Together with other colleagues, registrars are responsible for implementing policies and procedures relating to collections care in cultural institutions like archives, libraries, and museums. Typically, a registrar's responsibilities relate to acquisitions, loans, exhibitions, deaccessions, storage, packing and shipping, security of objects in transit, insurance policies, and risk management.  At Yale Library, many of these area are primarily the responsibility of other departments and units, so the Yale Library registrar focuses primarily on loans.  Because the position is within Preventive Conservation, the registrar is also involved in packing and shipping, security of objects in transit, insurance policies, and risk management (as well the preventive conservation activities described elsewhere in this guide).