TY  - JOUR
AB  - The paper discusses information services which are being developed within the National Museums of Scotland (NMS), to support the Museum of Scotland Project. NMS has started to build a new museum in the centre of Edinburgh, to display its rich collections of Scottish material. It is due to open in 1998. The information needs of project teams are examined. A strategy for responding to the rapidly changing needs of project teams is described. The approach concentrates on developing a variety of information resources, which together meet the needs of users, and making some of them accessible throughout the organization as services on a data communications network. Internal services include collections databases, a collections management system for the Museum of Scotland Project, and the library catalogue online. External services include the development of a Scottish national database of museum objects, and access to the Joint Academic Network. The data communications network is described, and the management of the system is discussed.
VL  - 46
IS  - 3
SN  - 0001-253X
DO  - 10.1108/eb051346
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/eb051346
AU  - Burnett John
AU  - McClure Sheila
PY  - 1994
Y1  - 1994/01/01
TI  - Information services for the Museum of Scotland Project
T2  - Aslib Proceedings
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 75
EP  - 77
Y2  - 2024/04/23
ER  -