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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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