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Date: | Thu, 4 Apr 1996 09:50:18 EST |
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I appreciate the current efforts of standardization thesaurus
catagories but I keep wondering when someone such as national
organizations etc are going to begin postulating standarization
of computer programs for like material or even all materials.
As a small museum, I am not interested in searching through the
thousands of software programs currently available, many of which
will be out of business before I get one up and running nor am
I interested in becoming a computer nerd and trying to or have
tailored new software. As the museum world moves to the
electronic age, if small-medium museums with their staff of
generalists want to be included in efforts to browse their
restricted catalogues etc. registrars, collections managers or
whatever title the institution wants to hang on its personnel
need an easy STANDARD software program to begin the data
consolidation process.
I think that the 6 museum collaboration that I saw at the Burke
Museum in Seattle was a good example whereby even the visitors
had access to limited listings from those museums. Visitors were
answering their own questions and curiosity thus saving staff
time and interruptions.
What is the feeling of the list members on this?
Carole DeFord
Collections Manager
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