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April 18th, 2003
Exciting news at the Spurlock Museum! We at last have a scale suitable
for use with our coin collection. After years of searching for a scale that
fits
a museum budget, one of our own volunteers came to the rescue. Martha
Landis, who works in the Registration section, purchased and donated a coin
scale
to be used for weighing the Museum’s coins and other small artifacts.
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Martha, a retired librarian,
has been very active in the Museum. She has worked in the Registration
section for five years starting when the
Museum
was still in Lincoln Hall and helping us make the move to the new building.
Martha works three days a week mainly on keeping databases up-to-date
and accurate. She also serves as Secretary for the Spurlock Museum
Board of Directors.
Martha is a great asset to the Registration section and the Museum
as a whole, and we are glad to have her working with us.
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Ray Shepardson, another volunteer,
has worked for the past 18 months with our coin collection. He began by identifying
and inventorying the entire collection, which includes more than 7000 coins.
After inventory was complete, he started measuring the coins. For items to
be completely catalogued, each must be measured and weighed. We did not have
a scale accurate enough for artifacts weighing only a few grams, so he could
only measure while waiting and hoping for a coin scale.
Martha, who works in our General
Workroom with Ray, heard about our troubles and knowing how important weights
are to the accuracy of our database, she
filled the gap. In two weeks, we had a scale for Ray; he is delighted
with its accuracy and ease of use! Another weight has been lifted from the
Museum’s
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