New Jersey Department of State (New Jersey State Museum)

The New Jersey State Museum will improve the current functionality and future accessibility of its collections management database by hiring four contract collections technicians. The museum's collection holdings are comprised of approximately 3,000,000 specimens, artifacts, and objects. Given the size and variety of these collections, the need for a fully-functional, useable collections management database is critical to the stewardship, exhibition, research, and interpretive uses of these artifacts. The collections technicians will assist in reviewing, analyzing and repairing electronic collections records that were migrated to an alternate database system; establishing a standardized protocol for data entry; and analyzing long term needs. Successful completion of this year-long pilot project will result in providing the museum's curators and registrars efficient access to verified, correct information for more than 8,300 existing but unreliable object records in the collections management database.