[LM_NET] TARGET: cataloging / tracking / scheduling system needed

[Brent Bradley <bsb_lib@YAHOO.COM>]

Hello LMNETters:

My libraries currently use Athena Multi-User from Sagebrush Corp, a fairly 
inexpensive cataloging system. Our tracking of equipment that circulates (TVs, 
cameras, laptops, etc) is currently limited to a paper trail. One option would be 
to simply catalog the items and track them, but I'd also like to be able to 
schedule their use. I'm looking for a solution that will solve both problems 
elegantly.

My own inclination, since I'm familiar with the product, is to use Filemaker to 
create a database that users access from the web to schedule use, but this won't 
tie into Athena. I'd need to do the separate transaction when users came to get the 
equipment (and enter the cataloging / scheduling info into two programs!). Am I 
looking for too much, or does something relatively inexpensive exist?

Thanks all!


"History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social 
transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence 
of the good people."
--Martin Luther King
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Brent Bradley
Library Media Specialist
Valley View Community School
Henry Wilson Memorial School
Farmington, NH
bsb_lib@yahoo.com

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