Adventures with MicroMARC: A Report on Idaho's Centennial Database

The Idaho State Historical Records Advisory Board obtained funding from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to provide statewide bibliographic access to manuscripts and archives. This paper describes the innovative features of that project, carried out by the University of Idaho library as subcontractor, including the integration of several off-the-shelf software programs into one process. The paper is slightly revised from a presentation to the Joint Conference of the Northwest Archivists and the Archives Association of British Columbia held at Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington, 2 May 1992. The author's attendance at that conference was made possible by a grant from the Hon. John Calhoun Smith Memorial Fund of the University of Idaho.