About the event

Date: 9 April 2016
Location: Mary Poppins Building, Maryborough

Full day workshop (Part 1) with Lisa Jones.

Topics covered included:

• The Devil is in the Detail: The principles of good collection management practice
  • Museum policies
  • Collection management paperwork
    
    
• Organised Collections: The principles of good collection documentation practice
  • Cataloguing materials
  • Storage systems
  • Classification systems
  • Object handling
  • Object numbering systems

About Lisa Jones

Lisa Jones is the Curator, Queensland Police Museum and has over 30 years’ experience in the museum sector. Lisa is a past President of Museums Australia Queensland and Brisbane History Group, has sat on the board of M&G QLD and Brisbane’s Living Heritage Network.

Acknowledgements

The Community Heritage Grants program is funded by the Australian Government through the National Library of Australia; the Ministry for the Arts; the National Archives of Australia; the National Film and Sound Archive and the National Museum of Australia.