From a photo on your website it appears you may have retained your physical card catalog as well? We have ours in our Workroom/Office which has proved very valuable (when electronic systems are down, for verification of missing or erroneous records). Our MARC records also went into the local cooperative's online system. Did yours? Sincerely, Rebecca D. Steel, Librarian Kalamazoo Institute of Arts Library 314 South Park Street Kalamazoo, MI 49007-5102 (616) 349-7775, x3160 FAX: 349-9313 http://www.kiarts.org ----- Original Message ----- From: Ursula Kolmstetter <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Monday, August 28, 2000 11:11 AM Subject: Re: Automation > Dear William, > The Library of the Indianapolis Museum of Art went into a consortium with the Indianapolis Public Library. You can find us under > http://www.ima-art.org then click on libraries, etc. 95% of our records can now be accessed through the Public Library's Horizon system. They are just entering all of our magazine holdings. > > At the end of last year we received a large grant for the library automation project including retrospective conversion, etc. > All in all it was a lot of work but very rewarding. The staff of the Public Library was very helpful and great to work with. I would be glad to share with you the grant proposal. > Best wishes, > Ursula Kolmstetter > > > Ursula Kolmstetter > Head Librarian, Stout Reference Library > Indianapolis Museum of Art > 1200 West 38th Street > Indianapolis, IN 46208 > USA > Tel.: 317-920-2662, ext. 225 > Fax: 317-926-8931 > e-mail: [log in to unmask] > > >>> William Peniston <[log in to unmask]> 08/25/00 04:03PM >>> > If I remember correctly, the Indianapolis Museum of Art is automating its > collection through the Indianapolis Public Library; the Baltimore Museum of > Art and the Walters Art Gallery are automating through Johns Hopkins; and > the Amos Carter Museum, the Kimball Art Museum, and the Modern Art Museum of > Fort Worth are automating through Texas Christian University. How are these > cooperative automation projects progressing? Are there other such projects > out there? I ask because The Newark Museum and the New Jersey Historical > Society have begun discussions with the Newark Public Library and Rutgers > University about the possibility of automating through one of them. What are > the advantages and disadvantages of cooperative automation projects. All > feedback would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks. > William A. Peniston, Librarian, The Newark Museum, 49 Washington Street, > P.O. Box 540, Newark, NJ 07101; telephone: (973) 596-6625; fax: (973) > 642-0459; email: [log in to unmask] > > __________________________________________________________________ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] > Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) > to [log in to unmask] > ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: > http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html > Questions may be addressed to list owner at: [log in to unmask] > > __________________________________________________________________ > Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] > Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) > to [log in to unmask] > ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: > http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html > Questions may be addressed to list owner at: [log in to unmask] > __________________________________________________________________ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] Administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/arlis-l.html Questions may be addressed to list owner at: [log in to unmask]