As part of a master's thesis, I have installed a bar code system in two
museums, The PanHandle-Plains Historical Museum and The Museum of Texas
Tech.  The collections at both institutions include paleontology, history,
art, ethnology, and archeology.  P-PHM uses a PC environment, and MoTTU uses
a Macintosh environment.  The system is working successfully at both
institutions.  I am now working at MoTTU to develop additional ways to use
the system.

At both instititions, we are using the system to aide with cataloging,
accessioning, information requests, loans, and inventories (including
condition reports).

The bar codes are printed from the collection's database, without using a
third party program, on object labels from a laser printer.  My thesis was
written as a how-to-manual and is schedualed to be printed in late Spring.

For more information, you can contact me directly at [log in to unmask]

Susan Fishman-Armstrong M.A.
Museum of Texas Tech University
Lubbock, TX
79409-3191
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