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Filemaker Pro Version 3 is a very user friendly but powerful relational
database to set up on your own. No limit to field size, you can put in
scrolling bars for fields of indefinable length. Easy to set up, make sure
you have the video for instructions though. Powerful enough for 300,000
records, I'm told or as powerful as your computer will allow.

Jennifer QCA



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>Clive et al:
>
>I used ProCite for a bibliographic project I was involved with six or seven
>years ago.  While I found ProCite easy to use, I often ran out of space
>within the specific fields we had set up.  This may no longer be a problem
>with newer versions, and your institutions may not be doing the extensive
>notes fields we were at the time, but you might want to compare the
>potential length of your records to what ProCite can handle.
>
>Lee Sorensen
>Duke University
>
>
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>>Clive,
>>You may want to have a look at ProCite.  It is based upon the MARC format,
>>is easy to import information (with the proper software), can be used by
>>multiple users (an option), has search only capabilities (to protect the
>>records), and produces customized reports/bibliographies.  It is also
>>available on different platforms.
>>
>>Good Luck!
>>Beth
>>
>>
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>>>                      RE>Artist books                              6/17/96
>>>We started ours on the INMAGIC package many years ago. When we installed
>>>our DYNIX system about three years ago, we uploaded with no difficulty. We
>>>still don't have more than a rudimentary record but INMAGIC is very
>>>capable.
>>>
>>>--------------------------------------
>>>Date: 6/17/96 11:48 AM
>>>To: Bob Foley
>>>From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSIO
>>>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>>>
>>>TO             :  ARLIS-L
>>>
>>>FROM           :  Clive Phillpot
>>>
>>>.......................................................................
>>>
>>>In recent travels around Europe I have come across an expressed need for
>>>a common database package which could be used by small archives and
>>>collections for constructing a catalog of artist books. It should be an
>>>elementary fill-in-the-blanks database that could be utilized by
>>>unskilled labor, but which could easily be translated into MARC if the
>>>collector or institution was able to do more sophisticated cataloging
>>>later.
>>>Either an off-the-peg database would do, or a customized database that a
>>>colleague would not mind sharing - with the possibility of its being
>>>adopted as a quasi-standard among small, often alternative, collections.
>>>I would be glad to hear from anyone in North America (or beyond) who
>>>coule offer suggestions.
>>>Many thanks.
>>>Clive Phillpot.
>>>
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>>Beth J. Dodd                                 Architecture and Planning Library
>>Curator                                      The General Libraries
>>Architectural Drawings Collection            The University of Texas at Austin
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>>512.495.4621                                 Austin, TX  78713-8916
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