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We are moving to a computer-only catalogue, mainly because we lack the time
and staff to maintain two sets of books! We do not plan to discard the
current card catalogue, but we will not be adding to it. A good collection
management program should allow you to track changes, I think.
Any other thoughts out there?
> We have begun to computerize our museum catalog data for the vertebrate
>collections. Several people have suggested to me that in the future we
>should do away with the written catalog, and just catalog new specimens
>by entering data directly into the computer. Later we can print up a hard
>copy from the database. The main advantage of this method would be in
>saving time. My instincts tell me that this is a bad idea. It would be
>difficult to track name/ID changes; if data labels are hard to read,
>sometimes it is easier to copy data by hand than into a computer;
>handwritten records can also serve as historical records of a sort, etc.,
>etc. Does anyone have any thoughts on this matter?
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>Rosanne Humphrey
>Assistant Curator of Zoology
>University of Colorado Museum
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Janis Beth Wilkens
Curator of Collections
Museum of York County
4621 Mt. Gallant Road
Rock Hill, SC 29732
803-329-2121 Fax: 803-329-5249
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