Hi Patricia,
Here at the Brooklyn Museum of Art we also use components to record
mounts, templates, and other "Accessory Type" components (sometimes even
special frames, special storage boxes, portfoilio.  We register their
count as zero this way I can distinguish how many true part-of-object
components are in our collection.

We don't enter crates as components this way but do have many crates
entered as containers in the shipping module.

Sincerely,
Stephanie Leverock, The Brooklyn Museum of Art



> We use components of Object records of type 'accessory', as opposed to
'part of object'. That way we can move record dims etc about accessories
and move e.g. a painting and its dedicated transit frame together, or
independently.
>
> Jon
> Tate
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patricia Raynor [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 13 February 2004 16:05
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Tracking crates in TMS
>
>
> Dear all,
>
> I've tried unsucessfully to send the following message (at least I
believe it didn't go through) as I didn't get any responses.  I'm hoping
to hear from all of you who use TMS to track object crates.
>
> We would like to find a way to track object crates, associated object
housing, or mounts in TMS.  We are soliciting suggestions from other TMS
users who might have already found a successful way to use TMS for this
purpose.
>
> Thanks for your advice.
>
> Patricia
>
> Patricia  A. Raynor
> Museum Specialist
> National Postal Museum
> Smithsonian Institution
> Washington, DC 20560-0570
> 202-633-5514
> 202-786-2767 (fax)
>
> Temporary mailing address:
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Stephanie Leverock
Records Manager/Collections Review Coordinator
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11238-6052
Tel: 718-501-6483/Fax: 718-501-6135