Executive Office of the State of Maine (Maine State Museum)

The Maine State Museum, in consultation with the Maine State Library, Maine State Archives, and the Maine Historical Preservation Commission, will create the first long-range plan for the management of the museum's collections, institutional records, and reference resources comprising its archives. The museum will conduct a survey of the archives to determine the overall scope of these collections, as well as their particular strengths and weaknesses, resulting in collections assessment and preservation recommendations to support a detailed written plan for the future of the archival segment of the State museum's collection. Additionally, this plan will allow for a much better understanding of the collection practices of other state institutions, and how the museum can leverage those practices in its own activities. This plan represents the first attempt in Maine's history to coordinate, and define in writing, the collecting work of these state agencies in relation to one another.