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Introduction This publication is the fourth edition of The Small Museums Cataloguing Manual, a guide to the hands-on process of documenting objects and visual material in heritage collections. Its genesis stretches back more than two decades to work undertaken by Arts Victoria. Trench art at Bendigo RSL Soldiers Memorial Museum.

Although cataloguing has become computerised rather than paper-based, Museums Australia (Victoria) still urges community museums to use paper worksheets as a step in cataloguing their collections on computer. The benefi ts include reasonably fast documentation and quality object records.

As well as containing blank and sample worksheets and a list of useful resources, the appendices include three glossaries to help cataloguers document collection items; they cover materials, production methods and descriptive terms.

The most fundamental reorientation of this revised edition of the manual is its assumption that community and regional museums, as well as individual collectors, will build or will already have built their catalogue electronically – that is, on a computer.