Wesleyan University Collections Advisory Committee records

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 1000-071

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Contents of the collection include meeting minutes, correspondence and working documents (including studies of the collections of the Davison Art Center, musical instruments, Freeman Center for East Asian Studies, and museum/ethnographic collections), and a copy of the final report.

Dates

Creation: 1997

Creator

Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.) (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

University records - Copyright held by Wesleyan University; all other copyright is retained by the creator - In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted

Biographical / Historical

Michael Casey was a 1981 graduate of Harvard Univeristy, earning a B.A. in Irish History and literature and spent over 30 years in college advancement.

The Wesleyan Collections Advisory Committee was a task force formed of faculty, administrators, and alumni/ae in the museum fields, who were charged to “oversee an in-depth review of Wesleyan’s collections of art and material culture…” The committee, along with several, consultants, met several times in 1997, created overviews of existing collections, and submitted its final report on November 7, 1997.