You could purchase a hardcopy of OR subscribe to the online version
(http://www.chin.gc.ca) of the Canadian Heritage Information Network
Collection Management System Software Evaluation (1996).  Volumes I and II
of the continuing evaluation are currently available, and subsequent
editions evaluating further vendor products not included in the first two
stages of the process will be forth-coming before year's end.

Anyone attending the Museum Computer Network conference in Ottawa at the
end of October will probably be able to have a look at the software
evaluation at the CHIN exhibit in the exhibit hall.

Greg Spurgeon
Head, Art Documentation & Storage
National Gallery of Canada
Ottawa

On Mon, 9 Sep 1996, T. Preston wrote:

> Does anyone out there know of a guide or pamphlet or other source of
> information (somebody's thesis?) on choosing collection mgmt. software
> (i.e. Argus, SNAP!, Art System) depending on which kind of collection
> (anthro, art, geology, history, etc.) your museum has?  A comparison
> shopping guide, if you will.
>
> TIY,
>
> Toni Preston
> Univ. of Washington
> Museology grad
>