This from our Webmaster at Grinnell College.

Hope it helps.

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advice follows
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I would suggest using MS-Access - they have pretty good tools for such things.
But it would still require some knowledge, but not as much as "serious" databases.


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Dann Hayes
Grinnell College
Grinnell, Iowa

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> Hi,
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> I have a volunteer (may they ever be blessed) who is indexing our local newspaper- we want to take her notebook of information and put it in a searchable database- here's the problem- I don't have a clue how to do this- does anyone have suggestions for a database that doesn't require much knowledge on our part (the volunteer is older and not too computer literate) and can be searched by researchers but blocked in some way so they can't edit what's on the screen
>  
> thanks
> Nikkie
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> Nikkie Cooper, Curator
> Fort Morgan Museum
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