Held in the attractive Nottinghamshire market town of Newark (or Newark-on-Trent to give it its full name) and dominated by the picturesque ruin of Newark Castle by the river Trent, the theme of this year’s annual Association of Independent Museums (AIM) conference was ‘How to be a great destination’. To give a flavour of this I thought I would share some notes from three different but absorbing talks: Bletchley Park Iain Standen, CEO of Bletchley Park Trust, and Hilary McHGowan,

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Vernon was selected over other collection management systems due to its user-friendly interface, high-level customer support and extensive scope for detailed documentation and information management.

Read about our attendance at the Summit for Technical Communicators in Denver and the American Alliance of Museums conference in New Orleans.

Vernon CMS was chosen as our preferred CMS for a range of reasons. We wanted a system that gave us the capability to expand our collection record keeping when we had capacity, but was still simple enough for day to day and immediate use, had strong reporting functionality and where system updates and support were readily available.