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The implementation of EMu has come to a successful conclusion at the Natural History Museum, London. Five departments - Mineralogy, Entomology, Palaeontology, Zoology and Botany - now manage their collections according to museum-wide processes, including a common loans system and object entry and acquisitions, as well as integrated multimedia. 3.2 million catalogue records exist in the system, with a staggering 13.7 million records in total. A three year phased implementation was required due to the complexity and the magnitude of the undertaking, which involved significant redesign and extension of several modules. The end result however is that the NHM has one of the most fully integrated museum systems in the world, and certainly the largest, with a standardised, centralised system to manage a vast quantity of the museum's collections. |