Hi,
I've worked at two places with Pastperfect, I mostly search with the people
and search terms field but often use keyword search as well. As for
training, I think it is one of the easier programs to learn. You may want to
look into finding high school/university age volunteers ( I know here in
Ontario High school kids need so many hours of volunteer work to graduate
and it looks good on their college apps. Maybe you could get museum studies
students as interns who are looking for some experience to work on it for a
few months. Hope this helps some.
Susan Gonzalez
Archivist
Holstein Canada
Brantford, Ontario
-----Original Message-----
From: Shannon Lindridge [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2006 12:00 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [MUSEUM-L] PastPerfect
For those of you who are using PastPerfect out there, which of the
research methods do you/your volunteers use the most?
My dilemma, we converted from FileMakerPro to PastPerfect going on two
years ago and the program is pretty much unusable do to the fact much of
the information did not end up in the correct field, somewhat scattered.
My plans were to have information entered into the people field and search
terms field, by volunteers, and have our reference room volunteers, most
are of retirement age, use the people field and search terms field for
performing research request for our patrons in our research library. I
thought this would be the easiest method for our volunteers to access the
information.
I have been hesitant to teach our reference room volunteers the program
for fear of them getting frustrated at not being able to find the
information they are looking for. I have thought of training them to do
dataentry, but they are usually to busy to perform dataentry while working
in the reference room.
My other dilemma/difficulty has been finding volunteers who are willing to
do dataentry.
I would appreciate any guidance, suggestions anyone can give on training
the "older generation" volunteer a new computer program, how to recruit
volunteers to do dataentry, and as stated before what research method(s)
most commonly used in PastPerfect. I have also cross-posted this message
at Pastime Software.
--Shannon
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