I'm (in)famous for my rants about our purchase order pads, which were printed up in zillions in the mid-20th century and require carbon paper (which is damn hard to find these days). I huffed and I puffed and swore I wouldn't shut up until I could do purchase orders online.
Well, I won. And the application for online purchase orders is so awkward and time-consuming that I realized we can do the hand-written ones in a fraction of the time. In the end, either one has to be signed, so it makes no difference if we have to shelpp a paper pad or a printout from office to office for signatures. By now, using up all those fin-de-siecle purchase order pads seems ecologically justified as a means of SAVING paper... Amalyah Keshet ________________________________________ ?????: ??mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] ??? Deborah Wythe [deborahwythe at hotmail.com] ??????: ????? ???? 23 ??????? 2009 17:18 ????: mcn-l at mcn.edu ??????: [MCN-L] how paperless is your museum? We had a conversation this morning with the director about greening the museum and one of the things that came up was going paperless (where it makes sense -- I'm use to be the archivist, after all). He asked for some examples of museums who were doing it and doing it well. Anybody out there want to put their museum out there as an example of a (pretty much) paperless shop? What have you automated? Payroll? Personnel files? Purchase orders? Financial records? Loans? (I'm assuming that with CMS systems, a lot of object documentation is now paperless.) And a related question: anyone with a full-fledged electronic records program up and running successfully? I browsed this year's MCN program (how I wish it was searchable...) and didn't find any references to "paperless" or "electronic records." Thanks, everybody! Deb Wythe Brooklyn Museum deborahwythe at hotmail.com _________________________________________________________________ Windows 7: I wanted more reliable, now it's more reliable. Wow! http://microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/default-ga.aspx?h=myidea?ocid=PID24727::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WWL_WIN_myidea:102009 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer Network (http://www.mcn.edu) To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l The MCN-L archives can be found at: http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/
