PastPerfect may not follow your exact arrangement of series, but it does 
allow you to catalogue multiple collections.

Have you considered that through its extensive data search capacity you can 
list the "series" term on each item accessed in that series so that a search 
using that term will bring up a listing of all those items? Would that help?

Mary Kirby
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Subject: Multilevel cataloging in PastPerfect


> The institution I work for is just starting out with
> PastPerfect and I am trying to work out in advance how
> everything should be cataloged.
> I'm having some organizational problems because
> currently I have everything organized into SERIES such
> as Museum Admin Records, Elevated Railroad
> photographs, Subway Construction photographs, Transit
> Police, ect.
> THEN I have collection descriptions based on a
> collection that came into the Archives as a single
> accession.
> SO, I have about 5 collections that make up one
> series. PastPerfect does not allow several Collections
> to be attached to a single series. I need to figure
> out a way to reorganize the records for our
> collection. Does anyone have any advice or has dealt
> with this sort of problem before?
> Thanks,
> Carey Stumm
>
>
>
>
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