RegistrarTrek<p><strong>What does a jet have to do with managing previously unmanaged collections?</strong></p> <a href="https://world.museumsprojekte.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cockpit-6622086_1280.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a>Photo by Andreas Glöckner via Pixabay <p>Simple answer:</p><p>Nothing.</p><p>More complex answer:</p><p>I am in the process of translating <a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/managing-previously-unmanaged-collections-9781538190630/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">the book </a>into German and sometimes there are hiccups. In chapter 4, I talk about the difficulties of enforcing access policies to your storage area. A process which, as we all know, comes with all sorts of difficulties, the problem of taking the key from someone being a humiliating gesture in our Western culture not being the least of it.</p><p>In the English original, there is the sentence:</p><p>“Enforce the access policy with the <em>three ps</em>: persistence, patience, and politeness.”</p><p>Needless to say, such sentences don’t translate well. Usually you just rephrase them and let go of the idea that you can find three words starting with the same letter in the other language. However, I think I did find a way this morning:</p><p>“Halten Sie mit „Drei G“ an Ihren Zugangsbeschränkungen fest: mit Geradlinigkeit, Geduld und Gutem Benehmen.”</p><p>Finding three words starting with the letter G with the same meaning like the original (although the third one is cheating a bit, using two words) was already a big win. But the even bigger win was that this way I now have the double meaning of 3 G in it, alluding to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWY3-1gOrxk&t=32s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">g-forces</a> in physics.</p><p>I could of course take that analogy and run with it, saying that when we change longstanding processes and habits like we inevitably do when we start improving things in our collections, it means that we accelerate things and take people out of where they are used to go and expecting to go. And as we know from physics, if we accelerate things, a force is applied to the one being accelerated, which can have unpleasant side effects.</p><p>But I don’t want to overburden that little sentence. Instead, just imagine me giggling slightly when you come across it reading the book. 🙂</p><p><em>Angela</em></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://world.museumsprojekte.de/tag/accesscontrol/" target="_blank">#AccessControl</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://world.museumsprojekte.de/tag/collections-management/" target="_blank">#collectionsManagement</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://world.museumsprojekte.de/tag/documentation/" target="_blank">#documentation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://world.museumsprojekte.de/tag/museum/" target="_blank">#museum</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://world.museumsprojekte.de/tag/museumdocumentation-2/" target="_blank">#MuseumDocumentation</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://world.museumsprojekte.de/tag/registrar/" target="_blank">#registrar</a></p>