Hi Dave,
message was received and yes, I am certainly interested in discussing
these topics.  We have numerous ongoing data entry projects underway to
get our records updated and complete, and in fact the fact that they
aren't at this point has been a major concern for us and how other
non-curatorial dept.s (Education, Design, Editorial) use TMS as a
reference tool with the understanding that our data is not yet complete.
Thanks, Stephanie

Stephanie Leverock
Records Manager/Collections Review Coordinator
Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11238
Tel: 718-501-6483/Fax: 718-501-6135



> Hi Everyone,
>
> Hopefully you all received the listserv email from Mignon
> Erixon-Stanford about the recent move of the TMSUSERS listserv to a new
> server with slightly different domain address. According to Mignon the
> transition was to have been seemless and we would have noticed nothing.
> But a few of you have written to me recently about the lack of activity
> on the list and wondered if there was some technical problem or if
> things had just been quiet. So if you're receiving this message, let us
> hear from you.
>
> Also, my supervisor and mentor Bruce Young (Head of Collections
> Management at the Freer and Sackler for many years) and I have been
> talking recently about data standards.  Here at our museum I have
> recently formed our first Collections Information System Data Content
> Committee made up from Collections Management and Curatorial advisors.
> This is a major step for us as our administration and the curators have
> joined us in support of tasking the data base to serve as the primary
> and authoritative source for collections information instead of our long
> venerated paper records and published comprehensive catalogs. The
> questions that will have to be answered and procedures that will have to
> implement to accomplish this are too numerous to mention here at once.
>
> Are any other of you doing something similar? And if you're already well
> into the process would you have any wisdom you could share?  I have
> considered the idea of sending out an email on a very focused issue once
> every two weeks. Would you all be interested in discussing and sharing
> your ideas on topics such as retiring paper files, managing massive data
> entry projects, style sheets, thesauri, collections information system
> mission statements and TMS functionality in relation to your goals,
> etc.?
>
> Looking forward to hearing from everyone.
>
> Best as always,
>
> Dave