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Re: FileMaker to Access



FileMaker also works on PCs, so you don't even have to go to Access if you
don't want to. Our curator and I share a zip disk of acquisitions; I use a
PC, and he has a Mac.

Laura Botts
GA Music Hall of Fame
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex R. Toth" <tothalex@PACIFICU.EDU>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 1:21 PM
Subject: FileMaker to Access


> I would like to solicit the collective wisdom of the list with a
> question.  My predecessor built an "archives finding aid" using
> File Maker on a Macintosh computer.  Since that time, the University
> Information Services has begun the process of moving the entire campus
> off of the Mac platform and onto Dell PCs.  I would like to import our
> "finding aids database" into Access and avoid re-keying the information.
> Has anyone successfully completed such a transfer?  Does anyone have
> a cataloging template created in Access that he/she might be willing to
> share.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Alex Toth
> Social Sciences/Special Collections Librarian
> Harvey W. Scott Memorial Library
> Pacific University
> Forest Grove, OR
>
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