Regional Archivist

• Main Authors: National Park Service, Greg Mcdonald, Senior Curator, Mary Merryman, Diane Nicholson, Paul Rogers
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Crater Lake; Orca
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.232.4258; http://www.nps.gov/history/history/online_books/orca/orca_mmp.pdf

This museum management plan for the museum and archival collections at Oregon Caves National Monument (ORCA) identifies the key collection management issues facing the park, and presents a series of recommendations to address those issues. This plan was developed by a team of experienced museum and archival collections management professionals working in cooperation with the park management team and staff. Although Oregon Caves National Monument has an agreement with Crater Lake National Park (CRLA) for the CRLA curator to manage the ORCA collections, concerns about day-to-day management exist. These could be corrected by well-worked Role and Function Statements, development of internal protocols for collections development, and an updated Scope of Collection Statement. The current collection seems rather small for an over 100-year-old park which has a very active research and collecting program. Many research materials, including specimens, are located in other private, state, and