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Celebrating 40 Years of Innovation in Technology and Archives

MINISIS Management for Archives

MINISIS clients include thousands of users from over 40 countries from multinationals, governments, NGOs, and Not for Profits to academic institutions.

A random sampling of our clients include:

• Governmental Holdings: Library and Archives Cana-da, London Metropolitan Archives (UK), Truth and Rec-onciliation Commission

• Private Collections: The Historic New Orleans Collec-tion, ACCI—Cree Cultural Institute, Webster Institute

• Provincial and State Archives : Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, BC, Yukon, Alaska

• Financial Archives: TD Bank Archives, Bank of Canada

• Historical Societies: Historic New England, Rhode Is-land, New Hampshire, Ontario Heritage Trust

• Municipal Archives: City of Ottawa, City of Surrey, City of London (UK), Glengarry, King County, Perth County

• National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation

• Universities: Western, uOttawa, Manitoba, Ryerson, Philadelphia, Canterbury, Otago, Berzeit

Created originally in the 1970s, MINISIS technol-ogy was designed to promote innovation and social responsibility. Since 1972, MINISIS technol-ogy has continued to expand and be promulgated throughout the world, and has cemented itself as one of the world’s most complete and certi-fied archives, museum, and library software sys-tems. Bravely socially entrepreneurial in a world concerned about profits, MINISIS Inc. is unique, and maybe you owe it to your institution to think outside of the box? Work with us to make history together in archival information systems!

The Lions or the “Two Sisters”

Vancouver’s iconic scenery that serves as a reminder to our staff and clients to think outside the box and aim high!

OUR HISTORY

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Phone: 1-604-255-4366 Toll-Free: 1-877-255-4399Fax: 1-604-255-4367 E-mail: info@minisisinc.com

MINISIS Inc. Offices

MINISIS Inc. has staff in offices around the world including Port of Spain, Toronto, Tunis, and Michi-gan, with Official Headquarters in Vancouver, BC.

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WHAT IS M2A?

M2A is a completely integrated Archival System (IAS). At MINISIS we have taken our unique approaches to Rapid Application Development (RAD) and project management to a new level. As one of the leading inter-national vendors for Relational Database Management Software (RDBMS), we have developed a wide range of products to fit many needs in the archives and bib-liographic community. As the champions of the notion of “Appropriate Technology”, we have a complete solu-tion which includes: an internationally proven database engine, a complete and multi-functional collections management application, an Internet interface, and a generic toolkit to enable clients to stay current and see their archival applications progress and grow with future demands and desires.

Making use of the MINISIS RDBMS engine, the M2A application has captured the attention of small, medium, and large archives throughout the world. M2A was offi-cially released based off the MINISIS ADD product and designed with subject matter experts from the archival community. M2A has sought to fit the needs of any archives infrastructure. Through its easy to use graphic interface designed for a Microsoft Windows environ-ment, M2A is an ideal tool to allow almost any user in need of a strong archival tool to: enter, import/export, and manage hierarchical descriptive data in an organized and easy to manipulate fashion. We en-courage integration with other systems through XML, SOAP, ODBC link capabilities, and MARC importing. Meanwhile, integration to our other products including pre-defined applications for libraries, mu-seums, and self serve OPACs makes MINISIS a total IAS solution.

WHY M2A?

M2A is designed to be the total Integrated Archival Sys-tem to include everything from acquisitions/accessions through descriptions and authorities to countless pro-cesses including:

• Accessions / Ingestion

• Space Audit / Management

• Appraisals

• Processing

• Description

• Authorities

• Client Registration

• Order / Tracking / Request Processes

• Reproduction Management/DAMS

• Conservation / Treatment

• Enquiries / Repository Management

• Vital Statistics

• Media Management

….Plus countless reports including automatic creation of Finding Aids, linking/display of media files, EAD, MARC Import/Export, OAI, z39.87, and most ISO supported initia-tives to share data.

MINISIS is conversant in all archival and archival related standards from EAD, ISAD (G), ISAAR, DACS, Dublin Core, and RAD. MINISIS is also ANSI/NISO compliant and ISO 15489 for Records Management compliant. We also are Z39.87 metadata compliant for images and ISO 2709 and MARC21 compliant.

WHO IS M2A SUITED FOR?

Since the 1970s, MINISIS has focused on making M2A an ideal solution for:

• Academic

• Business

• Government (Municipal, Provincial/State, Federal)

• Church / Religious Orders

• Cross Cultural Applications (museums, archives,

libraries)

• Research / Historical Archives

WHEN IS IT TIME TO GET M2A?

Anytime is a good time to secure your copy of M2A. If your organization is struggling with your existing vendor, unsure of the future, worried about mergers, or frustrated with lack of support, then maybe now is the time. Together we can combine your subject matter expertise with MINISIS technology to create a sustain-able, successful and cost effective solution.

Be it the old version or the newest release, MINISIS technology will help you tackle your issues and be an example of spending wisely and maximizing all bud-gets of time, resources and money. If you have been looking for an easy to use, cost effective, and well sup-ported solution, then maybe it is your time to join the MINISIS international user community.

MINISIS M2A — MAKING ARCHIVES EASY, AFFORDABLE, AND RELIABLE…

Visit us online to learn more about what our software can do for you!

www.minisisinc.com

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