Collection managers ensure the care and preservation of objects within cultural institutions, like museums, libraries, and archives. Collection managers, along with exhibition curators, and conservators, play a very important role in collections care. They can be found in most large museums.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Evaluating and preserving records for administrative, historical, legal, evidential and other purposes;
(b) Directing or carrying out the preparation of indexes, bibliographies, microfilm copies and other reference aids to the collected material and making them available to users;
(c) Researching the origin, distribution and use of materials and objects of cultural and historical interest;
(d) Organizing, developing and maintaining collections of artistic, cultural, scientific or historically significant items;
(e) Directing or undertaking classification and cataloguing of museum and art gallery collections and organizing exhibitions;
(f) Researching into, appraising, organizing and preserving historically significant and valuable documents such as government papers, private papers, photographs, maps, manuscripts and audiovisual materials;
(g) Preparing scholarly papers and reports;
(h) Planning and implementing the computerized management of archives and electronic records;
(i) Organizing exhibitions at museums and art galleries, publicizing exhibits and arranging special displays for general, specialized or educational interest;
(j) Appraising and acquiring archival materials to build and develop an archival collection for research purposes.