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These records document the administrative activities of the Office of Information Technology, and its predecessor the Office of Information Resource Management (OIRM). Materials include the correspondence and memoranda of Vincent J. Marcalus, former OIRM Director, pertaining to management, budget, and special projects; OIRM Roles and Responsibilities Task Force report; planning and policy information pertaining to the PROFS Electronic Mail System, the Smithsonian Institution Bibliographic Information System (SIBIS), and the Collections Information System (CIS); project contractual agreements with computer technology firms; OIRM budget and funding proposals; committee and staff meeting minutes; and information on the OIRM Vision Project, Information Resource Center, and mainframe system.

Box 1 of 3

• Buyouts and Projects, 1994
• Collections Information System: Management Committee, 1994-1997
• Collections Information System: ManagementCommittee, 1992-1993 [two folders]
• OIRM Roles and Responsibilities Task Force, 1993
• OIRM Roles and Responsibilities Task Force, 1994
• OIRM Roles and Responsibilities Task Force: Final Report, 1994
• SIRIS Market Survey Report, 1995
• OIRM Systems Architecture Committee/Systems Architecture Survey, 1991-1992 [three folders]
• System Inventory File, 1991
• OIRM Vision Project, 1992
• OIRM Vision Project, 1993
• OIRM Vision Project, 1994
• OIRM Strategic Plan, 1992-1996
• OIRM Projects Completed, 1992-1993
• McFarland, Susan: "System Engineering Guidelines," 1998
• OIT Compliance Review, 2000
• Correspondence Tracking/Document Management Project, 1994-1997
• Data Standards at the Smithsonian, 1995-1997
• Dublin Core Working Group, 1998
• OIRM 1990-1992 Budget/Funding Proposals
• OIRM 1993 Budget/Funding Proposals
• OIRM 1994 Budget/Funding Proposals
• OIRM 1995 Budget/Funding Proposals [two folders]
• OIRM 1996 Budget/Funding Proposals [two folders]
• OIRM 1997 Budget/Funding Proposals

Box 2 of 3

• Collections Information System, 1984-1989
• Collections Management, 1983-1985, 1992
• PPS Implementation Committee, 1987
• MITRE Corporation, 1983-1984, 1991
• NASTEC Corporation Proposal/Contract: Information System Plan, 1989-1990
• Technology Information Products Corporation, 1988
• Smithsonian Payroll/Personnel System, 1988
• Smithsonian Payroll/Personnel System, 1989
• OIRM Information Resource Division, 1991
• OIRM Administrative LAN, 1988-1989
• Price Waterhouse: SI/NFC PPS Communications Study, 1988
• SIBIS Management and Planning, 1985-1987
• SIBIS Management and Planning, 1988
• SIBIS Management and Planning, 1989
• SIBIS Management and Planning, 1990
• SIBIS Management and Planning, 1991
• SIBIS Management and Planning, 1992
• Defense Contract Audit Agency, 1989-1991
• Collections Information System: History List and Requirements, 1984
• Information Requirements Analysis Project, 1983-1984
• Collections Information System: Planning and Policy, 1983-1984
• Collections Information System/RFC Contacts Log, 1984
• Collections Information System: Development at the Smithsonian, 1983, 1989
• Collections Information System: Sizing Project, 1984-1986
• Collections Information System: Checklists
• Collections Information System: Plan for the Acquisition of an Integrated, Generalized Collections Management Information System (original), 1984 [two folders]
• Financial Management Information System, 1983
• Price Waterhouse: Proposal for Capacity Measurement and Planning of IBM4381, 1988
• McManis Associates, Inc.: Advanced Technology Contract, 1988
• McManis Associates, Inc.: Information Resource Management Report, 1989
• Mendon Group, Ltd., 1990
• GEAC Replacement, 1989
• Information Support Services Division, 1988-1989
• OIRM Application Support, 1989
• Information Resource Center (IRC): Training Facility, 1990
• PROFS Electronic Mail System, 1990
• Scientific Applications Division, 1983-1984, 1989

Box 3 of 3

• Scientific Workstation Funding, 1988
• Information Support Services, 1984-1987
• Mainframe System, 1984-1985
• Bogucki, Michael E.: "Value-Added Services: A Consumer's Guide for Planning and Using Local Area Network Implementations" (1985).
• Smithsonian Institution Proprietary Security System (SIPPS), 1984-1985, 1988
• Automatic Data Processing, 1982, 1985
• Bar Coding Pilot Project, 1985
• Collections Management Action Support System (CMASS), 1985-1986 [two folders]
• CMASS: Statement of Problem, 1986
• Collections Information System Steering Committee, 1988-1990
• Connectivity in CIS, 1985
• Migration Planning Team, 1984
• Migration Planning Team, 1985 [three folders]
• Personnel Cost Projection System (PCPS), 1988-1989
• Information Support Services Division: LAN Implementation, 1989, 1991
• Information System Division: Personnel, 1989
• SNAP/RAP Member Participation Analysis Project, 1988
• PC Bibliographical System: Proposals, 1986
• PC Bibliographical System: Selection Panel, 1986
• SIBIS Replacement Project, 1992