1. Hatching the EMu Update on Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Collections Management Project Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

2. Liz Rees Head of Archives & Collections Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

3. Background 13 sites 5 collection areas – Archaeology, Art, Ethnography, History, Natural Sciences 145 separate files 510,000 catalogue records

4. Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

5. Work Plan Start Up and Project Initiation (Complete by end of August 2008) Research & Costing (Estimated: end Dec 2008. Actual: Sept 09) Procurement Preparation and Procurement (Estimated: end April 2010. Actual Sept 10) Installation, Phased Data Migration & Policy/Procedure review (Estimated: end April 2011) Implementation (Estimated: end July 2011. Actual Dec 11) Project Closure (Estimated: end August 2011. Actual end March 2013)

6. Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums What we’ve achieved Single collections management system Templates for all collections areas Access for all TWAM staff - multi-user functionality

7. Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums Collections Online

8. Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums

10. Still to do…….. Enriching TWAM data on Emu Training and building user confidence ….Getting enough server space More interactive online experience