Other Services

Inspection Reports

Before undertaking any changes to your Collections Management systems, it might be wise to have a full inspection of your collections.

Our services include:

• Inspecting your collections thoroughly, highlighting of any areas that require immediate attention.
• Examining your policies and procedures, and your accessioning, cataloguing, digitisation, conservation and storage processes.
• Generating a report analysing your current Collections Management situation, with recommendations for improvements, and practical information on how to proceed, including timescales and costs. 

Inventories

Regular inventories will ensure that your collections are kept in order.

Our services include:

• Designing an inventory timetable to suit your collections and schedule.
• Preparing inventory paperwork from your collection catalogue.
• Carrying out regular inventory checks of your collections.
• Identifying and locating missing items.
• Carrying out condition checks to highlight and resolve any damage occurring.

Libraries

If you have a large collection of books, imagine how much easier it would be if they were all organised, catalogued and labelled, just like in a library. 

Our services include:

• Designing a shelving system to suit your book colection, making it easy to find the books you need. 
• Creating a computer database catalogue to record all the required informtion about each book. This can include digital scans of the cover, or even the entire book.
• Labelling and covering your books to keep them in order and protected from damage. 

Exhibition Research and Design

New exhibitions are not just important to attract visitors to museums, they can also illustrate the heritage of clubs and societies or the achievements of businesses.

Our services include:

• Researching and designing of new exhibitions.
• Fabricating and installing new exhibitions, using archival quality materials.

Policies and Procedures

It is important that all policies and procedures are clearly documented so that whoever manages your collections in the future understands what to do and how to do it.

Our services include:

• Designing and implementing Collections Management policies: Collecting Policy, Disposal Policy, Loan Policy etc.
• Writing SOPs for Collections Management systems: accessioning, cataloguing, digitisation, conservation and storage etc.

Disaster Planning

Nobody wants to think about the worst case scenario, but it is necessary to plan for what you will do if one day you suffer a catastrophic event such as flood or fire.

Our services include:

• Writing your Disaster Plan, custom-made to suit your collections and situation: which objects to rescue first; contact details of people to assist; emergency treatment of different types of object etc.
• Providing all the essential equipment and supplies to create a Disaster Kit.

Training and Servicing

Even after a project is completed, we will continue to provide all the support you require.

Our services include:

• Training you on how to use your new Collections Management systems.
• Providing on-site servicing to assist with any issues that may arise or changes that you require.
• Working with your web designers to get your catalogue published on your website.

See Example Projects for more details on what we can do.