User talk:Stangs531/sandbox

Sarah,

I think this is a good beginning to a Wikipedia article as it is concise, neutral, and follows good style guidelines, providing a good basic overview of what a registrar does. It is definitely a collections role that needs its own page on Wikipedia as it is instrumental to the operations of certain cultural institutions despite its overlaps with other roles (i.e. curator, collections manager, etc.).

I like that you included the information about upholding a museum’s Collection Policy, as this is a key aspect of being a registrar and should be mentioned. Similar to Richard, I also liked your inclusion of the disaster-recovery plan link in your “See also” section, but I do not think that you discussed a registrar's role in disaster planning in your article. If you wanted to develop this article further, I think that this and risk management is definitely a topic you could expand on. Additionally, I like that you mentioned the ethical and legal issues registrars face and think that you could probably add 'provenance' and 'copyright' to your “See also” section so readers could do further research. The only other thing I might do is use the word “preventive conservation” in your storage section as it seems to be a key word in registrar/conservation terminology. Lastly to be a Feature article, you will need to add an image at some point. Overall, though, I think it is a good start! Mmarley3 (talk) 20:02, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

Registrar Review
Hi Sarah, I think this is a good attempt to cover a museum position that can mean many different things to different institutions. I think that your definition relates mostly to small museums that do not have more specialized staff. You use the term "registrar" and "collections manager" interchangeably, and these two roles can be very different. There could also be IT staff that manages the CIMS. Perhaps the term registrar should focus on the registration aspects of the role with a separate section on registrars larger role in some museums, but then again perhaps that will not due justice to this important role. Alas, the ambiguity of collection roles! All in all, I thought you did a good job of trying to tackle this.AllisonMaryMartin (talk) 20:53, 3 March 2014 (UTC)