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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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History Museums Would Be Lost Without This Book
When I started in the museum field over seven years ago, I initially found Nomenclature confusing and cumbersome. Now that I have cataloged thousands of objects using the system, I can think of no other way. To catalog for five different institutions using Nomenclature allowed for continuity and opened my mind to new terms and classifications. Science and history, in...
Published on December 13, 2000
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Dot matrix printing??? seriously??
Don't get me wrong; the content is fine, and very useful, but does it really have to be so hard to look at?
Published on November 9, 2007 by nfidel
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
History Museums Would Be Lost Without This Book,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging: A Revised and Expanded Version of Robert G. Chenhall's System for Classifying Man-Made Objects (American Association for State and Local History) (Hardcover)
When I started in the museum field over seven years ago, I initially found Nomenclature confusing and cumbersome. Now that I have cataloged thousands of objects using the system, I can think of no other way. To catalog for five different institutions using Nomenclature allowed for continuity and opened my mind to new terms and classifications. Science and history, in essence, meet.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Dot matrix printing??? seriously??,
By nfidel (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging: A Revised and Expanded Version of Robert G. Chenhall's System for Classifying Man-Made Objects (American Association for State and Local History) (Hardcover)
Don't get me wrong; the content is fine, and very useful, but does it really have to be so hard to look at?
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Needs an update,
By ADP (Washington, DC USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Revised Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging: A Revised and Expanded Version of Robert G. Chenhall's System for Classifying Man-Made Objects (Hardcover)
As a museum cataloger, I've now worked with Chenhall's system in several contexts, and on both 19th and 20th century museum collections. The system is great for the former (especially with its specialized vocabulary for wood, metal, and agricultural tools) but needs an update to be more useful for the latter. I used to work on the Park Service's Vietnam Veterans Memorial Collection, and we found ourselves inventing new terms frequently (although we were still able to use the item-purpose taxonomy).
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