As I understand it, starting with Office 2000, Access came equipped with templates for linking the "contacts" or "address book" in OUTLOOK within Access; they would show up as a "linked" table. Access 97 does not have this feature, but a file you can download called wzmapi80.exe gives Access 97 this same capabilitiy.
Observations so far:
Useful links which help with this topic include Slipstick.Com and this Microsoft article.
. I also have included a Microsoft article regarding this, which you can read about here (it was derived from the previous link).