Hi Janine,
 
In my previous role at Bradford College Textile Archive, we also implemented TMS for our archival collection.
 
I tended to use the Objects Module mostly for creating a group record for our textile sample books and then assigning "Child" records for each of the samples within the book. This worked well, however did threaten to become a bit unwieldy baring in mind the size of the collection and the fact that this cataloguing process was started from scratch.
 
I then used Constituents Module to assign maker/designer/author etc
Exhibitions Module for any loan-out displays (we didn't organise exhibitions at the archive)
Loans Module to document any loans-out (then attached to the relevant Exhibition record)
 
I'm not sure how well this has progressed in the last 6 months so it might be worth getting in touch with the current Archivist there, Helen Farrar ([log in to unmask]).
 
All the best,
 
Madeline
 

Madeline Betts

Collections Database Officer

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Hi Janine

We are using TMS for our collection as well as for the archive oft he University. Our archive uses all modules of TMS:

Objects:  important works from students or professors, donations, archive documents, publications

Exhibitions: documentation of all exhibitions of the Museum of Design Zurich

Sites - we renamed this module to Projects: research projects, excursions, competitions, projects of classes, donations with all documents, events, transdisplinary publication projects – this module is quite useful to combine objects, documents and media under a “parent title” and with several levels of context for related people.

Media: of course all kind of media related to the other modules

You can get an impression of the data on our emuseum site (preferable to be openend with firefox/safari):

www.emuseum.ch – with “archiv” as quicksearch term you will get a big part of their public data.

Cheers

Judith

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Zürcher Hochschule der Künste

Zurich University of the Arts

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Judith Scheiber Dahou

Projektleiterin ITZ

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Gesendet: Dienstag, 29. Januar 2013 16:47
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Betreff: TMS for library and archival collections

Hello fellow TMS users.

Is anyone using TMS for their library and archive collections?  

I'd appreciate hearing from anyone using it for this purpose to see how they like it and how difficult it was to adapt to.

cheers,

Janine Butler, Head of Collections/Registrar
McMichael Canadian Art Collection
Kleinburg, Ontario
CANADA
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