mmmm.... ephemera. ;-)
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College of Communication and Information, Florida State University
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On Mar 4, 2010, at 4:14 PM, Sweeting III, Floyd wrote:

> The Clearinghouse Records were disbursed, a lot of it was ephemera. The
> article I mentioned by Karen Parles in Spectra addresses what happened
> and why. I checked with Deborah Kempe, the Frick Art Reference Library's
> Chief of Collections Management and Access who said a few things may
> have been cataloged and incorporated into the library collection but
> that there is no way of designating what was in the original
> Clearinghouse.
> 
> Floyd Thomas Sweeting III
> Head, Information Technology &  New Media
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of
> Richard Urban
> Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2010 4:09 PM
> To: Museum Computer Network Listserv
> Subject: Re: [MCN-L] Repository of Collections Management related
> materials
> 
> Hi Robert,
> 
> The Smithsonian Archives is home to the MCN records,  and also hold
> records related to early automation efforts that the they were involved
> in.   You might see if they are interested in your materials as well:
> http://www.siarchives.si.edu/
> 
> Floyd, did the Clearinghouse end-up somewhere after ceasing operation?
> 
> Richard Urban, Doctoral Student
> Graduate School of Library & Information Science
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> rjurban at illinois.edu
> http://www.richardurban.net
> 
> 
> On Mar 4, 2010, at 7:46 AM, Robert A. Baron wrote:
> 
>> Dear MCN,
>> 
>> I seem to recall that in the early 1990s a well-known art library 
>> began to collect information related to the history and practice of 
>> collections management and automation.
>> 
>> Does anyone on this list know of any such collection efforts? I would 
>> like to donate my accumulated materials rather than disposing of them.
>> 
>> I have four or five boxes of such data including (among other works)
>> 
>> Data Models
>> Technical Reports (such as David Bearman's)
>> Systems analyses and projects created for key museums
>> Plans for image projects
>> Advertisements and related ephemera
>> Documentation of conferences and symposia
>> Materials related to intellectual property issues.
>> ...and much more.
>> 
>> For those on this list who may not know me, I worked in this field 
>> for approximately fifteen years, until about the year 2000.
>> 
>> If anyone thinks it useful, they are invited to consult my on-line 
>> CV, available <http://studiolo.org/cv.htm>HERE
>> 
>> Feel free to send this notice to other workers in this field.
>> 
>> /Robert A. Baron
>> robert at studiolo.org
>> 
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