Program

Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects

Period of Performance

1/1/2004 - 6/30/2005

Funding Totals

$4,638.00 (approved)
$4,638.00 (awarded)


Needs Assessment Survey for New York State Museum's Anthropology Collections Documentation

FAIN: PA-50225-04

University of the State of New York (Albany, NY 12203-5156)
Penelope B. Drooker (Project Director: May 2003 to October 2004)

Consultation with an archivist to conduct a preservation needs assessment of the accession files and other collections-related documentation for 3,000 ethnographic objects and two million archaeological artifacts (9000 BCE to CE 1930) housed in the New York State Museum Anthropology Collection, systematically collected since 1843.