May 22nd || The PastPerfect Database—a software where the art collection the museum (or school) has is archived. Currently, the database needs to be revisited and reedit since either the collections such as Oscar Bluemner’s work has been filed in a different home location or, photographs of the art piece must be added in the database for it can be easier for the curator and staff members to know how the piece looks like. Then, in the end of the week, Tonya and I met with Susan Ryan–dean of duPont-Ball Library– to discuss a future digital archive in the library’s page for Oscar Bluemner from the Vera Bluemner Kouba Collection.
Don’t forget about the article from the book Registrars on Record ( Case, Mary) “What Registrars do all Day” pages 13-33
This is a great overview of all the things a trained Registrar might do in a large museum.