• Uniformity and flexibility--getting the right balance
• Sonny Trimble's and Terry Childs' survey data are very important for comparative purposes and the establishment of standard costs/units (e.g. $/cubic ft.)
• Staged levels of care
• Factors: staff, volunteers, contractors
• Account for cost savings through deaccession and other program
• Develop multi-agency standard for curation that has staged levels for costs and activities included:
  1. Basic (Acc./Cat./Storage),
  2. Mid-level (Access for research, agencies, and tribes), 3
  3. Advanced (Public use component; produce small mini-travel exhibit to go to agency headquarters, regional offices and public venues)
• Contacts: dwallsmi@westga.edu, bmoe@kpt.nuwa.navy.mil, matthew_wilson@nps.gov

• Focus on Agencies:
  • Develop mechanism to disseminate information about importance of museum programs throughout federal government (Internet application?)
  • Educate organization regarding why the program is valuable to organization
• Lack of Compliance
  • Emphasize individual responsibility of managers
• Top-Down Commitment
  • Requires education of upper management regarding staffing and funding
• Public Pressure (public involvement and support)
  • Identify objects/items of real interest, concern, or value to the public
  • Develop association/foundation to support organization/agency

• Archeology repository needs may differ from needs of other disciplines
• Reduce Redundancy
• Coordinate with Team 1's recommendations from mini-conference
• Develop SAA Curation Committee

• Begins in Field -- need better training for new professionals on importance of records
• Original Records Valued -- use archival methods -- backups, migrate data to new software/hardware; constant upgrades

• Early involvement (total) -- NAGPRA/other collections/international
• Collections Current Level: Federal, Tribal (tribe to tribe), Museum, International
• Identify where consultation is required under law, develop survey, DOI send survey, committee/team evaluate survey, briefing paper, case studies (1) What you would like to be consulted about besides NAGPRA cultural objects and other consultation requirements under law; (2) Process for involvement
• $ for travel (to bring people together and allow consultation) and other (e.g. translators)
• Natives, nationwide, to have some placing on upcoming events and be placed on up-coming agenda

Contacts: Theresa Spears Pechanga, Cheryl Jeffrey (San Diego Museum of Man); Ruben Sandoval, Reid Nelson, Mary McNeil (Department of Agriculture; mary.mcneil@usda.gov); Sue Thorsen, (sue_thorsen@nps.gov); Myra Giesen (mgiesen@do.usbr.gov); Kirsten Collins (kscollins@efdswest.navfac.navy.mil); Ophelin Cruz; Nancy Pearson (npearson@gp.usbr.gov); Karen Benally (Navajo Nation Historic Preservation Dept.; roadprog@cyberport.com).

• Case-by-case Approach

• Endowment Fund
• Incorporate Funding needs into agency budgets and strategic plans
• All of the other interests need funding--we need real costs data to know what to ask for and to give those we are asking an idea of what they will get for their $. As someone "in the trenches," I can start collecting cost data (Mary Collins; collinsm@mail.wsu.edu); How to distribute info? Professional organizations: SHA, SAA, others? Agencies--COE, BRec, others
• Info on budget, endowment formulation, Treasury Dept. regulations, escalation rates, etc. to central web site (St. Louis District?)
• Need SAA curation group for D.C. contact/lobbying (revitalize SAA curation committee)
• AAM session of federal curation--April 25, 1999 (Ron Wilson, Sonny Trimble, Pat Leiggi, Bobbie Ferguson, Jan Bernstein) -- Should we do the same at SAA's 2000 meeting?
• Start at bottom, send budget needs up the chain of command; start at top, provide desire (Accountability)

What should happen next? Who should be involved?--Trust Banker

• Provide the museum with a more broad-based interdisciplinary understanding of collections care:
  1. Contact the Assoc. and Chamber of Commerce and others -- NPR to get on their program to explore contact with public and collections;
  2. Create a list use through the Internet -- problem-solving over the Internet;
  3. Develop case-studies of working with the public;
  4. Create partnerships with the public
• Recommendation: More emphasis in the schools on science processes that are naturally mirrored in collections work. Public Service Announcements on radio--museum collections. Chamber of Commerce. Ecotourism--popularizing.
• Marketing--use the Web
• Worth Saving--value
• Continue outreach programs to schools--Teach, Teach, Teach

• Approaching the general public through non-traditional methods and organizations

• Identify Goals
• Identify Strategies
• Identify one or more organizations to do initial game plan and assume responsibility
• Lobbying vs. non-lobbying professional organizations to involve, e.g. ASC
• Copy good ideas (like those from the campaign for the $40 million flag)

• Federal responsibility
• Work with professional organizations

36 CFR 79 is not flexible or comprehensive enough.

• Inflexibility (addressed in pre-conference workshop)
• Will be posted on the Web
• Non-archeology disciplines have no standards like 36 CFR 79

• Interagency Working Group; Federal and non-federal groups to build critical mass
• How to gain compliance? -- Add penalties
• Legislation to comply care for historic objects, overall museum property
• Legislation for funds to be spend for the care of museum objects

• Lack of resources
• Agency policy not parallel to museum policy; collaborate with AAM
• Not taking in everything

• Very Complex
• How many groups have current written database standards that could be shared to begin to develop consensus? Individual museums/collections.
• Training in databases, demonstrations of software and hardware
• Don't re-invent the wheel--share your DB, What are they? Current software: ACCESS, Dbase, Re:Discovery, FoxPro, ARGUS, Informex, SNAP, Paradox, Multimimsy, Vernon Sys., Gallery Sys (TMS and Embark), Minark, Oracle
• Security--confidentiality of sensitive data
• Conference Workshop--next steps--DOI

• Difficult, arduous, bad guy flavor
• Reinventing Government ideas could help here to reduce redundancy (interagency ombudsman)
• Communicating back to agencies
• Amnesty

1. Explore new NPS natural history collecting permit to all feds -- Knight
2. Contact other organizations (ASC, Registrars, etc.) to see if they would be willing to disseminate draft permits for comment.
3. SPNHC meeting--commitment for at least a day on 1999 program
4. Disseminate info to group members
5. Fact Gathering -U.S. Attorney's office; Management authority Fish and Wildlife--templates, use, and gaps
6. Track progress of OMP (FWS) permit review (T. McIntyre)

Contacts: betty_knight@nps.gov, bright.cheryl@nmnh.si.edu, shelton.sally@nmnh.si.edu, jbrown@sel.barc.usda.gov, nick_valentine@fws.gov, thomas.mcintyre@noaa.gov, Eugenia Apkaw (P.O. Box 361, Sacaton, AZ 85247), Paula Liken (602-644-3422)

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