Lyon County Historical Society has new collection management system

In March, the Lyon County Historical Society received a Minnesota Historical and Cultural Heritage Small Grant of $9,500 for CollectiveAccess Data Conversion. The project, which consisted of data conversion from the former museum's system to CollectiveAccess, setup on the public site, training, and date cleanup, was completed this summer.
CollectiveAccess is an online, open-source-based collections management software available through the Minnesota Alliance of Local History. Organizations using the CollectiveAccess system have the opportunity to share as much or as little of their collection online as they wish. The benefit of sharing the collection online is that it becomes more accessible to researchers and the public.
Lyon County Historical Society has over 15,000 items from the museum collection cataloged on the system. Currently, over 200 are shared on the public site and more are added daily.
To see the public site and search through the collections that are already being shared, visit www.mncollections,org.