Deacession

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Deakcession (from Latin de "away from" and accedere "to come", "to grow") denotes the segregation, reduction, adjustment, dismantling or disposal of holdings or collections in a library , archive or museum . Deacession is thus a type of inventory or collection adjustment and thus describes the opposite process of accession ( acquisition , access).

Reasons and Criteria for Deacession

Regular cleaning up of the inventory is increasingly recognized in libraries, museums and archives as recurring work that is subject to certain rules and should be documented.

The reasons for the deacession are:

  • content obsolescence (loss of topicality)
  • physical defects (damage, wear and tear, paper disintegration )
  • unsatisfactory frequency of use
  • Lack of space
  • Reduction of duplicates

The regular deauthorization of books , media , archive material or collection items prevents the library or archive holdings or the collection of a museum from becoming less attractive.

The segregation of holdings or collection items has the consequence that:

  • the inventory / collection becomes clearer
  • Space is created for books, archive materials or objects that are worth preserving
  • the inventory looks more well-kept (affects the open access area of ​​a library)
  • it is easier to orientate yourself in a smaller portfolio

Forms of Deacession

In the museum
  • Return to the donor or lender,
  • Exchange,
  • Use for other uses in your own museum ( museum education , event , spare part, etc.),
  • Sale,
  • final disposal (destruction).
In the library
In the archive
  • Cassation (destruction of documents that are not considered archivable),
  • Exchange,
  • possibly sale.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Czubatynski: business organization. Conservation, Central Cataloging, Cassation: The Problem of Separation . In: Library Service . tape 38 , no. January 12 , 2004, ISSN  2194-9646 , p. 1612 , doi : 10.1515 / bd.2004.38.12.1612 ( degruyter.com [accessed on March 5, 2020]).

literature

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  • Rainer Plappert: Deaquisition of media - a component of modern inventory management in academic libraries . - in: Praxishandbuch Bibliotheksmanagement / Ed. by Griebel, Rolf; Schäffler, Hildegard; Söllner, Konstanze. - Berlin [u. a.]: de Gruyter Saur, 2014. 978-3-11-030326-1 pp. 280-292.
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