Collections Management in the Age of COVID-19

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Collections Management in the Age of COVID-19," at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

The 2020 pandemic has affected all of us in every detail of our lives, both personal and professional. This session aims to focus on how collections managers have had to adapt to caring for their collections, whether general collections management, accepting new collections, allowing access to those collections, and other aspects of our jobs that we have had to adjust to the 'new normal'. Issues explored are wide-ranging, but include explorations of how people been personally impacted as individuals responsible for collections as well as creative approaches to completing projects despite limited access. We also hope to explore whether time spent during quarantine actually benefited some repositories and museums