[MCN-L] how paperless is your museum?

[Nina Simon]

Deb,

The Mattress Factory is hard at work at being a green museum, and they  
have blogged about their many efforts - from the galleries to the shop  
to membership to air conditioning - in this regard:
http://artyoucangetinto.blogspot.com/search/label/GREEN%20INITIATIVES

Nina

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Museum 2.0 - www.museumtwo.com

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On Oct 23, 2009, at 8:18 AM, Deborah Wythe wrote:

>
> We had a conversation this morning with the director about greening  
> the museum and one of the things that came up was going paperless  
> (where it makes sense -- I'm use to be the archivist, after all). He  
> asked for some examples of museums who were doing it and doing it  
> well.
>
> Anybody out there want to put their museum out there as an example  
> of a (pretty much) paperless shop?
> What have you automated? Payroll? Personnel files? Purchase orders?  
> Financial records? Loans? (I'm assuming that with CMS systems, a lot  
> of object documentation is now paperless.)
>
> And a related question: anyone with a full-fledged electronic  
> records program up and running successfully?
>
> I browsed this year's MCN program (how I wish it was searchable...)  
> and didn't find any references to "paperless" or "electronic records."
>
> Thanks, everybody!
>
> Deb Wythe
> Brooklyn Museum
>
> deborahwythe at hotmail.com
>
>
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