RHSV Information Technology and Historical Societies Survey 2010 (part 3)

Cataloguing programs used

• Inmagic DB/TextWorks – 66
• Excel – 37 *
• Filemaker Pro – 18
• Access – 18
• Collections Mosaic – 6
• Heritage V – 5
• Microsoft Works – 5

Not using computers for cataloguing – 16
Other** – 15

Multiple responses to this question

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13 groups reported using only Excel for collections management.

Excel was also used by groups using Inmagic DB/TextWorks (10), Access (10), Filemaker Pro (3), Collections Mosaic (2) and Microsoft Works (2)

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• Specially designed / in-house database – 5
• Records directly added to library catalogue / database – 2
• Tellico (Linux), Tabularium, eLibrary, Bookmark, Copernic and Tribute were other programs mentioned

Type of items in computer catalogue

• Photographs – 125
• Books – 106
• Documents – 103
• Maps – 73
• Artifacts – 72
• Ephemera – 70
• Audio tapes – 53
• Videotapes – 49

132 groups answered this question

Catalogue records made available to the public

• Staff searching for researchers at the society – 125
• Researchers using a read-only database at the society – 47
• Researchers using a read-only version of the database at a library or another location – 4
• Local history database available on the Internet – 25