You mean in the classification field? 
I've thought about that. 
Putting 
Museum Administration Records
or
Photographs/Elevated Railroad

in the classification field to help organize what goes
together. 
hmmm.... just trying to weigh all my options here
before I commit to something.
Thanks for the advice Mary.
-Carey

--- "Mary L. Kirby" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> PastPerfect may not follow your exact arrangement of
> series, but it does 
> allow you to catalogue multiple collections.
> 
> Have you considered that through its extensive data
> search capacity you can 
> list the "series" term on each item accessed in that
> series so that a search 
> using that term will bring up a listing of all those
> items? Would that help?
> 
> Mary Kirby
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "carey stumm" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Wednesday, July 27, 2005 9:46 AM
> Subject: Multilevel cataloging in PastPerfect
> 
> 
> > The institution I work for is just starting out
> with
> > PastPerfect and I am trying to work out in advance
> how
> > everything should be cataloged.
> > I'm having some organizational problems because
> > currently I have everything organized into SERIES
> such
> > as Museum Admin Records, Elevated Railroad
> > photographs, Subway Construction photographs,
> Transit
> > Police, ect.
> > THEN I have collection descriptions based on a
> > collection that came into the Archives as a single
> > accession.
> > SO, I have about 5 collections that make up one
> > series. PastPerfect does not allow several
> Collections
> > to be attached to a single series. I need to
> figure
> > out a way to reorganize the records for our
> > collection. Does anyone have any advice or has
> dealt
> > with this sort of problem before?
> > Thanks,
> > Carey Stumm
> >
> >
> >
> >
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