News from BMC's Art and Artifacts Collections!
The creation of a comprehensive collections database for Bryn Mawr College’s Art and Artifacts Collections is underway!
This extensive, 18-month project is generously funded by the College’s Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics and History of Art.
The creation of this database entails the seemingly impossible task of taking 22,000+ records from fourteen different MS Access databases, cleaning them up, and then moving them ever-so-lovingly into EmbARK Collections Manager, a collections information system developed by Gallery Systems. All this, mind you, while also beginning data entry for the additional 40,000 collections objects yet to be cataloged.
Project staff, all members of the library's Special Collections group:
- Emily Croll, Curator and Academic Liaison
- Marianne Weldon, Collections Manager
- Cheryl Klimaszewski, Collections Information Manager
For more info on this project, visit the project blog.
Image:
Utagawa Kunisada II (1823-1880)
Murasaki Shikibu Genji Karuta
Color woodblock print
15 x 10 in.
Gift of Margery Hoffman Smith, Class of 1911 (S.67)
