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work_4bg65qeuhjhszcahm6ikchwddm	Carole Prietto	Automating the Archives: A Case Study	1994	10	.pdf	application/pdf	5459	390	63	Abstract: The establishment of an archival automation program requires that the archivist assessment, selection of hardware and software to meet identified needs, redesigning archival tasks in light of the system selected, and ongoing maintenance of the system selected. The present article discusses the issues Washington University Archives staff the papers of the Working Group on Archival Description, reprinted in the American Archivist 52 and setting up the new software and training staff in its use, adding OCLC and NOTIS access to facilitate MARC-AMC The test collection was a group of audiotapes documenting Washington University's ongoing lecture program, the dBASE III+ for archives use. was assigned to investigate database management systems used in archival and manuscript repositories and make recommendations to the library. emerged as the best option for Special Collections use was dBASE III+. because it had a more user-friendly interface, could work with word-processing programs such as WordPerfect to create finding	./cache/work_4bg65qeuhjhszcahm6ikchwddm.pdf	./txt/work_4bg65qeuhjhszcahm6ikchwddm.txt