NMNH Begins Automated Inventory

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Summary

The National Museum of Natural History begins an automated comprehensive inventory of the sixty million specimens in its collections.

Subject

National Museum of Natural History (U.S.)

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1979, p. 360

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

January, 1979

Topic

  • Automation
  • New Programs
  • Specimens
  • Inventory control
  • National Collections

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