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RE>Artist books 6/17/96
We started ours on the INMAGIC package many years ago. When we installed
our DYNIX system about three years ago, we uploaded with no difficulty. We
still don't have more than a rudimentary record but INMAGIC is very
capable.
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Date: 6/17/96 11:48 AM
To: Bob Foley
From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSIO
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TO : ARLIS-L
FROM : Clive Phillpot
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In recent travels around Europe I have come across an expressed need for
a common database package which could be used by small archives and
collections for constructing a catalog of artist books. It should be an
elementary fill-in-the-blanks database that could be utilized by
unskilled labor, but which could easily be translated into MARC if the
collector or institution was able to do more sophisticated cataloging
later.
Either an off-the-peg database would do, or a customized database that a
colleague would not mind sharing - with the possibility of its being
adopted as a quasi-standard among small, often alternative, collections.
I would be glad to hear from anyone in North America (or beyond) who
coule offer suggestions.
Many thanks.
Clive Phillpot.
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