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An inventory is an itemized list of objects that the museum has accessioned or received via loan(s) and must be physically located by an examiner. A complete, one-hundred percent inventory, or a random inventory of the collection must be carried out periodically to ensure the museum is operating under best practices and for security purposes. The museum is legally responsible and ethically obligated for the maintenance of up-to-date information detailing the location of all objects within the collection, including loaned items and objects that have yet to be accessioned; this is stipulated by many museum associations, including the American Association of Museums.

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  1. "Code of Ethics for Museum Workers". The American Magazine of Art 16 (10): 555. 1925. 
  2. Gilmore, Jean Allman; Buck, Rebecca A. (2010). Museum Registration Methods (5th ed.). AAM Press. p. 5. ISBN 978-1933253152. 
  3. Newton, Earle W. (July 1960). "Reviewed Work: Museum Registration Methods by Dorothy H. Dudley and Irma Bezold". The American Archivist 23 (2): 342–343. 
  4. Peggy Smith Finch, "The Essential Collections Inventory," in Registrars on Record: Essays on Museum Collection Management, ed. Mary Case (Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 1988),157.
  5. Dorothy H. Dudley, Irma Bezold Wilkinson, et al., Museum Registration Methods (Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 1979), 334.
  6. International Council of Museums and International Committee on Museum Security, Robert B. Burke and Sam Adeloye, ed., A Manual of Basic Museum Security, (Leicester, Great Britain: deVoyle, Leicester, 1986), 15-6.
  7. International Council of Museums and the International Security Committee, "Protection, security and conservation of collections," in Collections Management, ed. Anne Fahy (London: Routledge, 1995), 257.
  8. Dorothy H. Dudley, Irma Bezold Wilkinson, et al., Museum Registration Methods (Washington, D.C.: American Association of Museums, 1979), 67.
  9. Gordon McKenna and Efthymia Patsatzi, ed., SPECTRUM: The UK Museum Documentation Standard (Cambridge: Museum Documentation Association, 2007), 77-8.
  10. Helen Ashby, Gordon McKenna, and Matthew Stiff, ed., SPECTRUM Knowledge: Standards for cultural information management (Cambridge: Museum Documentation Association, 2001), 30-1.
  11. Gordon McKenna and Efthymia Patsatzi, ed., SPECTRUM: The UK Museum Documentation Standard (Cambridge: Museum Documentation Association, 2007), 78.
  12. Gordon McKenna and Efthymia Patsatzi, ed., SPECTRUM: The UK Museum Documentation Standard (Cambridge: Museum Documentation Association, 2007), 79. Stuart A Holm, Facts & Artefacts: How to Document a Museum Collection, 2nd ed., (Cambridge: Museum Documentation Association, 1998), 35.
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