Personally, I like FileMaker Pro--relatively easy to use and has the
capacity to store images (as well as documents, etc.).

Art Harris

On 6/17/2010 9:22 AM, Andrea Burns wrote:
> Greetings, A graduate student intern is organizing and documenting
> the archives of a local boarding school. He is currently using a Word
> document to describe and catalogue everything he finds. Eventually,
> however, the school would like to produce a book based on their
> history, and I feel that the Word document will likely be a bit
> unwieldy for future researchers/authors.
>
> I was wondering if you might have suggestions on a simple database
> for this sort of work. Something like FileMaker Pro? Microsoft
> Access? Would PastPerfect work in this sort of situation? (There are
> some materials, such as photographs and blueprints, that we might
> want to include in this database, and it would be great for the
> database to have image upload capability).
>
> Thanks for your suggestions,
>
> Andrea Burns Assistant Professor, Department of History Appalachian
> State University 1072 Anne Belk Hall Boone, NC 28608 Email:
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> 828-262-7066
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