Date: 24 November  2011 Pre-UKMW11 networking and drinks event, the Marlborough Arms, 36 Torrington Place, London, WC1E 7HJ from 5.30pm. Date: 25 November 2011 Venue: IWM London (find out how to get to IWM London) Tickets for UKMW11 are now on sale at http://ukmw11.eventbrite.com. The annual UKMW conferences, convened by the Museums Computer Group, have long been the place for high quality presentations... 

‘Go Collaborate’ MCG Spring Meeting in partnership with Culture24 – Brighton – 17th June Friday 17th June 2011 10am to 5pm (arrival from 9.30am) Lighthouse 28 Kensington Street, Brighton, BN1 4AJ Now – perhaps more than ever – is a moment for the museum sector to look outwards and see the opportunities for collaboration. At a time when the sector’s governance is... 

Since I’m not a member of the MCG Committee I’m allowed to say this: UK Museums on the Web 2010 was a great success. Not only because it had a record number of attendees in comparison to previous editions, but also because it gave museum professionals the opportunity to be informed and inspired in times that are tough and undoubtedly will get tougher still. Around the theme ‘Doing more with less:... 

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Presentations A day of papers, presentations and discussions concluded with an anniversary reception at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, the venue of the first ever MCG meeting 25 years ago.  Read More →

The MOL hosted a most useful day out for MCG members, to describe the definition and procurement of a new computer network and collections management software. The morning was taken up with presentations on the development of the museum’s IT strategy, outsourcing of IT services, and the procurement of Multi-MIMSY. The afternoon included a series of demonstrations of aspects of the package followed... 

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew The autumn 1995 meeting of the group took place at the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew. We were treated to a very broad range of talks and demonstrations covering a wide selection of Kew’s operations. First up, Ken Bailey explained the networking and hardware strategy at Kew, describing a dizzy range of impressive hardware (8 Novell servers, more than 800 PCs, 24 Macs,... 

From ‘Archive 1996 – what were we up to 20 years ago?’, the Spring 1986 meeting item ‘Visit to Computer Section and demonstration of database systems (Sepasal)’. ASK SEPASAL! For the past three years the SEPASAL unit has been collating information about plants from the dry tropics that have been reported to be useful (in any way) but that have not been commercially exploited... 

Bristol Museum and Art Gallery Agenda [The c1996 (?) note on the original MCG site said: 'This is only a partial record: an initial paper plus certain figures. If any members have retained more from the day please let us know. Figures are linked where present.'] Documentation and computerisation in the Museum Documentation…continued General documentation procedures Documentation project 1977-1981 Documentation... 

From ‘Archive 1996 – what were we up to 20 years ago?’, the Spring 1986 meeting item ‘Use of Status package on system so far developed’. Spring 1986 meeting Databases: STATUS, GENUS INDEX A VERY BRIEF GUIDE TO STATUS STATUS is an Information storage and retrieval package called by typing ISR on the computer. Within Status there are a number of different databases, which...