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We certainly use SHIC, and I suspect quite a few other museums do too.
We use SHIC when we catalogue objects, which means (in theory) that we can
search for objects according to SHIC number rather than the more subjective
'simple name' or other text categories.
Objects in our social history store are organised (mainly!) according to
their SHIC category, but obviously it would be possible to order objects in
another way.
Maggie Wood
Keeper of Social History
Warwickshire Museum Service
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Hi All,
having audited all our collections recently, we were discussing whether is
is useful to still give every object a SHIC code (or two) any more. Our
department were dedicated SHIC users in the past and the store, library and
files are all organised according to it. But does anyone use it any more?
Is there a future for it? Is there anyone discussing these issues that we
can get involved with?
Ideas welcome
Sinead Byrne
Birmingham History Curator
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
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