Copyrighted by the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. This Guide is designed to help you select and test the right data base management system for your arts organization. It will teach you what a data base management system does and how it can be useful in your agency. It also provides a set of criteria you can use to evaluate a data base management system.

Organizations began discussing the management of their information systems. It soon became clear that this idea, the professional management of local arts information systems, was of statewide significance. Further, for such a project to have any real value in Pennsylvania, it would need the statewide scope which only the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) could provide.

The purpose of this document is to provide arts agencies, and others, with the latest version of the National Standard for Arts Information Exchange. The National Standard contained in this document supercedes and replaces the Standard contained in the publication, All in Order: Information Systems for the Arts. The National Standard is a set of terms, definitions, and a set of principles for organizing and reporting information used by public arts agencies in their information systems.

Definition of terms used in the development of a computer system such as hardware and software. In the area of the application of microcomputers to the arts, one fact is clear: administrators look upon the selection, purchase and implementation of a small computer with all the confidence of a groom on his way to meet a mail-order bride. While far too much has been made of the need for computer literacy, most administrators find themselves ill-equipped to explore the infinite world of office or personal computers.

Definitions of computer terms are listed To hundreds of thousands of users of personal computers, the technical vocabulary surrounding the machines is as familiar as a sportscaster's language is to a baseball fan. But to those who are new to these machines, which many technology forecasters believe will someday be as common as telephones, the following glossary is meant as a help in the transition from novice to expert.

In response to new technologies, the National Film and Video Policy was created for the Canadian film industry. It defines complementary roles for the public and private sectors in film and video, roles which reflect their evolution over the last three decades and are adapted to the new environment. It calls for positive and stimulative measures to strengthen the public and private sectors in all their manifestations - production, marketing, promotion, distribution and exhibition. Such a comprehensive approach is demanded by the intricate interdependence of the various activities carried out

Software programs for the arts. The serial format was chosen over a dialogue format because the answers read somewhat more formally than they would have had all the parties been conversing in the same room. The content, nevertheless, is as timely and cogent as the editors had hoped. The responses give us different viewpoints from several of those who have been working for many years to develop programming that will bring arts managers solutions rather than problems. The Journal does not favor any of the programs mentioned by the respondents over any other that might be available in the

The author explores the use of computer systems to track efficiently the most likely audiences and supports. This paper describes the primary information needs and demands of arts organizations, what type of data formats will file those needs, and how the organizations can begin planning for the accompanying managerial structures. In 1982, when the author moved from Philadelphia to New York, she carried with her a three-year record of attendance at Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart festival. In Philadelphia, less than four blocks from the author's new residence, there existed another Mozart

The authors reviews the assumptions underlying economic analyses of art organizations, and than describe some of the principles and specifics of evolving market information systems for art organizations The objective task facing the manager of a not-for-profit art organization is to steer the organization along a path which is broadly dictated by an artistic mission, and in the process secure the resources required to sustain the organization.

This article deals with the efforts of The Art Museum Association of America in developing a software program (called Computer Software Project) for museum use. The Art Museum Association of America became interested in computer applications in art museums during 1981 as a result of conversations with members who had questions about the technology.