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Dear Ms. Jones:

I've routed your question to several colleagues around the Getty, and there =
is
no consensus on a single software package for managing bibliographic data.
Although ProCite has been used by numerous staff, our Information Technology
Services office does not identify it as a =22standard=22 for use Getty-wide.

I recommend you put your question to the subscribers of the Art Libraries
Society of North America discussion list, ARLIS-L =
=3Carlis-l=40lsv.uky.edu=3E=3B I
should think they would have strong feelings about the issue.  Another =
resource
might be the Museum Computer Network.

Good luck with your research.

Jim Bower
J. Paul Getty Trust

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Dear Mr. Bower,
I'm a graduate student in Art History at Columbia and a bibliographer at the
Metropolitan in New York. Soon, I want to reformat my computer and load new
programs, and I need to upgrade my bibliography database. I've been using an
ancient version of Notebook in Dos (Notebook is now defunct).

I have heard that the Getty encourages visiting scholars and funded project
staff to use ProCite. I'm not thrilled by the strictures or the useless =
bells
and whistles of all the new programs I've looked at, since I prefer more
control and a custom setup, so I figure that if I must choose between
existing evils I might as well go with what could become a museum standard.

Could you please send your thoughts on this, or direct this query to the
appropriate person. I would be most grateful.

Thanks, Penny Jones (Mylodon7=40aol.com)