Dear Colleagues:
In March, the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center posted questions
on ARLIS-L, SAA-L, and SAAMUS-L. Our original message follows with
summary responses below in bold:
The Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center is investigating how museum
archives are inventorying and cataloging their collections. If you work
in a museum institution, we'd appreciate if you would take a few minutes
to answer our questions below.
1. Do you use an archival database to accession and describe your
archival collections? If so, what is the name of the database?
28 responses, majority do not use an archival database
2. Do you use a museum collection management system to accession
and describe your archival collections? If so, what is the name of the
museum collection system?
27 responses, majority do not use a museum CMS
Is it used in conjunction with an archival database?
27 responses, majority do not use a museum CMS in conjunction with an
archival database
3. Do you use your archival database to create finding aids for
each of your collections?
28 responses, majority do not use an archival database to create finding
aids
If not, how do you create finding aids? Neither of these questions
explicitly refers to EAD finding aids.
28 responses, half create by hand (mostly in Word) and half did not
indicate another method for creating finding aids
4. Do you create collection level records for your archival
collections in the library catalog?
28 responses, majority do create collection level records within library
catalog
We have compiled the answers to our questions and posted them on:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/14992802/Museum-Archives-Database-Survey
Our thanks to all of the individuals who took the time to answer our
questions.
Sincerely,
Eumie Imm-Stroukoff and Elizabeth Ehrnst
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Research Center
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Eumie Imm-Stroukoff
Librarian and Assistant Director, Research Center
Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
217 Johnson Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501
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