This Year's Summer meeting of the Museum Computer Group is being held in Belfast, Northern Ireland, at the Ulster Museum. People on the MCG mailing list will shortly receive the announcement via post. Included is information about the meeting, an acommodation list and a reply form to be returned by the 13th of May. If you wish to reply after seeing this announcement, or are not on the MCG mailing list and would like to be added, then send a request to: [log in to unmask] Below is the programme. The meeting proper is on the 19th and 20th of May ------------------------------------------------------------------------- MUSEUM COMPUTER GROUP NORTHERN IRELAND MEETING 18 - 21 MAY 1994 PROGRAMME ULSTER MUSEUM, BOTANIC GARDENS, BELFAST WEDNESDAY 18 MAY International Museums Day. Delegates Arrive 19:30 International Museums Day Lecture; Mark O'Neill, Keeper of History, Glasgow City Museums. 'Behind the Scenes at the St. Mungo Museum' 20:45 Reception, Ulster Museum. THURSDAY 19 MAY 09:00 Registration 09:30 Welcome, Mr. J. C. Nolan, Director, Ulster Museum. Chair Ben Booth, National Museum of Science and Industry, London. 09:40 John Wilson, Head of the Division of Collections Services, Ulster Museum. 'The Ulster Museum and its Information Systems' 10:00 John Walsh, Ulster American Folk Park. Emigration Database. 10:30 COFFEE Chair John Wilson, Ulster Museum. 11:00 Sandy Buchanan, Head of Documentation, National Museums of Scotland. 'Delivery of Data : Providing Information in a New Museum'. 11:20 Jennifer Stewart, Head of Documentation, National Museum of Wales, 'The Collections Management System at the National Museum of Wales : The Evolution of a System'. 11:40 Mike Budd, LASSI Project Manager, Museums & Galleries Commission, LASSI Update. 12:00 Pat Holland, Irish Museums Association/South Tipperary County Museums Service. Title to be announced later. 12:20 Bob McClean, Logicom Ltd., 'Introduction to Logicom Ltd. and the Status/M Collection Management System'. 12:30 Discussion 12:45 LUNCH 14:00 Ulster Museum Demonstrations; various sites. QUIXIS, Collections management System Recorder, Advanced Revelation, Zoology Dept. Imaging System, Palaeontology, Geology Dept. Conservation Information Network, Conservation Dept. Finance System, network. Delegates demonstrations. 16:00 Round Table Discussion, Education Unit. 17:30 Finish FRIDAY 20 MAY 09:00 Depart for Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. 09:30 Demonstrations and museum visit, Ulster Folk and Transport Museum. STATUS - BBC Northern Ireland Radio Archive Railway Gallery - 'Railway Builder' 12:00 Depart for Down Museum 13:00 LUNCH, Down Museum. 14:00 Presentations Down County Museum STATUS M Collections Management System Australian Immigration System 16:30 Depart for Belfast and Hotels SATURDAY 21 MAY Optional tour. Antrim Coast, Giants Causeway and Bushmills Distillery. (numbers permitting) Event sponsored by Logicom Ltd, supplier of Status/M Collection Management System. Collection Management System.