This Year's Summer meeting of the Museum Computer Group is being held in
Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the Ulster Museum.
 
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Below is the programme. The meeting proper is on the 19th and 20th of May
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                          MUSEUM COMPUTER GROUP
                        NORTHERN IRELAND MEETING
                             18 - 21 MAY 1994
 
                                PROGRAMME
                 ULSTER MUSEUM, BOTANIC GARDENS, BELFAST
 
WEDNESDAY 18 MAY
International Museums Day.
Delegates Arrive
19:30 International Museums Day Lecture; Mark O'Neill, Keeper of History,
      Glasgow City Museums.
      'Behind the Scenes at the St. Mungo Museum'
 
20:45 Reception, Ulster Museum.
 
THURSDAY 19 MAY
09:00 Registration
 
09:30 Welcome, Mr. J. C. Nolan, Director, Ulster Museum.
 
Chair Ben Booth, National Museum of Science and Industry, London.
 
09:40 John Wilson, Head of the Division of Collections Services,
      Ulster Museum.
      'The Ulster Museum and its Information Systems'
 
10:00 John Walsh, Ulster American Folk Park. Emigration Database.
 
10:30 COFFEE
 
Chair John Wilson, Ulster Museum.
 
11:00 Sandy Buchanan, Head of Documentation, National Museums of Scotland.
      'Delivery of Data : Providing Information in a New Museum'.
 
11:20 Jennifer Stewart, Head of Documentation, National Museum of Wales,
      'The Collections Management System at the National Museum of Wales :
      The Evolution of a System'.
 
11:40 Mike Budd, LASSI Project Manager, Museums & Galleries Commission,
      LASSI Update.
 
12:00 Pat Holland, Irish Museums Association/South Tipperary County Museums
      Service. Title to be announced later.
 
12:20 Bob McClean, Logicom Ltd.,
      'Introduction to Logicom Ltd. and the Status/M Collection Management
      System'.
 
12:30 Discussion
 
12:45 LUNCH
 
 
14:00 Ulster Museum Demonstrations; various sites.
        QUIXIS, Collections management System
        Recorder, Advanced Revelation, Zoology Dept.
        Imaging System, Palaeontology, Geology Dept.
        Conservation Information Network, Conservation Dept.
        Finance System, network.
        Delegates demonstrations.
 
16:00 Round Table Discussion, Education Unit.
 
17:30 Finish
 
FRIDAY 20 MAY
 
09:00 Depart for Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
 
09:30 Demonstrations and museum visit, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum.
        STATUS - BBC Northern Ireland Radio Archive
        Railway Gallery - 'Railway Builder'
 
12:00 Depart for Down Museum
 
13:00 LUNCH, Down Museum.
 
14:00 Presentations Down County Museum
        STATUS M Collections Management System
        Australian Immigration System
 
16:30 Depart for Belfast and Hotels
 
 
SATURDAY 21 MAY
 
Optional tour.
 
Antrim Coast, Giants Causeway and Bushmills Distillery.
(numbers permitting)
 
Event sponsored by Logicom Ltd, supplier of Status/M
Collection Management System.
Collection Management System.