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Collection management software - CALM, PastPerfect, TMS - any experiences?

My group at the Technical University of Denmark is looking at collection management software which also provides public access through the web. I would be very interested in hearing about any experiences with TMS, PastPerfect and CALM.

 

Thank you

Laila

 

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CALM and Millennium software
Submitted by Bruno Saraiva on August 11, 2010 - 6:25am.

Dear Laila

I've worked with DS CALM (the version for archives, but there's one for museums or libraries too) in 2007. It has several integrated modules for managing users, technicians, cataloging, opac, etc. The version I've worked with was a bit slow when dealing with thousands of records and the GUI was poor. I wouldn't recommend it, I believe there are better solutions. In 2008/9 I've worked for a year with Millennium software at University of Coimbra Libraries - it has museum and archival modules also. All I can say is that it was a good experience, easy to use, fast, with a fair user interface. I've tried other national software here in Portugal, but I don't know if it is available in other languages (Sistemas do Futuro, MatrizNet).

Hope this was useful.

Bruno

Bruno