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Greetings

I am looking for advice on choice of museum cataloguing software. We  
are an Army  regimental museum (aka unit history room). We have a few  
thousand objects, documents, books , diaries, files,  photos, CD's  
etc. The usual range of museum stuff. It is a 4-volunteer operation,  
but when we write data entry procedures we can get people to assist  
with this.

In a previous structure we issued with EMUlite, an Army adaptation of  
EMU software. We are no longer required to stay with this software,  
and we had not got very far into entering data anyway.

We need to select some suitable software to catalogue the collection.  
I would welcome any feed back from museum folk about their  
experiences and recommendations
 From what I have able to gather, the systems of choice with museums  
seem to be Mosaic, EMU, Maxus and Pastperfect.

Being a fairly small operation we would not need a Rolls Royce  
program suitable for the British Museum

Thanks

Roy Arnott
Curator
4th/19th Prince of Wales's Light Horse Regiment
Unit History Room