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<p>Thank-you William!</p>
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<pre>---<br />Amy McCroy
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<p>On 2016-02-24 15:01, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv. wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;"> PastPerfect is a great program, I quite like it; however, it is built on a no longer supported Microsoft database platform. It works fine now but there is always the chance that a Windows update or upgrade could break the program.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">William Shepherd<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">44 Robert Street West<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">Swift Current, Saskatchewan<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif; color: #1f497d;">Phone: 306-778-4815<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;">Jane, thank-you so much for your in-put, others have also mentioned PastPerfect!<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<pre>---<br />Amy McCroy<!-- o ignored --></pre>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;">On 2016-02-24 10:40, Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv. wrote:<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">I would suggest PastPerfect. While it isn't a "be-all" database (and isn't the best for Archival collections), it is a fantastic recourse for smaller institutions. Feel free to give me a call if you'd like to chat more about it. </span><!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;">Chilliwack Museum and Archives</span><!-- o ignored --></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: 'Verdana',sans-serif;">Does anyone have any information on a great data base for smaller museums? We are currently using Access and is very limited in what it can do. Any ideas would be very much appreciated! Thank-you in advance.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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