Slides from a Pecha Kucha presentation given at the Fall 2013 MARAC meeting.

1. A Microsoft Office Alternative to Archivists’ Toolkit
Matt Strauss
Heinz History Center

2. Began in 1879
Western Pa. history

3. Processing has not
always kept pace
with collecting

4. Basic Processing
Grant awarded in
2011.
Introduced MPLP
processing to
backlog.
Provided additional
staff

5. over
600
amounting to
collections processed
2,130
linear feet
75%
in just 2 years
reducing the backlog by
Project Goals

6. Descriptive and administrative
information
MS Word finding aids, catalog
records, EAD Files

7. An important part of the
planned project…

8. …but there were
concerns from
the IT Dept.

9. Benefits of building a Microsoft
alternative
Already installed
Tons of online help

10. Even More Benefits:
Quickly and easily
built
No coding necessary
Applications play nice
with one another

11. Table view
55 Fields

12. Form view
Different tabs

13. Mail Merge
Finding aid
MARC
EAD

14. Pre-Merge
EAD MS Word
template

15. Post-merge

16. Copied into XML
editor

17. Some clean-up is
required

18. Built for collectionlevel description
Does not support
container lists

19. Helped to keep
project on track

20. Matthew Strauss
@mattdys
mstrauss@heinzhistorycenter.org