This combination mini-job description is not at all unusual.  Many
collections managers/registrars who deal with computerized databases are
their own systems managers and often provide guidance for the entire
institution.  Take a look at the New Museum Registration Methods (Buck and
Gilmore, ed), which has a 20 page section on computerized collections
management for more information.


Janice Klein
Registrar,
The Field Museum
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At 11:47 AM 7/2/1998 -0800, you wrote:
>At 2:40 PM 7/2/98, E. L. Wimett wrote:
>
>>As both a Collections Manager and an Information Systems Manager (dual
>>appointment at our museum by design)
>
>        I found this mini-job description most interesting and,
>unfortunately, unusual.