We have worked with the seattle children's museum to create an ACCESS
application that is working fairly well.  The strong points are the ability
to generate reporting statistics and confirmation materials very easily.
The weak point is the inability to view the filled and un-filled slots in
your tour schedule on one computer screen.   We are still using paper to
block out tour openings, but keeping most tour data in our database.

ACCESS also is farily easily to learn, so that us museum educators can
easily modify the program to fit changing needs after the initial
programmers have finished their contract.

Good Luck!

Ed Lambert
School Programs Coordinator
Museum of History and Industry
2700 24th Ave E
Seattle, WA  98112
(206)324-1685 x.14


At 3:53 PM 3/27/96 EST, you wrote:
>Would appreciate the advice of anyone on the list who has used some kind of
>computerized way of keeping track of scheduled museum tours.  Is there any
>software out there which is helpful?  Would you recommend it or are there
> problems?  We are presently on line, using a data base to keep track of our
>permanent collection, have a home page etc etc. Yet we are still using the
>old fashioned way of keeping track of tours.  Any suggestions?
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