Filemaker is cross platform, and really easy (although the page layout tools are annoying) to set up.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of dhbailey Sent: Monday, February 13, 2006 3:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Finale] OT Library John Howell wrote: > At 8:47 PM +0100 2/12/06, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > >> On 12.02.2006 Johan Vercruysse wrote: >> >>> Let me first introduce myself. >>> I'm a music teacher in Belgium. >>> We would like to set up a small musical library in our school. >>> >>> Anybody have some tips how to organize it. >>> Anybody knows about simple software or database for such a score >>> library. >> >> >> Very good question. I don't have the answer, but I am interested >> myself, and would like to keep this on-list. >> >> Johannes > > > When this question comes up on other lists (ChoraList, OrchestraList), a > few proprietary software items are usually mentioned, but a large > consensus seems to feel that any of the generic databases that can be > set up flexibly is a better choice because they can reflect your own > needs of the moment and they can also be changed if those needs change > in the future. The disadvantage is that someone who is > computer-literate must set it up in the first place. Our music > department uses Filemaker Pro, which may be Mac only (as is out > Department), for our databases, and it's set up so that our secretaries > have no problems accessing and using them. > > Of course we also have the expertise for people to have written original > database programs for us that go far beyond any generic database. > > John > > FilemakerPro is also a windows program. -- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
