Dear List, Whenever "assigning accesion numbers" pops up, there has always been a lack of concensus due to institutional needs etc. At any rate, I thought I'd post this question coming from a previous museum background where there was no "promised gift" per se, just full acquisition. For our collections, I have been assigning accession numbers to our promised gifts as a loan number prefixed with a "P". Recently, a "promised gift" has been formally accessioned into the collection. Do we retain the "promised gift" accession number with a "P" or do we assign a whole new, formal accession number while retaining the older number in brackets? Perhaps issues related to accession numbers, and a possible unified approach, is now a more pertinent issue amongst museum studies /archives programs... Insight and advice would be most appreciated on or off list. All the best, Farris Wahbeh Collections and Exhibitions Coordinator Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>