan in a regional coalition
• Pooling contracts for services such as insurance, pest management, security, housekeeping, etc. 

I am not necessarily interested in federated web-publishing of collections such as ContentDM or Omeka. 

If you work somewhere that engages in any of these shared practices, or know of any organizations that do participate in any of the above (or something similar), iId like to have  a short phone conversation with you about how that works.

Feel free to respond on or off list.

Erin

Erin Richardson Consulting

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LinkedIn

607.386.1685