21 Oct
2010
21 Oct
'10
12:17 p.m.
I'd like
to hear more about what constitutes "cataloging", as I'm a
n00b in this respect.
Just what it sounds like. :-)
When an item comes into the collection, it is assigned an accession
number; the standard is yyyy.nnn.mmm, where nnn represents order in
which the item came in in year yyyy, and mmm is the individual number
of each piece that makes up the item. If a piece is made up of
parts (say a tea set, for example) a letter can be suffixed to the
piece number for each part to make it possible to keep them associated
even if physically apart. Leading zeroes should be used in the item
and piece numbers.