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Collections Management System for Historical Materials

  
Collections Management System (CMS) is a low-cost, standardized, accessible tool for repositories such as museums, archives, and historical societies, whose collections may contain both documents and artifacts, such as letters, newspapers, books, photographs, textiles, archaeological materials, furniture, and tools.

The CMS has been under construction for several years, with periodic reviews by ad hoc groups of interested parties.  It will be under indefinite development as an "open" system subject to change based on recommendations from users and available to all.  It runs under Microsoft Access '97, a widely used database program.  The "low-cost" involves ownership of the MS-Access program; the CMS itself is free.  Users should obtain some working knowledge of Microsoft Access to implement future changes and to make local refinements.

Demonstration files (cmsdemo.mdb and cmsdemdt.mdb) and program files (cms.mdb and cmsdata.mdb) may be downloaded as files cmsdemo.zip and cmsprog.zip respectively.