Numbering and Accessioning documents etc 2023
At present, March 2024, we are still finding and numbering quite a few "old" CHS documents and artifacts which do not have numbers written on them (or have not been cataloged at all) so we are still using the 4-digit numbering system we set up in 2023. In time, we should adopt the normal museum numbering system using "Year-Number" (eg 24.0100). Sarah' Number Ledger Sarah has a small handwritten ledger with 1-2 lines per item, in (mostly) numerical order. For example, last week we found a 1935 Arms Academy Yearbook which was not cataloged. So that book gets the next number, 2490. The number is written in pencil in upper left corner of the inner cover, and also entered into Airtable with the book's description and photo(s). Sarah also records any number adjustments, such as re-numering duplicates, in the Number Book. This book stays with Sarah, so that she can be sure the numbers are all entered in sequence. We feel that only one person should be doing th...