Dear Colleagues,

On Friday, June 18th, we hosted the first session of the Solution Provider segment in our Dreaming of a New Collections Management System webinar series. This month’s conversation brought a fascinating discussion on the use of cooperative or consortia-based software-as-a-service with the open source collections management system CollectiveAccess.

Our panelists Karin Kierstead, Diane Lee, and Seth Kaufman shared with us how many cultural institutions may address the challenges of cost and technology support by working together. If you missed the live conversation, you may find a recording of it here: https://youtu.be/p9yh_eFZNUQ

In our next session on July 20th,  we will be welcoming ArtworkArchive to our series to talk about how they work with cultural institutions to develop better workflows and sustainable collections-related practices; capturing the context of objects, addressing the different needs of multiple departments within a single organization; and promoting internal and external discoverability across collections. More details on registration are coming soon.