A couple of months ago, I was on the shortlisting and interviewing panel for a documentation-related museum job. Although we had some very good applications, the overall standard was worryingly low. It looked as though many applicants hadn’t been told about what makes a good application, so I’d like to offer some advice here.
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The invisibility of museum documentation
I’ve been thinking about museum documentation quite a lot recently. You might say this is unsurprising – after all, I’m paid to manage documentation at the Horniman Museum. But what’s vexed me particularly is the matter of documentation’s invisibility: the way it’s seldom mentioned publicly, despite underpinning everything a museum does.
New website
If you’ve visited my website at all recently, you’ll have noticed that it’s been looking a little tired. I wrote it several years ago as a static site, and unsurprisingly haven’t been keeping it up to date as often as I’d like.