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[Apologies for duplicate receipts] Dear AT users and other interested folks, The AT Project Team is very happy to announce the release of version 1.5 of the Archivists’ ToolkitTM (AT), an open-source collection management / metadata authoring application funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The 1.5.0 version is available at: http://www.archiviststoolkit.org/downloads/download1.5.0.shtml . Source code and java docs are available on the AT website at: http://archiviststoolkit.org/forDevelopers/index.shtml The sandbox for version 1.5 is available at: http://archiviststoolkit.org/support/sandbox1.5.shtml or you can go directly to the 1.5 sandbox using the connection settings below: · Connection URL: jdbc:mysql://dev.archiviststoolkit.org:3306/ AT_SANDBOX1_5 · User Name: atuser · Password: cr4ckA1t New features added to AT1.5 include: Improved searching Support for combining resource records Customizable Rapid Data Entry screens Improved drag & drop (re-arrangement) tool Support for Java 1.6 And more: New stylesheets for HTML and EAD to PDF Improved Name import Printable and savable import / export logs Improved import / export of EADs Intermittent “Save” function Reloading of reports without closing the AT application Improved feedback throughout the AT application For more detailed information about some of these features see http://archiviststoolkit.org/support/New_Features_for_AT_Release1_5.pdf . Application bugs: The project team, with the assistance of many AT users, has identified and fixed many bugs over the last several months. The history of this activity is distilled in the AT 1.5 release notes located in the directory where the AT is installed. All bug descriptions and actions can be viewed at: https://jira.nyu.edu:8443/jira/secure/Dashboard.jspa . New bugs can be reported via the same tool or, preferably, by using the bug reporting function within the AT application. Thank you for your continuing interest and support. The AT Project Team: Brian Hoffman Arwen Hutt Lee Mandell Rachel Onuf Annie Ross Sibyl Roud Nathan Stevens Jason Varghese Brad Westbrook Sibyl Schaefer Roud Archives Analyst Archivists' Toolkit New York University [log in to unmask]