21 Oct
2010
21 Oct
'10
6:23 p.m.
On 10/21/10 4:04 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
The low-level items (disk packs and cartridges,
tapes, boards, etc.) are fuzzier
But necessary.
We're discovering that systems were accepted in Boston with no boards in them,
for example, and there is nothing in the accession record that mentions that
fact.
It's absolutely necessary to know if anything that should be in an accessioned
artifact is missing, and the condition.
It is a huge amount of work to catalog a collection.
One of the requirements for museum accreditation is having a significant
portion of your collection cataloged.
CHM has come a LONG way since I've been here. We have just under 75,000 items
visible in the on-line data base
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/search/