At 07:23 AM Thursday, March 04, 1999 Armando wrote:

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>The guys in charge of this activity
>think that the old records of collection, which are on paper, should be
>thrown away, and from now on we should rely on the database of the new
>system.

For heaven's sake please do NOT!

Apart from reliability of electronic storage:
collection records on paper are historical, sometimes also legal evidence
in themselves and thus must be considered part of the collection.

>texts talking about the use of software systems to
>handle a museum's collection in the net, or in some magazine or book
Yes there are many. I'll send a list of 400+ citations from my museology
data base offlist to your address.

Fritz
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