At Worcestershire Record Office, we are currently in the relatively early
stages of development and adoption of CALM 2000 Plus as our standard
accessioning and cataloguing tool.
I would very much appreciate any thoughts/opinions/strategies adopted by
other CALM users with regards the following questions/issues:
1. Do you use/are you considering using the UNESCO thesaurus? If not, why
not? Are you making additions to adapt it to be more suitable? Has the PRO's
recent message about the additions they are making, made anyone else
consider taking the same approach? What are people's opinions in general
about standardised usage of something like the UNESCO thesaurus - is it too
late already? (We are concerned it may be a little too high level for our
needs, and do not necessarily have the time and/or resources to develop it
further)
2. For what purpose do you use the mail merge facility in the catalogue
module? Do you print out hard copies of each catalogue entry, including all
fields, as a backup? (i.e. for security reasons, or because it is office
practice to send a copy of a completed catalogue to a depositor) Are there
occasions when you need to print out less than all the fields, and does
having the ability to both mean you have different templates designed and
saved for each occasion?
3. What are your arrangements for support with your own IT departments? For
what issues/problems do you need to go to them rather than DS? (We have not
got so far as to really discover how much practical support we will need re
everyday maintenance/support of the system from our IT dept, and would be
interested to know how other offices have arranged things...)
Any information/ideas/suggestions, will be welcomed! Thank you in advance
for your help and time.
If any responses are sent direct to me, I can provide a summary of answers
for the list at a later date, if required.
Jennie Lynch
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