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We used to store things in SHIC order, but it became unneccessary when all the locations went on to MODES. It's a lot more efficient to store like with like, both for space and climate. Our locations are identified down to individual shelf on individual bay.
Precisely because they are like with like, we still store print photos and ephemera by SHIC, small sizes in small boxes to 2 decimal points and large and oversize in larger containers to 1 decimal point. These have to be shallow boxes however, to stop the weight of all the Secol and card mounting up.
Christine
Christine Johnstone
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> I use SHIC at North Somerset Museum and have used it in other museums I have worked in. This does provide an additional means of searching for objects on top of the text search (we use Modes which allows a wide variety of searches which is very helpful). The collections are also stored in SHIC order as far as possible, though with the lack of space to fit new objects in it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep the collections in a perfect SHIC order. I will continue to use SHIC for the existing collections but will have to put new objects into spaces available, therefore out of SHIC order. This will mean keeping plans and location codes up to date. I wondered if other museums using SHIC to store collections are having this problem too? I would be interested to know.
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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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