To reiterate the other comments stating "never never throw away your
collections records".....let me say NEVER throw them away!  Not even
catalog cards!  We have had periods of time here when our system was down
for extended periods.  Without the hard copy records we would have been
dead in the water.  Another question to address is do you continue to
generate paper records (I speak specifically of catalog cards) after you
move to a database?  We do not,  and it worries me at times.
Tracy Murphy
Associate Collections Manager
Museum of Northern Arizona

Veronica B|rger wrote:

> Hi,
>
>     I work in a museum that's beginning to introduce a software to
> handle it's collection this year. The guys in charge of this activity
> think that the old records of collection, which are on paper, should be
> thrown away, and from now on we should rely on the database of the new
> system.
>     I'm afraid that this could cause some inconveniences in the future.
> Did somebody else in this list experience this kind of situation ?
>
>     Is there some texts talking about the use of software systems to
> handle a museum's collection in the net, or in some magazine or book ?
>
>     Thanks for any information ....
>
>     Bye,
>     Armando