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A Newsletter for Clients & Friends of Re:discovery Software, Inc. December 2007 Season's Greetings!
Happy Holidays to all
from Re:discovery Software!
We extend our very best wishes to you and yours for a
joyous and peaceful holiday season. We greatly value and
appreciate all of our client relationships and look forward
to providing the best possible customer service in
2008. To get things started in this edition of Re:discover!, here is a holiday movie trivia contest. Submit the correct answers to all three questions below and become eligible to win a $25 gift card from either Target, Starbucks, American Eagle, Home Depot or Urban Outfitters…winner’s choice! Please submit your answers by e-mail to sales@rediscov.com. Three winners will be selected at random from all correct entries received by 5:00 p.m. ET on Friday, January 4, 2008.
News and Notes About Re:discovery Proficio Following the successful release of ANCS+ version 8 to the National Park Service in August 2006, this year marked the anxiously awaited release of the standard version of Re:discovery Proficio.
Built with Microsoft's preferred database development software, Proficio’s intuitive user interface and powerful features make the job of managing museum and archival collections easier and more enjoyable. In short, Proficio sets a new standard for collections management software! Among the many great new features Proficio offers, here are a couple we would like to highlight in this edition of Re:discover!. Both help you to use the data you have captured in Proficio, and both will improve your productivity. Quick Report now includes an option to e-mail the report output in a variety of formats, including PDF and Excel. Coupled with another new Quick Report feature that supports the inclusion of an object’s image in the report output, both the quality of the information sent and the response time to requests for information from within or from outside your institution will be improved! Proficio’s List Pane makes it very easy to sort, filter or group the current set of records you are working with, as well as add those records to a new or existing Tag Set. But did you know that you can also export data in the List Pane, simply by clicking the File pull-down menu, selecting Import/ Export, and choosing the file type? Users can create Excel, PDF, HTML, XML or text file formats using this option. The image below is a PDF that was exported from the list pane using Re:discovery Proficio.
For those of you who will be upgrading to Proficio in 2008, please take note of the updated system requirements, by clicking on the link below.
National Park Service News ANCS+ 8.0 has now been “in the field” for more than one year. Overall, reaction to the new version has been extremely positive. We've received numerous compliments from users, remarking that ANCS+ 8.0 is “intuitive”, “easy to navigate”, and “user friendly”. Several callers have commented that as they use the program, they continue to find more new features that they really like. One happy customer even says that ANCS+ 8.0 has made life much easier – not every software application can claim that! We at RSI are very pleased that our hard work and years of development have produced a tool that our clients find helpful and easy to use. Much of the credit goes to our clients themselves, who are always our best source of ideas for improvements and new features. We’re not done yet, either. More new features are planned for future updates, so keep those ideas coming.
ANCS+ User Manuals The NPS Park Museum Management Program
in
Collections Management Report – How it Works Re:discovery’s Scott Stone
attended the recent NPS Museum Management Program Council meeting in
Tips for ANCS+ 8.0: Built In Filters Did you know that there are “built in” filters in ANCS+ 8.0? In the Navigator, click the + next to Catalog Records to view them. One particularly handy built in filter is “Count Fix”. If you’ve received a report from the National Catalog, identifying inconsistencies in the Item Count, Quantity, and Storage Unit fields, activate the Count Fix filter to find the problem records. Remember to apply the filter in both Cultural Resources and Natural History catalog records, to make sure you find and correct all the problem records. New Clients Recent additions to Re:discovery's client
list include the Musical Instrument Museum, Molex
Corporation, Cox Enterprises, Inc. and Nationwide
Insurance Company. Welcome all!
Georgia Association of Museums and Galleries
Conference To kick off our 2008
conference schedule, Re:discovery Software will attend next
month's Georgia Assocation of Museums and Galleries (GAMG)
Conference in Columbus, Georgia. Conference dates are
January 22-25. Please visit GAMG's web site http://www.gamg.org/newsandevents.html#Conference
for details. In addition to participating in the vendor
fair January 23-24, regional sales manager Keith Samuels
will also present Re:discovery Proficio as part of a conference
session on January 24. Stories Past Mark Freeman, a
long-time employee of Rediscovery Software, is now President of Stories Past, a web
design company. (Mark continues to serve Re:discovery as a
consultant, working on product development, upgrades and Rediscovery
for Internet implementations.) Stories Past focuses on creating
compelling, interactive web content based on each client's unique
educational mission. Mark’s clients include a number of small and
mid-size museums and state agencies with projects examining primary
historical and archaeological data, exploring a house museum and
historic landscape, and learning through art, objects and artifacts
(see portfolio at www.storiespast.com).
Re:discovery is partnering with Stories Past to offer its clients additional web content services. Please contact sales@rediscov.com for details.
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