Works OK for me. At 09:38 AM 3/18/2003 -0500, you wrote: >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