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Deaccessioning<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Deaccessioning is when objects and art in museums are permanently and formally removed from the museum\u2019s collections. [Columbia Library Journals<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah. Noted in “This go-to term for teamwork is now a no-no for the snobbery police<\/em><\/a>,” Mark Lasswell, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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It is historical societies, though, that seem especially intent on deeming \u201csociety\u201d unfit for society.\u00a0Since the 2000s<\/a>, they\u2019ve been madly deaccessioning the word \u2014 the Chicago Historical Society became the\u00a0Chicago History Museum<\/a>; the Colorado Historical Society became\u00a0History Colorado<\/a>; the Fairfield Historical Society in Connecticut became the\u00a0Fairfield Museum and History Center<\/a>; and the Ohio Historical Society became the\u00a0Ohio History Connection<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Stretching deaccessioning<\/em> out a bit, perhaps, but it’s understandable in context. Although, much like got<\/em>, a word for which has<\/em> is both a substitute and much more graceful, it’s awfully klunky, and leaves me wondering if, once again like got, if some other word has the same meaning and renders deaccessioning<\/em> superfluous.<\/p>\n

Try saying deaccessioning<\/em> five times fast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Deaccessioning: Deaccessioning is when objects and art in museums are permanently and formally removed from the museum\u2019s collections. [Columbia Library Journals] Ah. Noted in “This go-to term for teamwork is now a no-no for the snobbery police,” Mark Lasswell, WaPo: It is historical societies, though, that seem especially intent on \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41864,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41863\/revisions\/41864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}