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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1D0826">Apologies for cross-posting.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1D0826">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">My library has some artifacts that we would like to catalog. We’re exploring software packages that are designed for artifacts<span style="color:#1D0826">. We are associated with the Country
Doctor Museum <a href="http://www.countrydoctormuseum.org/">http://www.countrydoctormuseum.org/</a> which uses Past Perfect
<a href="http://www.museumsoftware.com/">http://www.museumsoftware.com/</a> . We have recently learned that a museum near us is planning to move from Access to Proficio
<a href="https://rediscoverysoftware.com/">https://rediscoverysoftware.com/</a> . <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1D0826">My library’s artifacts are mainly medical instruments and mainly
</span><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">post World War II, <span style="color:#1D0826">
however, we are </span>interested in your cataloging experience with any type of artifact. In the future we might be cataloging anthropological, geological, biological, etc. items<span style="color:#1D0826">.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1D0826">Have you or any one you know used either software package or another package to catalog artifacts? If so, please respond to me or to the list in general with the package name,
benefits, and problems. I will send a summary to the list. In some cases, we </span>
<span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif">may ask to <span style="color:#1D0826">
contact you for more detailed information.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1D0826">Thank you for your help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Book Antiqua",serif;color:#1D0826">Melissa<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Melissa M. Nasea, MSLS, MBA, AHIP <br>
History Collections Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Laupus Health Sciences Library<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">4516 B Health Sciences Building<br>
600 Moye Blvd<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Mail Stop 612 <br>
East Carolina University<br>
Greenville, NC 27834<br>
<a href="mailto:naseam@ecu.edu"><span style="color:blue">naseam@ecu.edu</span></a><br>
252-744-2235</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://www.ecu.edu/laupuslibrary"><span style="color:blue">http://www.ecu.edu/laupuslibrary</span></a>
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