We are a relatively young museum that would like to get a handle on our book collection.  Past curators have focused exclusively on objects and not library materials.  Personally, my experience is with artifacts and not books.  I have at least 3000 volumes that need to be cataloged.  We use PastPerfect for our object collection.  Has anyone used PastPerfect for their library collection?  Do you find it useful?  If not, do you suggest another cataloging program?  Although ours is a non-circulating collection, one benefit I see to Past Perfect is that I can launch the collection online with the additional software they sell and not have to worry to much about exporting the data.  Are they any good books out there about how to start a museum library.  I plan on trying to rope in some retired librarians to help me on this, if I can find them.  I really don't know where to begin.  Any help is greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.

Aaron

Aaron Micallef
Curator and Collections Manager
Santa Barbara Maritime Museum 
113 Harbor Way, Ste. 190
Santa Barbara, CA 93109

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