I am a Curator for the National Park Service.  We use to make 3 hard copies.
One went to a bomb shelter with all the various unit's catalog records -
filed their by catalog number.  A second copy staid on site, filed by catalog
number.  A third copy staid on site, and was filed by nomenclature.  Now with
electronic data bases (NPS uses Rediscovery), we don't do a hard copy by
nomenclature.  It is much easier and faster to do the searches
electronically.  We are lucky to have all our catalog records in the
database, at least to what we call the Registration Level - doesn't include
description information.  The other two hard copies are still printed and
filed by catalog number.  Of course, we have tons of tape backups of our
museum records also, both on and off site.

Chris Ford
Grant-Kohrs Ranch NHS
Deer Lodge, MT

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