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Gloria Creed-Dikeogu
  • The Past Perfected University archiving and
    small college libraries

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Past Perfect
  • Software created by Pastime Software Company in
    Exton, PA
  • Inexpensive software used by small museums and
    small libraries with archives and special
    collections

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Software Notes
  • Past Perfect is a back-end software in which you
    enter your records and digitized photographs
  • The front end of the system places your
    collections on the web and is called Past Perfect
    Virtual Exhibit
  • Customers may purchase software online from the
    vendor
  • The vendor offers training programs and software
    support to customers
  • Customers can call software support if they have
    questions or problems that needs solving

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Software Notes
  • The vendor website has a newsletter news
    releases about products, a customer list and a
    link to a customer discussion forum
  • Customer can download user guides for different
    versions of the product from the website
  • Software upgrades of 3.5 are available and can be
    uploaded from the vendor website along with the
    Virtual Exhibit Front End

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What can Past Perfect software help you to do?
  • Software aids small libraries to accession
  • Special Collections books
  • Collections of objects or artifacts
  • Archival Collections
  • Photographs
  • Small libraries can
  • Accession collections
  • Catalog Collections
  • Describe collections in
  • detail and include notes
  • and provenance
  • Digitize collections that are described

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Software pricing
  • Recently upgraded from 3.0 to 3.5 which was free
  • Libraries with very small budgets can afford this
    software
  • Currently small museums and libraries can
    purchase software Version 4.0 for 795
  • The virtual exhibit front-end costs 375
  • Upgrades to the newest system 4.0 cost 310 if
    you already have an older version of the product
    installed

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Past Perfect Tabs
  • Accessions Collections
  • Research
  • Memberships
  • Utilities
  • Setup

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Accessions Collections
  • This tab organizes the libraries collections by
  • Objects
  • Photos
  • Archives and
  • Library
  • Offers libraries the ability to make lists of
    items in temporary custody with other museums or
    libraries and checkout or in items for loan

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Research
  • This tab includes various searches that can be
    done on collections in objects, photos, archives
    or the library such as by
  • Keyword
  • Lexicon
  • People
  • Search Terms

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Memberships
  • We do not use this tab
  • It would be a very useful tab for small museums
    that keep membership lists and charge for
    memberships so that they can easily manage their
    membership lists and membership funding and
    information as part of the system

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Utilities
  • This tab allows libraries to do some of the
    following tasks
  • Backup their records to a server
  • Import or Export records
  • Re-index records after an upgrade

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Setup
  • This tab allows libraries to setup the following
    for use in the software
  • Function Keys
  • Security
  • Barcodes

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Licenses and Servers
  • The library currently has one license for
    software
  • Our records have been setup so that they are
    backed up each time we work on the system to the
    universitys server
  • If something happens to the laptop or there is an
    error or a problem with the software the
    software can be replaced on the computer and
    files can be pulled from the server

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