[Nhcoll-l] "Accession" software conversion

[Steve Halford]

Are you sure you're not dealing with Microsoft Access?   I lost a lot of
information when Access "upgraded" without being backwards compatible

Steve Halford (halford at sfu.ca)
Museum Technician (Retired)
Department of Biological Sciences
Simon Fraser University



On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 7:26 AM, Opitz, Cindy <cindy-opitz at uiowa.edu> wrote:

>  Happy New Year!
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> Does anyone have experience with software called “Accession”? A collection
> on campus databased objects on an iMac in the 1990s using “Accession”
> software and now has no access to the information. I’m not familiar with
> the program. The collection manager currently uses Past Perfect for a
> different collection and would like help figuring out how to retrieve the
> data from Accession for use in Past Perfect. Any ideas?
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> Cindy Opitz
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> Collections Manager
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> Museum of Natural History
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> 11 Macbride Hall
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> The University of Iowa
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> Iowa City IA 52242
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> 319-335-0481
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> www.uiowa.edu/mnh
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