best field for recording appraised value

[Emily Troxell Jaycox <emily at mohistory dot org>]

I would be interested in the opinions/experiences of anyone who has used 
an existing field, or set up a new field, to record the appraised or 
estimated value of a volume separately from its purchase price.  

We have been using order records for new stuff since we brought up our 
acquisitions module in 2004, but I don't think retroactive order records 
for the 70,000+ volumes acquired between 1866 and 2003 is the answer.

We'd still like to know what we paid for a volume. But as a historical 
society founded in 1866, the purchase price seldom bears much relation 
to current price.  Our administration has expressed interest in a more 
systematized way of recording the value of the collection. And it seems 
that there ought to be a neat way to do this in Millennium.

Recommendations, pitfalls...?

Emily Jaycox
Missouri Historical Society
P.O. Box 11940
St. Louis, MO 63112-0040
emily at mohistory dot org
314/746-4508