I'd be very interested in seeing responses to this, either on list or
forwarded to me personally.

Thanks!

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Miriam Albahari
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"Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them."
                                                -Chaim Weizmann

On Tue, 10 Sep 1996, Patricia Davis-Perkins (Tel 776 8442) wrote:

> Friends:
>
> I am interested in hearing from anyone out there, who has  had experience in
> operating, coping and perhaps flourishing in the use of a Library Information
> system for the documentation of material culture collections. In particular,
> what are the pleasures or pitfalls of  using MARC format Coding to document the
> objects to standards similar to our Library colleagues.
>
> In so many respects we have the requirements for similar functionality
> -acquisition, reservation and circulation. As well we need other distinct
> management functions of  loans reservation, conservation, risk management,
> exhibit tracking and processing, audit of use, etc. which may or may not be
> replictalted inan ILS.
>
> We are very interested at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in the principle
> of  "one-stop shopping"
> for our information requirements. If I was to query the database (s) for the
> word "Totem Pole" it would be desirable to receive information back as to our
> holdings related to the query in the collections of : material culture holdings
> (the objects themselves); still and moving pictures; books; periodicals;
> manuscripts and monographs; oral history recordings;
>
> Bibliographic information and advice as to the wisdom or otherwise of this
> pursuit will be greatly received.
>
> Roger Baird
> Canadian Museum of Civilization
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