ABSTRACT
The Corps' Archaeological Curation Strategy was formulated between 1989 and 1990 by the Center as a way to address the issue of Corps collections. The Corps has one of the largest archaeological collections in the federal government, and the number of collections grows with each new archaeological project that the Corps undertakes. The Corps' collections management strategy has developed from collecting and storing collections across the nation in an ad hoc manner to a more sophisticated system of regionalization. The deputy under secretary of defense for Environmental Security implemented the Legacy Resource Management Program in 1991. The center has since expanded its capabilities to meet a growing set of federal cultural, environmental, asset management, and information management requirements. Regional curation primarily of federal and state collections has been proposed and used by a handful of organizations as a way to make curation more affordable and archaeological collections more accessible to researchers and the public.
