[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Accessions of rare books in AS?

[Christie Peterson]

Hello ASpace Users,

Are you using ASpace to track accessions of rare books, both purchased and
gifts?

We're in a moment of rethinking our workflows and tools for our rare book
acquisitions, and considering replacing the paper accessions log with
ASpace.

Since this is bibliographic material and ASpace is designed primarily for
archival/manuscript collections it's a bit of a shoehorn, but not, I think,
a ridiculous one. We would probably need some user-defined fields for
acquisition fund, for example, and we wouldn't require lots of the fields
we do require for accessions of archival materials.

So, if you are using ASpace this way, what has your experience been? How
did you need to modify it in order to bend it to this purpose?

Thanks in advance,

Christie Peterson


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Christie S. Peterson

Head of Technical Services for Special Collections
Smith College
Northampton, Mass.
413-585-2996
cpeterson at smith.edu

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