Pinnacles National Monument: Museum Management Plan

DeRooy, Carola; Hunter, Gay; Leatherman, Tom; Nicholson, Diane

The Museum Management Plan for Pinnacles National Monument (PINN) identifies the museum management issues facing the park and presents recommendations to address these issues. A survey of the park staff was conducted to determine current information and program support needs. A team of museum management professionals developed this plan in full cooperation with the staff responsible for managing park archives, museum collections, and library resources.Despite the age and maturity of the park, the archives, library, and museum collections remain in a developmental phase and are stored in an historic structure with many deficiencies as outlined in the park's Checklist. These park-specific resources lack status and definition, and are thus not efficiently contributing to park operations. This could be corrected by well-worked role and function statements, development of internal protocols for collections development, a revised Scope of Collection Statement, and active management by journeyman-level professional staff. All of the park museum collections and library need to be centralized under a single position for efficient management. The locations of park property in other private, state, and federal institutions need to be identified, and park resources need to be inventoried and documented through approved NPS catalog systems. This Museum Management Plan offers recommendations for actions designed to take the park archives, library, and museum collections through a developmental phase that will provide for the basic documentation, preservation, and management of these park-specific resources.

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