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<p>[QUOTE="mirana, post: 10472527, member: 79705"]Ehhh universities are all a little different depending on funding and funding for higher ed is way wayyyyy down. Like, criminally down. So I highly doubt they will have a position for this. </p><p><br /></p><p>They will probably make it the additional purview of someone at their museum, even though it's not art, OR they will add it to whomever is head of their history or anthropology/archeology departments. I've been in the archival areas of three different schools. My private college had a staff member of the library who was head of special gifts like this, and they were only stored and not on display. The two others were archeology departments at state universities and those were overseen by professors and student interns/grad students. Again, not displayed, barely catalogued (ie "Box #123 Sherds or Box #23 Drawings), and not photographed.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="mirana, post: 10472527, member: 79705"]Ehhh universities are all a little different depending on funding and funding for higher ed is way wayyyyy down. Like, criminally down. So I highly doubt they will have a position for this. They will probably make it the additional purview of someone at their museum, even though it's not art, OR they will add it to whomever is head of their history or anthropology/archeology departments. I've been in the archival areas of three different schools. My private college had a staff member of the library who was head of special gifts like this, and they were only stored and not on display. The two others were archeology departments at state universities and those were overseen by professors and student interns/grad students. Again, not displayed, barely catalogued (ie "Box #123 Sherds or Box #23 Drawings), and not photographed.[/QUOTE]
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