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  • Introduction to Spectrum 5.0
    • Foreword to Spectrum 5.0
    • What's new in Spectrum 5.0?
    • Acknowledgements
  • Frequently-asked questions
  • Spectrum licensing
  • Primary procedures
    • Object entry
    • Acquisition and accessioning
    • Location and movement control
    • Inventory
    • Cataloguing
    • Object exit
    • Loans in (borrowing objects)
    • Loans out (lending objects)
    • Documentation planning
  • All procedures
    • Object entry
    • Acquisition and accessioning
    • Location and movement control
    • Inventory
    • Cataloguing
    • Object exit
    • Loans in (borrowing objects)
    • Loans out (lending objects)
    • Documentation planning
    • Condition checking and technical assessment
    • Collections care and conservation
    • Valuation
    • Insurance and indemnity
    • Emergency planning for collections
    • Damage and loss
    • Deaccessioning and disposal
    • Rights management
    • Reproduction
    • Use of collections
    • Collections review
    • Audit
  • Appendix – information requirements
    • Object information groups
    • Procedural information groups
    • Record management information groups
  • Mapping Spectrum to other standards
  • Spectrum around the world
  • Spectrum Partners
  • ResourcesSpectrum Primary procedures

    Primary procedures

    These are the ones that most museums will use most of the time. UK museums wanting to meet the requirements of the Accreditation scheme will have to demonstrate that they meet, or have a plan to achieve, the Spectrum standard for all nine.

    • Object entry
    • Acquisition and accessioning
    • Location and movement control
    • Inventory
    • Cataloguing
    • Object exit
    • Loans in (borrowing objects)
    • Loans out (lending objects)
    • Documentation planning
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