Good Morning,
My museum recently received a grant to process a 78 box collection donated to us a few years ago. I recently finished my first 2 year grant with them getting the archives into fighting shape. They have never had a full time archivist on staff before. Our museum uses PastPerfect collection management software, and while this is a museum object friendly system, it was not exactly built for archives. This will be the first collection I will be cataloging from start to finish. The records I have worked with previously in PP have just been updates. I'm looking for someone who has some familiarity with the archives options of PP. I run into a lot of people who use PP for their object collections but not for their archives collections.
Since the collection I'm working with is rather large and I have only 2 years to process it, I am considering and MPLP approach. I have read some of the sections in the PP manual and think I would like to catalogue using the Container List tab, but would really like to discuss further with someone who has used this. I am very open to discussion on this project and any shared contacts would be much appreciated. My email is in my signature if you would like to discuss off thread.
Please excuse cross posting in archives groups.
Thank you,
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Cheyenne Jansdatter, MLIS
Archival Collections Manager
Museum of Danish America
Elk Horn IA
cjansdatter@danishmuseum.org------------------------------