In Victoria (Australia), museums use a plethora of software for
cataloguing, although the package that has been recommended in past years
to small museums with heritage collections is a package called INmagic
which was originally developed for libraries and has been more recently
developed for small museums to align with a cataloguing manual and
worksheets used throughout the state of Victoria as a standard collections
management system.  In the state of Queensland, a new accessioning kit has
been developed by the Queensland museum, along the same lines as the model
used here, but with a numerical classification system built in, which we do
not use for INmagic.  Assessments of these two systems are to be made this
year and will appear in Museums National in the Winter (your Summer)
journal.

Adrienne Leith
Training Coordinator, Museums Australia (Victoria)

>I am doing some research regarding the choices available in software for the
>small museum. I have had experience with the REGIS system and was interested
>in finding out if there are any better and/or cheaper programs out there. I
>am specifically interested in any programs that cater to all the needs of
>the small museum including registration, membership lists, financial
>records, etc. I am also interested in determining any shortcomings in
>particular programs and in the genre of Musuem Software in general.
>Thank You!
>Joanna Ebenstein
>
>Erik Hanson
>AltaMira Press
>1630 North Main Street #367
>Walnut Creek, CA 94596
>(510)938-7243 Fax: (510)933-9720
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