The McNay Art Museum Computer Media Inventory

The McNay Art Museum was the first museum of modern art in Texas, endowed by Marion McNay upon her death in 1950. It has been a popular institution in San Antonio since it first opened in 1954. I was asked to create a complete inventory of their digital media, a first for them. This includes both processed and unprocessed collections, which meant I got to go through their entire collection searching for the media. The information collected was put on spreadsheet in Excel for making assessments on whether these items need to be digitally preserved or thrown out. The inventory shows how much of each type of media they have in their collections, which will help the McNay with grant funding for digital preservation. None of that can be done without an accurate inventory to start from.