Case Study: The Foundling Museum achieves flexible historical collection cataloguing with Soutron

Providing the Foundling Museum With a Library System For Their Historical Collection

The Foundling Museum needed a flexible library system to manage its extensive historical collection, which includes books, art, and music from the story of the Foundling Hospital and key figures such as Thomas Coram, William Hogarth, and George Frideric Handel. Soutron was selected to provide a cataloguing solution that could handle highly detailed records, customizable fields, and thesaurus control for the museum’s library staff.

Soutron supplied and hosts the catalogue, giving the museum web access to its collection while also supporting the system. The result is a highly adaptable catalogue that enables “extreme” cataloguing without requiring specialist IT support, helping The Foundling Museum maintain thorough records of its diverse collection.

The Foundling Museum

Katherine Hogg

Librarian