30th March 2012, 10:10 PM
Well, perhaps not in house (alternative being long-term arrangement as for the Welsh Archaeological Trusts) but I'm very uneasy about use of consultants as curators, irrespective of their former role - unless the curatorial service had simply become a separate body and wasn't commercially funded. How to guarantee consistency, impartiality, and the cumulative benefits that comes from long term stewardship? Individual or corporate gain, communal loss? Particularly as regards HERs, and the two are inextricably linked. But that's a whole new thread. :face-stir: