West Hawai'i Parks Museum Management Plan: Kaloko-Honokohau, Pu'ukohola Heiau, Pu'uhonua O Honaunau, Ala Kahakai
National Park Service - West Hawai'i Parks Museum Management Planning Team, Bayless J, Bond SC, Bush K, Isaksen M, Mitchell LM, Nicholson D. 2004. West Hawai'i Parks Museum Management Plan: Kaloko-Honokohau, Pu'ukohola Heiau, Pu'uhonua O Honaunau, Ala Kahakai. Museum Collection Management Plan. Seattle, WA
The Museum Management Plan for the combined park units on the west coast of the island of Hawai’i identifies the museum management issues facing all the units, and presents recommendations to address these issues. A survey of the staff from all units was conducted to determine current informational and program support needs. A team of museum management professionals developed this plan in full cooperation with the staff responsible for managing individual park archives, museum collections, and library resources. The combined units are responsible for managing collections totaling more than 428,000 individual items of cultural and natural significance that document the resources and history of the park units. These resources are in the form of archives, museum collections, and resource management library materials. More than 396,000 individual items are currently not cataloged. These resources are expected to grow significantly over the next decade with the use of the Service-wide Inventory and Monitoring Program. Most of these materials are currently being stored under conditions that do not meet Service standards. These conditions include critical lack of space for storage and no space for access to the collections, thus compromising one of their primary values. Serious environmental control deficiencies (climate control and integrated pest management) affect the long term preservation of these resources. The remedial measures scheduled for FY2003 will provide some temporary relief, but no long term solutions. Most of the documentation and preservation problems may be traced to the lack of a well-defined museum management program either individually or aggregately among all units. Professional support for museum management issues has been sporadic and fairly recent, and mostly from the staff at Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park on the east coast of the island of Hawai’i.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- National Park Service - West Hawai'i Parks Museum Management Planning Team; Bayless, Jonathan; Bond, Stanley; Bush, Kent; Isaksen, Mark; Mitchell, Lynn; Nicholson, Diane
- Date of Issue
- 2004-02
- Units
- ALKA , HIST , KAHO , PUHE , PUHO
- Keywords
- Archeology, archive, Archives and Records, Archiving Resource Management Field Records, Collection Storage, Collections, Cultural Resources, ehistory, History, Library, manuscripts, Multi-Park Facility, Museum Documentation, Natural Resources, Photography, Planning, programming, Recommendations, Special Objects, Staffing, standard operating procedure, Suggested Collections Access Policies