The University of Leicester Hosted and co-ordinated by the Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. Sponsored by The 24 Hour Museum and mwr Ltd . Building on the success of the inaugural conference in 2001, this one one-day event brought together leading practitioners, policy makers, training providers and commentators, to explore the issues related to building and providing web-based... 

The Fiona Marshall Special Edition LASSI After years of effort (or does it just feel that way?), LASSI (the Larger Scale System Initiative) has completed its task of specifying and selecting a collections management package on behalf of eight museums. And the winner is . . . MultiMIMSY. The LASSI consortium consists of the following museums and museum services: Horniman, Hull, Imperial War, Leicestershire,... 

From ‘Archive 1996 – what were we up to 20 years ago?’, the Spring 1986 meeting item ‘introduction to Kew and overview of computing facilities’. THE ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS OVERVIEW OF COMPUTING FACILITIES The Royal Botanic gardens (RBG) installed the Prime minicomputer during December 1983. The choice of equipment was made while RBG were still part of the ministry of agriculture... 

From ‘Archive 1996 – what were we up to 20 years ago?’, the Spring 1986 meeting item ‘Genus Index’. GENUS INDEX The RBG Genus Index is a database of genus names showing their validity and relation to other genus names, and the family they are in, all as perceived by RBG. It is written in COBOL end uses two Indexed files, one for the Families and one for the Genera. It is called by typing... 

From ‘Archive 1996 – what were we up to 20 years ago?’, the Spring 1986 meeting item ‘Cards’. Spring 1986 meeting Databases: STATUS, GENUS INDEX, REFS $$T $$N AUTHORS £AU Llanos_CM< $$ N TI_REF $PUBL_YR 1986< Maize. Its cultivation and development. Mundi-Prensa (1984) 318pp. 84-2114-142-6 (Es. ref at End of chapters) per Harb Abstr. 1986 56 (9) No2334 SST $$N...